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ceuti-ally nitidiilous : propleurii3 strongly shagrerned and finely 

 sti-igost'" towards their apices ; niesoplenne sharply carinate ba.sally, 

 broadly and obliquely elevated centrally, closely punctate, basally 

 canaliculate and feebly punctate, with the up|)er part at the apex 

 glabrous and the lower finely and closely striate longitudinally, 

 the extreme apex glabrous behind the creuulation ; luetapleura; 

 closely and longitudinally strigose, becoming stronger apically. 

 fScuteilum fiavous and slightly incised roundly at its apex, with 

 large scattered punctures on its basai slope, and strong rugose 

 ones on its oblic|ue apical slope ; postscutellum basally oblitjue, 

 centrally aitidulous and obsoletely strigose, with its lateral 

 impressions broad, deep and obscurely crenulate. Abdomen black, 

 banded with white ; first segment strongly punctate basally, 

 distinctly aciculate laterally, with the following segments closely 

 and uniformly punctate; petiole centrally and subdivergently 

 biplicate beloA\- at the base, and finely strigose transversely at the 

 apex; terebra 3 milliui. in length. Legs: anterior pairs stra- 

 mineous, the base of the front coxie, the intermediate coxie 

 and base of their trochanters, excepted : hind legs black, with a 

 broad baud before base of their tibite stramineous. Wuir/s uni- 

 formly f ulvescent-hyaliue ; stigma and nervures piceous ; areolet 

 oblique, coalescent above, emitting recurrent nervure beyond its 

 centre; radius apically refiexed ; ner\ellus intercepted at its 

 upper fourth. 



Length 15 millim. 



Assam: Khasi Hills {liotJuieii). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Cameron is a little vague respecting the coloration of the wings 

 and legs ; the former he at first terms fasco-li)jalhiis, presumably 

 throughout, and later " hyaline, the basal half suffused with 

 fulvous," w inch is a strange combination : of the legs he says 

 pedibus anterioribus hasique tibiarum poiiticaram late Jiavis, but 

 later " the hinder legs black, except the basal half "' : nor are 

 colour details of the abdomen, which is wiinting in the type, 

 indicated. 



141. Exeristes pulchrimaculata, Cam. 



I'iiHjila pulclirimacithttd, Ciuneron,* Mancli. Mem. 1897, p. 20 ( 5 )• 



5 . Black and broadly flavous-marked. Head glabrous and 

 nitidulous, fiavous, with the occiput broadly, the frons transversely 

 and a band comiecting it with the concolorous ocellar region, 

 black ; p:ii[)i testaceous. Antennm immaculate and nearly as long 

 as the body. Thorax black ; pronotum with a narrow fiavous 

 border and the propleura" basally concolorous ; mesonotum with 

 two central and gradually dilated stripes, extending from the radices 

 to the anterior margin, ilavous; a large mark on the mesopleurae, 

 constricted below, fiavous ; mesosternum fiavous before the inter- 

 mediate coxae ; metathorax laterally broadly and sinuately, and the 

 apophyses, fiavous, with a centrally constricted discal black 



