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present genus are entirely homogeneous and at once known from 

 those oF allied genera by tlieir elongate and narrow abdomen, 

 simple tarsal claws, circular metatlioracic spiracles, evenly sculptured 

 and excarinate metauotnm, elongate t^rebra and the comparatively 

 constant shape of the normally entire areolet. Unlike the PaW- 

 arctic representatives, all our Indian species are brightly marked 

 and banded with flavous, and so much attention is paid to these 

 decorations in descriptions that few structural details upon which 

 to found a table of the species have been cited. The following 

 may, perhaps, serve, though it should be worked with the table ot' 

 fSt/zet(ctns, as intimated above. 



Table of Sj)ecies. 



1 {2) Metiipleurte with no cariuoB ; areolet 



irrefiular brevicanda, sp. n., p. 225. 



2 (1) Metapleurae carinate ; areolet regu- 



larly triang'ular. 



3 (Li) Metauotuin strongly and distinctly 



trans-strigose. 



4 (5) Pale vertical orbits not extending to 



ocelli spilopus, Cam., p. 227. 



5 (4) Pale vertical orbits extending to 



ocelli lejnda, Cam., p. 227. 



(o) Metanotum strongly punctate and not 

 strigose. 



7 (10) Areolet petiolate ; abdomen not 



aciculate. 



8 (9) AntenucB innnaculate; terebra longer 



than half the body . . . . = minuenta, sp. n., p. 228. 



9 (8) Antenn;e pale-banded ; terebra 



shorter than half the body binfjhami, Cam., p. 229. 



10 (7) Areolet subsessile ; abdomen partly 



Jiciculate. 



11 (12) Scutelliim tlavous ; second and third 



segments aciculate 'V-maculata, Cam., p. 229. 



12 (11) Scntelhun black; basal segment at 



most aciculate. 

 l-'5 (14) Central segments bicoloured ; terel)ra 



longer than body morum, sp. n., p. 230. 



14 (13) Centralsegmentstricoloured; terebra 



longer than bidf the body (frccni, Cam., p. 230. 



loo. Lissonota brevicauda, sp. n. 



§ . A small black species, with the body marked and the 

 antennae banded with white, legs mainly fuivous and wings 

 hyaline. Uead subvertical beliind thn eyes, dull, closely and 

 evenly punctate; black, with the facial orbits very broadly to 

 apices of elongate cheeks, the iiulistinctiy discrete glabrous and 

 convex clypeus, and the mandibles (except their hidentate a|)ices), 

 stramineous; face deplanatt" aiul more sjiar^ely punctate laterally, 

 frons Hat, with the sc-robes small and entirely punctate. Anteiuun 

 fully as long as body, veiy slender and strongly attenuate apically, 



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