EUGALTA. 



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closely and evenly reticulate, Avith sparse and infuscate pilosity ; 

 metapleurse closely reticulate, basally deeply canaliculate below. 

 Scutellum and postscutellum closely punctate, the latter but 

 slightly depressed basally, with the depression strongly striate 

 laterally. Abdomen black, with the base and apex of the first, 

 sides of the second apically, apex of the fifth and sixth narrowly, 

 and of the seventh segment broadly, flavous ; petiole trans-rugose, 

 second segment strongly and closely punctate ; second to fourtli 

 ventral segments testaceous; terebra G millim. Ler/s black, with 

 the front cox?e anteriorly, and the anterior femora and tibi», 

 white ; intermediate coxa3 white, except laterally at the apex ; 

 hind legs fulvous, with tibiae and tarsi paler ; their coxa? broadly 

 in the centre, apical three-fourths of their femora and most of 

 their tibiae, base of the former and apex of their trochanters, black ; 

 apical tarsal joint infuscate. Wings hyaline and iridescent with 

 the nervures and stigma black ; radix and tegulae white. 



Length 11 millim, 



Assam : Khasi Hills (Rothney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



36. Eugalta linearis, sp. n. 



c? 2 . A black and white species, with the scutellum immaculate 

 and the femora alone rufescent. Head black, subcubical, and 

 posteriorly as broad as the entire eyes ; vertex broad and glabrous, 

 with a few isolated punctnres ; occiput distinctly bordered above ; 



palpi and face to above the an- 

 tennae flavous, latter obsoletely 

 punctate; clypeus and the obso- 

 lete cheeks ferruginous, mandibles 

 black. Antennce filiform and 

 slender, with the basal joints 

 strongly elongate, black, with a 

 ten-jointed central band and the 

 scape beneath white. Thora.v 

 black, '\vitl\ the prothorax.a large 

 callosity before and beneath the 

 radix, and the entire apex of 

 the mesopleurae narrowly, white ; 

 mesonotum densely and ii'regu- 

 larly punctate, metathorax evenly 

 scabriculous, with no trace of 

 areae ; spiracles oval and minute. 

 Scutellum deplanate, nitidulous, 

 sparsely and feebly puiictate, en- 

 tirely black. Abdomen sublinear 

 and dull, with all the segments, 

 M ith the exception of their flavous 

 apices aiul the flavous base of 

 the first, distinctly and finely punctate ; basal segment centrally 

 scabriculous ; terebra straight, slightly longer than the body. 



Fig. 15. — Eugalta linearis, Mori. 



