EPnrALTES. 



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base; flagellum filiform throughout, extending to centre oF abdo- 

 men. Thorax with a small pale callosit)^ before radix and a red 

 spot at base of meso])knuve ; mesonotum strong^ nitidulous, with 

 short black pilosity, longitudinally coalesced punctures, and the 

 notauli reaching the centre ; mesopleurae and their sternum 

 nitidulous and finely though distinctly punctate, sternauli wanting; 

 metathorax with no areae, finely punctate and shining, with the 

 pleurae rougher and somewhat didl, the disc feebly bicarinate at 

 extreme base only ; lateral costae entire, spiracles small and oval, 

 apophyses wanting. Scutellvm black, nitididous, subdeplanate, 

 with sparse punctation and black pilosity. Abdomen immaculate, 

 parallel-sided, fully twice as long as, though not broader than. 



Fig. 42. — Ephialtci mdipcnnis, Mori. 



the thorax, scabrous, with the segmental apices nitidulous ; first 

 segment fully twice as long as broad and hardly constricted 

 basally ; thyridii of the second deeply impressed and extending to 

 centre ; segments two to five longer than broad and laterally 

 subincrassate in the centre, though hardly tuberculate ; terebra 

 nearly half as long again as the body (30 millim.), distinctly ami 

 shortly pectinate throughout and apically defiexed. Ler/s elongate, 

 clear red, with the hind tibiae and tarsi blackish, their claws curved 

 and strongly lobate basally. Wi)ti/s- subhyaline and somewhat 

 narrow ; areolet triangular and subscssile, nervelet wanting ; 

 stigma blackish, radix and tegular llavescent ; lower wing with 

 basal abscissa of radius half as long again as the second recurrent 

 nervure : nervellus sliglitly postfurcal and intercepted a little 

 above the centre. 



Lenr/th, cT 12, $ 23 millim. 



Punjab: Simla, vii. !)7 (CoJ. Knrse) ; Tenassemm (Doherl't — 

 Ind. Mus.). 



Ti/pe in Col. Nurse's collection. 



