182 iciixErMo.viD.r. 



throughout. Thorax with a hiiear ilavescent luark before tlie 

 radices ; notauU not reaching the centre of the nitidulous nieso- 

 notum : mesopleura) somow liat closely and tinely punctate, with 

 the lateral sulci large and their region entirely glabrous, sternauli 

 wanting; metathorax scabrous, with the pleuriB finely punctate 

 and smoother, its disc indistinctly bicarinatc basally ; spiracles 

 subcircular. Scuiellum black, subconvex, shining and not closely 

 punctate. Ahdomen immaculate, cylindrical, fully as broad as the 

 thorax, and twice the length of the head and thoi\ax ; basal seg- 

 ment not strongly elevated, longitudinally bicarinate to its centre 

 only; second obli(|uely impressed to its centre : the intermediate 

 segments not longer than bi-oad, laterally strongly tuberculate, 

 with their apices hardl}- smoother ; terebra hardly longer than the 

 body, with the valvuke pilose and somew hat stout. Legs normal 

 and red, with the ])Osterior tibia; and tarsi blackish ; apical joint 

 of the hind tarsi thrice as long as the penultimate, and all the 

 slender claw s basally lobate. Wim/s siliceous ; stigma ferru- 

 ginous, radix and tegulae ochraceous ; areolet sessile and sub-irre- 

 gularly triangular ; lower m ings with the basal abscissa of the 

 radius nearly half as long agaiu as the second recurrent nervure ; 

 nervellus slightly postfurcal and intercepted distinctly above the 

 centre. 



LeiKith 12 millim. 



PuxJAB : Simla, iv.97 {Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Xurse's collection. 



I have seen a single $ of this species in Col. Xurse's collection, 

 which had been identified by Cameron as a small form of E. iri- 

 dipennis, from which, however, it very materially differs in the 

 very much stouter and more strongly tuberculate abdomen ; and, 

 in fact, it is very nearly allied indeed to Thomson's E. heto'ojms, but 

 the abdomen is more closely punctate, with more acute tubercles, 

 the basal segment is much stouter and subparallel-sided, tlie hind 

 legs are apically black aud the radial abscissa of the hind wings is 

 distinctly a little shorter. 



124. Ephialtes iridipeiinis, sp. u. 



EpliiaUes iridijjennis, Cam. MS. ($). 



(5 5 . A large linear black species, \\\{\\ dark stigma and obsolete 

 tubercles. Bead immaculate, posteriorly buccate, but hardly 

 broader than the eyes ; vertex nitidulous and obsoletely punctate, 

 somewhat broad behind the ocelli and with the occiput centrally 

 emarginate ; face nitidulous and slightly elevated longitudinally in 

 the centre, with small sparse punctures and griseous pilosity; 

 clypeus rufescent, not broad, centrally depressed aud punctate, 

 not laterally produced, but triangularly impressed before the apex ; 

 mandibles broad, obsoletely punctate, basally rufescent and ceu- 

 •^rally canaliculate towards the apex; palpi testaceous. Antennas 

 obsoletely pilose and entirely black ; scape excised nearly to its 



