EPHIALXES. 17<) 



10 (7) Me5otli:)rax immaculate. 



11 (12) Face stvoiiirly and uniformly punc- 



tate ; hind lenuira black tinctipcnnis, Cam., p. 184. 



13 (11) Face finely and, in centre, obsoletely 

 punctate ; hind femora red. 



13 (14) Scape, not prouotum, pale ; terebra 



shorter than body lom/iven/n's, Cam., p. 185. 



14 (13) Prouotum, not scape, pale ; terebra 



longer than body latinnnidutus, Cam., 



[p. 185. 



120. Ephialtes nigritarsis, Cam. 



Ephialtes nigritarsis, Cameron, Maucb. Mem. 1890, p. 148 ( S). 



S . A flavous species Avitli black markings, the mesonotal 

 Dotaiili very deeply impressed and the niotanotiun punctate. 

 Head smooth, with the face nitidulous and feebly punctate ; frons 

 broadly, the vertex above, occiput and mandibles, black ; the last 

 basally, and the palpi, flavous ; epistoma subproniineut and 

 laterally black. Antennce black and nearly as longj as the body, 

 with the scape flavescent beneath and the flagelluni basally piceous. 

 Thorax nitidulous ; central lobe of luesonotuni pyriform, elevated 

 and distinctly separated from the lateral lobes, all three centrally 

 black ; propleune glabrous, with their apices and base of mesopleurae 

 ohsoletely puuctate, the latter and the sternum broadly black ; 

 metauotum strongly punctate, with its apex subglabrous and its 

 base elongately impressed ; metapleuros somewhat strongly punc- 

 tate, more finely basally above, with the basal impression black. 

 iScuteUum and postscutellum glabrous. Ahdoinen smooth, -with the 

 second aud third segments distinctly impressed transversely, 

 sti-ongly ])uuctate centrally and laterally rugose ; the first broadly 

 impressed centrally, and the two following transversely impressed 

 beyond the centre and obliquely on either side ; all the segments 

 centrally black, with the third broadly black only at the base, and 

 the colour most extensive on the fifth and sixth segnjents. Leqs 

 flavous, with dense and elongate white ])ilosity ; hind tarsi, the 

 apices of their tibiae and of their coxa), black ; calcaria stramineous. 

 Winrin hyaline and basally subfulvescent ; costa and stigma infus- 

 cate, and internally paler; areolet trausvei'se, receiving the re- 

 current uervure at its apical fourth, and having its external 

 nervure curved. 



Length 16 millim. 



Assam : Khasi Hills (Itothnei/). 



T)jpe in the Oxford Museum. 



121. Ephialtes nigromaculatus. Cam. 



Ephialtes nii/roincicnhdus, Cameron, Maneh.Mem. 1890, p. 150^ J ). 



$ . A flavous species with black markings, and iho metanoluni 

 entirely glabrous. Head flavous, with the vertex hro.-ully in the 



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