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thoughoiit with griseous pilosity. Abdomen evenly and somewhat 

 strongly ])unctate; of d lianlly (lei)lanate, double the length of 

 the liead and thorax, hardly narrower tlian the latter and cylin- 

 drical, with the incisures subtestaceous ; of $ deplanate, fully 

 as long as head and thorax and subcylindrical ; apices of the seg- 

 ments" elevated, shining ; basal segment laterally margined, with 

 its base exca\ ate and carinate to the centre ; terebra half the 

 length of tlie abdomen. Legs somewhat stout ; the anterior pairs 

 with the coxaj and trochanters black and usually ihivous be- 

 neath, tibiie and tarsi flavidous, with a paler band before tlie base 

 of tlie former ; posterior tarsi white, with the apices of the joints 

 nigrescent ; hind coxa3 and trochanters black or badious, usually 

 with the apices of the latter flavons, their femora always fulvous : 

 tibise black, with a white band before the base and nearly always a 

 red band before the apex ; hind tarsi with the apical joint thrice 

 as long as the penultimate and the claws simple, not basally 

 lobate. Winfjs normal and usually slightly clouded ; stigma 



Fig. 38. — Itopleciis alicrncnts, G>-ay, 



piceous Avith the base paler, radix and tegular piceous or strami- 

 neous ; areolet irregular, subsessile ; ner\ ellus intercepting far 

 above tlie centre. 



Length 5-10 millim. 



Kashmir, 5000-6000 ft., v. 1901 {Col. Nurse). Punjab: 

 Simla, ix. 1898 and vii. 1901 {Nvrse, E. V. Stchhwg). 



This species has a known distribution throughout nearly the 

 whole of Europe, but Dalla Torre gives no eastern localities for 

 it ; it is very abundant in Britain, where two distinct forms occur 

 with equal frequency ; the typical has the metathoracic s])iracles 

 circular and the other (var. sj)iracidaris, Mori., Ichn. Brit, iii, 

 p. 10(5) has them distinctly oval. It is to the latter form that the 

 Indian insect is referable ; and it also differs from the more com- 

 mon European one in having no rufescent coloration on the hind 

 tibia), though I have seen similar specimens from Yorkshire. 



Dr. Chapman has given some interesting notes on the economy 



