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Genus DELOPIA, Cam. 

 Behpia, Cameron, Zeits. Hym.-Dipt. iii, 1903, p. -'504. 



Genotype, J), cariuisnuis, Cam. 



Eyes nude and internally emarginate ; cheeks thrice the length 

 of the second antennal joint ; clypeus hasally not discrete and 

 apically hroadly rounded. Metanotum short, obli([uely declivous 

 tliroughout, gradually constricted apically, longitudnially carinate, 

 Avith two entire area^ an either side, but the discal one wanting: 

 metanotal spiracles al)out thrice as long as broad : nietapleural 

 carina? entire. tScutelknn subdeplauate, broader than long, and 

 laterally impressed before the carinate sides. Abdominal ])etiole 

 elongate, slender and glabrous ; ]iostpetiole but very slightly 

 dilated. Legs slender and short, with tlie calcaria fully half the 

 length of the metatarsi ; claws small and simple ; tibifc and tarsi 

 spiuulose. AVings with the areolet shortly petiolate, and the basal 

 nervure not continuous through the median. 



Ranr/e. Sikkim. 



The' conformation and abdoniinal structure of this genus is 

 analogous with those of Campovlex ; it is, however, readily recog- 

 nised by the discally subdeplanate, laterally sulcate and carinate 

 scutellum, and by the peculiar disposition of the metanotal 

 carinse. 



361. Delopia cariniscutis, Cam. 



Delopta carhiiscufis, Cameron. Zeits. Hvm.-Dipt. iii, l!)05,. 

 p.337($). 



9 . A black species, with the abdomen centrally and the tibiio 

 mainly red. Head black, with only the mandibles testaceous 



red above ; face and cl3'peus 

 closely, distinctly and uniformly 

 punctate and white pubescent, 

 with the epistoma subprominent.. 

 Antennce with the flagellum brun- 

 neous beneath. Thorax' closely 



punctate and immaculate ; meta- 

 notum irregularly trans-striate, 

 broadly impressed centrall}^ with 

 a narrow glabrous sulcus on the 

 exareate disc ; its sides with a 

 large basal, and an elongate apical, 

 area ; pro- and meso-pleura^ close- 

 ly punctate, \^ith the former 

 glabrous and nitidulous below ; 

 rugulose below, and more coarsely and 

 obliquely striate above, tlie carina?. Scutellum subdeplanate and 

 hardly higher than the mesonotura, irregularly rugose, less strongly 



Fig. 134. 

 Belopia cariiii^cn/i.^ 



metapleurse closely 



0am. 



