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45. Epirhyssa flavolDalteata, Cam. 



Epirhyssa Jlavobnlteatn, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 129 ( $ ). 

 Epirhi/ssa niqrobaltenta, Cameron,* Joiirn. Str. Br. R. Asiatic Soc» 

 1908, p. 134; cf. Ann. Nat. Hist, xx, 1907, p. 16. 



A fulvous species, with flavous markings, and the apices of the 

 wings and antenna) nigrescent. Head fulvous, with the apical 



half of the frons and the whole 

 of the closely punctate and white- 

 pilose face flavous ; vertex pos- 

 teriorly rufescent ; clypeus short,, 

 with its apex laterally rounded 

 and the base trilobate, the central 

 lobe being curved and tlie lateral 

 ones smaller and much more 

 deeply impressed ; mandibles 

 short and broad, with the apical 

 half black and the basal rufescent; 

 palpi stramineous. Antenna; 

 dark red, nigrescent towards their 

 apices, with the scape flavescent 

 beneath. TJio ra x Havescent, with 

 the mesonotum strongly striate,, 

 dark red, and its disc centrally 

 black, its central lobe elevated, 

 flavous-marked and apically per- 

 pendicular ; propleurse piuictate 

 with the basal half smooth and 

 black ; mesopleurae apically black 

 with two oblique nigrescent bands ; mesosternum closely and 

 strongly punctate ; metanotum evenly rounded, with shallow 

 and distinct punctures, centrally deeply canaliculate, basally black, 

 shining, centrally broadly impressed and carinate on either side, 

 with the apex black and subimpunctate ; metapleurse black and 

 impressed at base and apex, carinate below the spiracles. 

 SciiteUam and postscutellum flavous ; the latter basally bifoveate, 

 the former transversely strigose and apically black. Abdomen 

 dark red, with apices of all the segments broadly flavous ; tvvo 

 basal segments feebly and isolatedly punctate, the central ones 

 much more closely and strongly, and the remainder closely 

 but less distinctly and densely infuscate-pilose ; terebra distinctly 

 a little longer than the body. Legs flavous, with the femora 

 fulvescent and the hind coxae darker ; tarsi nigrescent. Wings 

 fulvescent-hyaline, with the stigma testaceous red, the nervures 

 infuscate and a subapical infumate fascia ; fenestra of second 

 recurrent uervure large. 

 LenglTi L'3-22 millim. 



Assam : Khasi Hills (liotJineg, type). Malay States : Perak 

 (Dr. Hanitsch). BoKNEO. 

 I'g^ie in the British Museum. 



Fig. 111. 

 Epirhyssa Jia vohalfcata. Cam. 



