MEYVA. 23'6 



apex of basal third. Legs slender, with tarsal claws siinpl(> ; liiiul 

 tarsi not or hnrdly longer than the tibiae ; all tarsi spinose, 

 Areolet externally incomplete, with its petiole as long as its 

 height, and emitting the recurrent nervure from its apex. 



Range. Assam. 



This genns differs from Ctenoplmpla in the elliptic metathoracic 

 spiracles, simple tarsal claws and lack of basal clypeal sulcus ; 

 the basal abdominal structure resembles that of Llssonota. 



164. Meyva villosa, Cam. 



Mciiva villosa, Camerou,* 3Iaiich. Afeni. 1899, p. 19i', pi. iii, [\<^. 11 

 (wiug). 



cJ . Head black, with the inner orbits more narrowly centrally, 

 the outer narrowly, a transverse line on lower part of the closely 



punctate and white-pilose 

 face, the clypeus, manddoles 

 broadly at their base, and 

 palpi, flavescent ; frons 

 smooth and vertex very 

 coarsely striolate. Antenna; 

 immaculate. Thorax with 

 dense short pale pilosity ; 

 pro- and meso-pleurte 

 closely punctate, with the 

 latter centrally glabrous 

 and nitidulous basally ; 

 mesonotum nitidulous and 

 strongly punctate ; meta- 

 uotuni strongly, deeply 

 and, like the metapleurae. 

 closely punctate. Scutellum 

 strongly but not closely punctate, with a ilavous dot at 

 base of its basal carinas. Abdomen rufescent, with the basal 

 segment except at apex and an interrupted mark near base of the 

 second, black. Legs red ; coxa? and trochanters black, with the 

 front ones anteriorly flavescent ; posterior tarsi black. Wings 

 infuscate hyaline, apically infumate ; stigma and nervures black ; 

 ai'eolet emitting recurrent nervure from its apically pellucid outer 

 nervure. 



Length 15 millim. 



Assam: Khasi Hills {Rothncy). 



Tyite in the Oxford Museum. 



Fig. 56. — Meijva, villosa, Cain. 



