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ICnXED>IONID."E. 



Fig. 122. 

 Trklwmma iiii/ricans. Cam. 



posteriorly truncate ; eyes large, pilose, convergent apically and 



internally eniarginate ; cheeks 

 wanting ; the ])rominent face, cly- 

 peus, all the orbits and the apically 

 subequidentate mandibles, flavous ; 

 t'rons with a band of stria?, con- 

 stricted below ; occiput margined 

 and not quite transverse ; temples 

 not constricted. Antenna' black, 

 with the scape flavous beneath. 

 Thorax with dense silvery pub- 

 esceuce, black, with a broad and 

 apically constricted anteradical 

 flavous ])atch on either side ; meso- 

 notum nude, dull and basally trans- 

 striate, with the distinct notauli 

 and their basal region irregularly 

 reticulate ; metathorax not caud- 

 ately produced apically ; metanotum 

 and its pleurae coarsely reticulate, 

 with the apices of the ]n-oplenra) 

 strongly above, and tlie mesopleurse 

 more Hnely and closely, strigose. 

 Scutellnm subconvex, flavous and 

 glabrons, distinctly transverse and laterally carinate throughout. 

 Abdomen black and immaculate, with the terebra less than half its 

 length. Legs black, with the anterior coxse and trochanters 

 entirely stramineous, their femora and tibife in front, and the 

 front femora entirely, flavous ; hind coxse broadly basally above or 

 entirely, and all the calcaria, flavous ; hind trochanter more than 

 double the length of the trochanterellus, their femora basally 

 constricted. Win<is hyaline, with the tegulfe flavous, the stigma 

 ^nd nervures black ; second recurrent emitted beyond the sub- 

 marginal nervure ; basal nervure not continuous through the 

 median ; second discoidal cell not much broader apically than 

 basally, the third double its basal breadth at its apex ; nerveilus 

 not intercepted. 



Length 10-17 millim. 



United Pkotin'Ces : Dehra Dun and Mussoori (Ind. Mus.) ; 

 Assam: Sadiya, Margherita and Ukhrul (Ind. Mus.) ; Cexeox : 

 Kandy, \\.-\x.{E. E. Green, type ; O.S. Wiclavar), Hakgala, ii. 07, 

 and Maskeliya, viii. 05 {E. E. Green). 



The hind cox;e vary in colour from entirely pale stramineous to 

 mainly black ^ith a flavescent discal mark ; the hind tibiae are 

 sometimes entirely, but not broadly, red-banded before their sub- 

 attenuate base ; and the fourth and following segments are often 

 laterally, with the S valvulse always entirely, ruf'escent. 



This fine species is most closely related to T. enecator, Eossi, 

 but it is usually much larger and black, M'itb nitidulous and 

 flavous scutellum and orbits. 



