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longitudinally; vertical orbits broadly and triangularly, frontal 

 more narrowly, flavous ; face, mouth, and cheeks entirely 

 tlavous, the first convex, coarsely and evenly punctate, not dis- 

 crete from tlie apically truncate clypeus ; mandibles nut large, 

 apically infuscate. Antennce filiform and shortly pilose, black, 

 with the scape flavous beneath. Thorax stout and broader than 

 the head ; mesonotuiu siiining and very finely punctate and pilose, 

 black, with large elongate callosities before and a line beneath 

 radix, as well as a triangular mark on the mesopleurae, bright 

 flavous ; notauli somewhat deeply impressed ; metathorax sub- 

 glabrous and nitidulous, with all the areas (except the basal area) 

 well-delined ; areola twice as long as broad and nearly parallel- 

 sided, emitting costukc much before its centre ; petiolar area 



Fig. 76. — Kxochus xanthopus. Cam. 



short, entire and basally sti'ong. Scutellum, postscutellmu, and 

 both freni flavous. Abdomen elongate-fusiform, imniaciUate black, 

 finely punctulato and pilose throughout ; basal segment strongly 

 margined laterally and discally bicarinate to near its apex ; venter 

 and the elongate ventral valvulte piceous. Legs bright flavous, 

 with only the pulvdh, hind coxa;, and basal joint of their tro- 

 chanters black ; posterior culcaria very unequal in length, with 

 the inner hind cak-ar distinctly shorter than the apical width 

 of its tibia. Winc/s hyaline and not broad ; I'adix and teguhc 

 flavous, stigma infuscate, nervures brownish; upper basal by no 

 means continuous with the lower; nervellus subopposite and 

 intei'cepted distinctly below its centre. 



Lenjtli 7 uiillim. 



Punjab : Simla, v. !»7 {Col. JS'arse). 



Ti/i<e in Col. JNurse's collection. 



The above description has been drawn from the type. 



