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ICHXKrMONlD.i;. 



the outer more broadly belo\^•, ila\oiis ; front, vertex and face 

 closely punctate and sparsely pilose ; clypeus convex, smootli and 

 inipunctate ; mandibles flavous, t^xccpt at api'X. Antenna' filiform 

 and black, becoming piceous to^\ ards their apices. Fronotum more 

 broadly ilavous basally and the propleurse broadly fiavous below. 



Mesonotum dull and closely punc- 

 tate : meso- and meta-pleuTce with 

 broad fiavous markings; metanotum 

 closely and uniformly punctate, 

 Avitli the apex more strongly punc- 

 tate beyond the carinas ScuteUum 

 somewhat strongly punctate, black, 

 with two large basal fiavous pyri- 

 form marks, which approximate 

 discally. Abdomen with all seg- 

 ments bLick and twice as long as 

 broad ; first longer than second 

 segment ; the three basal closely 

 punctate and the apical ones en- 

 tirely glabrous ; venter bright 

 fiavous, with apex dai-ker ; terebra 

 very nearly as long as body. Legs 

 red; anterior coxfe and trochanters 

 fiavous, the intermediate fulvidous ; 

 all the trochanters with black mark- 

 ings ; hind coxae black and basally 

 fiavous above, their tibia? and tarsi 

 black. Wiiif/s fulvous hyaline, 

 darker basally ; costa and nervures 

 infuscate : areolet with petiole longer than inner submargiual 

 nervvu'e, the outer pellucid below. 

 Length 10 millim. 

 Assam : Khasi Hills (liotJmei/). 

 Type in the Oxford Museum. 



Fig. 55. — Cten opimpla alho- 

 'maculata, Cam. 



Genus MEYVA, Cam. 

 Mei/va, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 191, 



GrENOTTPE, 21. villosa, Cam. 



Head oblique and not prominent behind the large and internally 

 parallel eyes ; cheeks short but distinct ; clypeus not basally dis- 

 crete ; maiidibles stoutly and unequally bidentate apitally. 

 jN'otauli wanting; metaTiotum strongly transversely unicariiiate 

 before its apex, with the spiracles elliptic and about thrice as long 

 as broad. Abdomiual segments longer than broad; basal seg- 

 ment as broad basally as apically, its spiracles small, circular, at 



