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central segments glabrous ; finely pilose and deep black, the apical 

 bait" of tbe two basal segments and the third, except in centre of 

 its base, deep red ; bypopygiura apically truncate, rufescent and 

 covering tbe base of tlie concolorous terebra. Legs short and 

 stout, bhick, with the anterior tarsi, the front and base of inter 

 mediate tibiie and the front femora, except at tbeir base, testaceous ; 

 liind tibiae broadly rufo-testaceous centrally; ])ulvilli elongate, 

 claws simple. Winys testaceous-hyaline, with the costa, stigma, 

 radix, and tegula? testaceous ; nervures blackish. 

 Length 11-12 millim. 



Assam : Shillong, 6000 ft., iv. and ix. 03 {lioivland Turner). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



The abdomen varies both in the length of tlie petiolar carinje, 

 which in the type are simply basal, but in tbe larger specimen 

 extend beyond tlie centre, and in coloration, since in the latter 

 both base and apex of the second segment, merely the apex of the 

 first, the whole of the third, and the sides of the fourth laterally, 

 are red. 



221. Colpotrochia pilosa. Cam. 



Inoresa pilusa, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. See. 1909 

 p. 724(5 as c?). 



5 . A handsome black and flavous species, with the fiao-ellum. 

 .stigma, and bind femora red. Bead black and somewhat const ricted 

 behind the internally emarginate eyes, which extend to base of 

 mandibles ; occiput and frons sparsely and obsoletely punctate, 

 with the latter strongly carinate between the scrobes ; face strono-lv 

 and evenly punctate and with white hairs throughout, not im- 

 pressed, nor discrete from tlie small and apically truncate 

 clypeus ; mandibles and palpi flavescent, A\ith apices' of former 

 black. Antennce flavous, with the flagellum ferruginous above and 

 apically ; all the joints very short, the first about half as lono- 

 again as second ; scape not strongly excised. Thorax black, with 

 callosities before radices, the nietapleurae narrowly at their base 

 and the apical two-thirds of the metanotum, flavous; mesonotum 

 with grey hairs and shagreened, apically subacuminate, with no 

 notauli ; mesopleurae nitidulous and distinctly ])unctate • uiela- 

 thorax basally and laterally black and very finely punctate ; lateral' 

 cariuifi distinct both above and below the strongly elongate spiracles ; 

 basal area minute and incomplete ; petiolar area wanting, apically 

 longitudinally tricarinate and suhproduced on either side of the 

 petiole. !SciiteUum not large, nitidulous and subdr])]anate, flavous 

 with its elongate pilosity and transverse postscutellum concolorous. 

 Abdomen lialf as long again, though not broader than, head and 

 thorax, somewhat nitidulous, closely punctulate and sti-on'^lv 

 pilose, black, with the three basal segments broadly flavous at their 

 apices both above and below; apical niargin of fourth scrfnient 

 obsoletely rufescent ; hypopygium ai)ically truncate, not extending 

 to base of the rufescent terebra. Leys short and slont, flavous 



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