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332. Trathala striata, Cam. 



Trathahi striata. Cameron * Manch. :Mcm. 1899, p. Vl'I. pi. iii. 

 fig. 7(2). 



5 . Aw elongate, slender black species, with the greater part 

 of the legs and abdomen red. Head with frontal orbits, palpi, 

 mandibles, and the closely punctate face and clypeus, flavous ; 

 epistoma above, and the mandibular teeth, black ; vertex super- 

 licially and sparsely punctate, froiis more shining and transversely 



aciculate. Anteuiue black, \\ith the 

 scape, except centrally above, fla- 

 vous. Thorax immaculate, closely 

 and strongly punctate; metanotum 

 with two central arecP, the basal 

 being the shorter ; its base trans- 

 verse in the middle, becoming 

 obliquely wider, then gradually 

 narrowed, the keels bounding the 

 narrowed part being slightly 

 curved, not straight like the 

 basal ; its apical halt" transversely 

 striated ; the apical area nioi'e 

 strongly transversely striated ; 

 the basal outer area closely and 

 finely punctate ; the apical trans- 

 versely rugose ; the spiraculnr area 

 distinctly defined, of equal width 

 throughout, and closely trans- 

 versely rugose ; its apex rounded 

 and ending opposite the base of the 

 middle coxae ; beliind it is a narrow 

 area, reaching to the hinder coxa* ; inside, this area is coarsely 

 rugose {sec Cam.) ; pleurse strongly punctate, mesopleurae cen- 

 trally strigose and basally smooth. ScateUum not or hardly more 

 strongly punctate than the mesonotum, with its sides and apex 

 strongly and distinctly striate ; ])ostscutellnm cariiiiform. AIxlo- 

 men red, with the first segment entirely, the second disc-ally, and 

 the third basally. black ; first segment basally glabrous and beyond 

 the centre isolatedly punctate, finely and closely aciculate laterally 

 above before its apex : second closely and finely aciculate longi- 

 tudinally throughout to near its smooth apex, and, like the third, 

 w hich is only l)asally aciculate, discally impressed ; terebra two- 

 thirds the length of the body. Letjs red, with the anterior coxaj 

 and trochanters flavous. Wings hyaline and extending liardly 

 beyond the apex of the second segment ; nervures and stigma 

 black ; basal and apical abscissae of the radius oblique, the Litter 

 larger and somewhat less straight ; second recurrent ner\ ure 

 broadly fenestrate above. 

 Length 15 millim. 

 Ass.v^r : Khasi Hills (Rothncg). 

 Type in the Oxford ^luseum. 



Fig. 120. 

 Trathala striata. Cam. 



