EPIHHYSSA. 89 



The type is a discoloured spirit specimen, and the description 

 of E. nigrohaUeata is the moi'e typical. 



Both the size and the extent of the black and flavous coloration 

 of this female are said to vary to no inconsiderable extent. A 

 female of the maximum size, taken by Dr. Hanitsch at Maxwell's 

 Hill, Perak, during August 1908, has tlie abdomen broadly black- 

 marked ; it may belong to a different species. 



46. Epirhyssa carinifrons, Cam. 



E^nrhijssa carinifrons, Cauierou,* Manch, Mem. 1899, p. 131 (c?). 



A black and profusely red and flavous marked species, with the 

 abdomen black-banded and the frons longitudinally carinate. 

 Head black, with the palpi, the coarsely punctate and white-pilose 

 face, the impressed and centrally carinate frons (except centrally),. 

 part of the posteriorly rounded occiput, and the orbits flavous ; 

 clypeus nude, glabrous and apically transverse ; mandibles basal ly 

 red. Antenna' red, becoming infuscate and incrassate towards 

 their apices ; flagellum densely and obsoletely pitbescent. Thoracis 

 black, with a broad post-central metanotal band extending nearly 

 to the spiracles, the propleurte broadly above, and the prosternuni 

 pale flavous ; mesonotum with infuscate pilosity ; propleurte, 

 except above, impuuctate ; mesopleurse sparsely punctate, except 

 apically, with the callosities large, densely and elongately white- 

 pilose; mesosternitm coarsely punctate and smoother apically in 

 the centre ; metanotttm shallowly punctate and sparsely white- 

 pilose, its base smooth, with a broad and deep central impres- 

 sion. ScuteUum, as well as its carinas and the postscutellum, pale 

 flavous, the former coarsely punctate and elongately infuscnte- 

 pilose. the latter glabrous. Abdomen dark red, closely punctate 

 and, especially towards the brunneous anus, shortly infuscate- 

 pilose ; apices of the four basal segments flavescent and, except 

 the first, broadly black at the base ; petiole smooth. Legs fulvous, 

 with their bases paler and the tarsi infuscate ; anterior legs 

 flavescent ; hind coxae black, with their apices broadly flavous 

 centrally and their femora dark fulvous. Wings hyaline and 

 obsoletely fulvescent, with an infumate mark at the apex ex- 

 tending to near the radial cell ; costa and stigma testaceous red,, 

 nervures darker towards the radices. 



Length 11 millim. 



Assam: Khasi Hills (i?t)/7i»«v). 



Tijiie in the Oxford Museum ; the abdomen is lost. 



47. Epirhyssa maculicornis. Cam. (Plate I, fig. 4.) 

 Ejnrhyssa maculicornis, Cameron,* .Mancb. Mem. 1899, p. 1.']:.' { J ). 



A handsome flavous species, with black but no fulvous markings, 

 and the wings apically clouded. Head flavous, with the occii)ut 

 centrally, vertex transversely, and the closely but feebly punctate 

 frons quadrately, black ; clypeus laterally glabrous and centrally 



