EXERISTES. 15)9 



thorax smoutli and sliining ; a narrow pronotal line, callosities at 

 radices and an irregular central mark at base of tlie mesopleura?, 

 pale tlavous ; nietatliorax with long pale hairs, closely and strongly 

 punctate, except at the centre and apexoL' nietanotuni. Scutelluni 

 and postscntelluni, except a longitudinal line on basal halt ot" the 

 former, pale tiavous. Abdomen rut'o-testaceous, with the six basal 

 segments closely and strongly |)unctate ; a broad line posteriorly 

 dilated centrally at the apex ot" the tirst segment, a broader line 

 extending nearly to the centre and subdilated centrally and 

 laterally on the second, narrower lines on the third and fourth 

 segments, and the two apical segments entirely, black ; tcrebra not 

 quite as long as abdomen (6 millim.). Legs : anterior i)airs pale 

 tiavous with the femora testaceous behind : hind legs ruto-fulvous 

 throughout. Wiii(/s hyaline, with the stigma and nervnres black ; 

 tegulae pale tiavous ; areolet oblique and sessile, emitting the 

 recurrent nervure from its apex. 



Length 11 millim. 



SiKKiM (Bijir/hani). 



Unknown to me. 



136. Exeristes leucostoma, Cam. 



Charitupimjj/'j Icncosfoma, (Jaiueron, Tijds. Ent. 1907, p. 97 ($). 



2 . A black species, with stramineous markings. Bead smooth, 

 with fulvous pubescence; face, except a line on its apical two- 

 thirds, clypeus, except a large apical piceous mark, mandibles, 

 except at apex, and the palpi, stramineous. AiUennce with the 

 two basal joints Havous beneath and the tiagellum with dense 

 stiff pale pubescence. Thora.c smooth, \a ith fulvous pubescence ; 

 a line on the apical half of the pronotum and the I'adical callosities 

 stramineous ; metathorax sparsely punctate, except at the centre 

 and apex of the metanotum. /Scutelhim and postscutellum 

 stramineous. Abdomen strongly and closely punctate with the 

 anus smooth; central segments laterally flavescent ; the four 

 basal segments rufo-testaceous with the apices of the second to 

 fourth narrowly black ; renuiining segments black, with the a|)ex 

 of the sixth, most of the seventh and two transverse spots on the 

 fourth, pale flavous ; terebra as long as the abdomen (5 millim.). 

 Anterior legs pale llavous, with the fenjora somewhat darker. 

 Wings hyaline, with the nervures and stigma black ; tegulaj 

 stramineous ; areolet shortly but distinctly petiolate. 



Length iJ millim. 



SlKKiM (Bingham, tvpe) ; Ceylox : Kandv, vii. 09 and ii. 10 

 (B. E. Green, 0. S. Wiclcwar). 



In the three Ceylon specimens the head and thorax are very 

 strongly nitidulous and very sparsely, though distinctly, punctate 

 and pilose, with the notauli line ; the scrobes are large and extend 

 nearly to the ocelli ; the face is exactly quadrate and, like the very 

 strongly discrete clypeus, entirely pale stramineous ; the cheeks 



