PSEUDErCALTA. 



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Fig. l-i.—Pseiidcuaalta sjiiiiosa, Cam. 



30. Pseiideugalta spinosa, Cam. 



JEuf/alta spinosa, Cameron* Maucli. Mem. 1899, p. 139 ($), 



Bead plumbeous black, with the face, inuer orbits to ocelli, outer 

 orbits at their lower two-thirds and the palpi, flavous ; frons aud 

 vertex smooth, impunctate and subglabrous ; postocular orbit* 



red-marked ; face and clypeus 

 smooth, the former nitidulous- 

 and sparsely infuscate-pilose, the 

 latter rufesceiit, with its apical 

 two-thirds de])ressed, the apex 

 laterally rounded and centrally 

 broadly excavate ; mandible's 

 black, with the base red. An- 

 tennce black, with a broad 12- 

 iointed band beyond the centre 

 white ; scape black beneath, with' 

 fulvous pile ; flagellum densely 

 and obscurely pubescent. Tliorax 

 dark red, with most of the pro- 

 pleurae, base of the mesonotum, 

 the metanotum and the apical 

 half of the metapleurae, black; 

 mesonotum closely punctate and 

 densely infuscate-pilose, with ihe 

 sides of the raised apical lobe irregularly striate and the depressed 

 basal part transversely striate ; propleurte glabrous and nitidulous, 

 punctate above; mesopleura? closely, the callosities coarsely, 

 punctate, the base strongly striate above and the apex centrally 

 glabrous ; mesosternum shining, with elongate white pilosity";; 

 metapleura) rugosely punctate, becoming reticulate apical] y and 

 beneath the radices. SciUeUum and postscutellum punctate, the- 

 former with elongate infuscate pilosity and the latter apicallv sub- 

 glabrous, with neither its base depressed nor sides margined ; 

 lateral scutellar foveas strongly striolate. Abdomen black, with all 

 the segmental apices and base of the petiole flavous ; first segment 

 basally rugose and apically smooth, with a curved, basally broad and 

 apically acuminate spine near its base below ; remaining seo-ments 

 closely punctate; terebra reflexed and a little longer than the 

 abdomen, with the valvuloe densely and shortly black-pilose. Legs 

 stramineous, with the anterior coxie and femora black-lined ; hind 

 coxa? above, trochanterellus, femora and apical half of their tibia?. 

 black ; hind calcaria and tarsi pure white, the two apical joints 

 of the latter infuscate. Wiiuis fulvescent hyaline ; stigma and 

 nervures black ; areolet small and subpetiolate, emitting the 

 recurrent nervure at its apical third. 

 Lenqth 19 millim. 



Assam: Khasi Hills {liotlmey, type); Siickim, iv. 91 (B'nuj- 

 ham). 



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