EXETASTES. 



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tibia) and of their femora, black, the central joints of the tarsi 

 clear white. Wings subhyaline, with the stigma and radix clear 

 fulvous ; tegulcB eutirelj' stramineous and the nervelet short. 



Length 10 millim. 



Assam (T^. F. Badgleg). 



Tjjpe in the British Museum. 



This species is extremely closely allied to tlie comiiiou Euroi)Pau 

 E. guttatorins, Grav., and indeed may be little more than a local 

 form, though matei-ially differing in the colour of its head and 

 legs, as well as in having the liind legs much longer, abdomen 

 duller, head broader, mesonotum less closely punctate and more 

 nitidulous, metathorax distinctly larger, areolet much more oblique 

 with its outer nervure quite straight, the radius less curved and 

 the nervelet longer. I have seen but a single example. 



175. Exetastes nitidus, Cam. 



E.reUistes nitidtis, Cameron,* .Journ. Bomhav Nat. Hist. Soc. 1006, 

 p. i>74($). 



2 . A stout black species, with the abdomen and legs mainly 

 red, the petiole short and the wings slightly clouded. Head stout 

 and subbuccate behind the somewhat small eyes ; vertex finely and 

 sparsely punctate, frons closely and evenly ; face equally evenly 



Fig. Gl. — Kxeias/cx vifiJns, Cam. 



punctate, clypeus and centre of mandibles ferruginous. Antennce 

 immaculate black, as long as body, attenuate towards the apices 

 and at base, \\ith the first flagellar joint curved and twice as long 



