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375. Limnerium forticarinatum, Cam. 



Limneriiim forticarinatum, Cameron, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. 1906, p. 280 {S). 



S . A black species, with the legs fulvous. Head : clypeus with 

 deuse short grey pubescence, somewhat elongate and not very 

 broad, apically broadly rounded and basally indistinctly discrete ; 

 cheeks as long as the basal breadth of the pale flavousand apically 

 ferruginous mandibles ; palpi pale testaceous ; face hardly promi- 

 nent, dull and obsoletely punctate, with short and deuse grey 

 pubescence ; f rons and vertex very closely and finely punctate. 

 Antennce black and extending to apex of thorax, with the scape 

 sometimes ferruginous beneath. Thorax dull and immacidate, 

 closely punctate and shortly })ubescent, with the notauli obsolete ; 

 metanotum basally closely punctate ; basal lateral areae indefinite ; 

 basal area entirely wanting, cariniform ; areola short cordiform 

 and subcoalesceut Avith the excavate, closely trans-striate and 

 entire petiolar area ; spiracles quite circular. Scutellum black. 

 Ahdomen immaculate and subnitidulous, becoming pilose apically; 

 basal segment nitidulous, smooth, with very obsolete punctation, 

 postpetiole distinct; valvulse large and exserted. Leys fulvous, 

 with the anterior pairs a little paler ; all the coxae (except some- 

 times apices of anterior) and the basal joint of the hind trochanters 

 black ; hind tarsi dark with only the base paler. Wim/s hyaline, 

 with the radix and tegulae stramineous, stigma and nerv'ures dark ; 

 areolet distinctly petiolate and somewhat small, subquadrate, 

 emitting the straight recurrent nerviu-e from distinctly a little 

 beyond its centre ; basal nervure continuous. 



Length 6-7 millim. 



Baluchista>^ : Quetta, viii. 03 and iii. 04 (Col. Kurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



Besides the shape of the raetanotal spiracles, this species is said 

 to differ from L. quettaense in the petiole of the areolet being 

 thickened and fully as long as the internal subuiarginal nervure, 

 the anterior coxae at least basally black, and the metanotal peiiolar 

 area more closely and regularly trans-striate. From L. jiurvi- 

 carinatum it differs in having the metanotum distinctly areated 

 and the basal nervure continuous. 



I have seen only two males. 



376. Limnerium quettaense. Cam. 



(?) Cumpople.r .rantfiostoma, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Europ. iii, p. 460 

 ( f^ ) ; (f. Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xi, 1887, p. 1107 ( d" $ )• 



Limnerium (juettaimse, Cameion, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist Soc 

 190G,p. 280(c?$). 



S. A black species, with the legs fulvous. Head with the 

 clypeus broad, apically broadly rounded and basally indistinctly 



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