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377. Limnerium crassifemiir, Thorns. 



Limneria crassifevwr, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xi, 1887, p. 1106 



(J$)- 

 I^ultmnena crassifemur, Sclimiedekuecht, Ichn. Opusc. 1908, 



p. 1657 (J 2). 

 Limnerium longiventre, Cameron MS. 



<? $ . An elongate, black species, with the legs, except basally, 

 red ; femora distinctly stout and the hind ones apically black ; 

 hind tibias testaceous, with their apices and a band before the base 

 black ; hind tarsi dark ; longitudinal metanotal impression niti- 

 dvdous ; petiole with its lateral foveaB deep. 



Length G-9 milliin, 



Punjab: Simla, ix. 98 (CoZ. iA^2«;-se) ; Ceylon : Matale, vii. and 

 viii. 01 {E. E. Green). Europe. 



This species belongs to a very closely allied group, but its author 

 says that it may be recognised by the shining and subglabrous 

 metanotal areola, the distinctly close punctation of the mesopleurae, 

 the strongly buccate cheeks, longer and stouter mandibles, apically 

 subrotund clyjieus and the distinctly dilated S vertex. 



This insect is known to occur in Sweden and Germany, but its 

 distribution is doubtless very much wider and the present will 

 probably prove to be only the first of many distant records. 

 Mr. Green has bred three analogous females from larvae of an 

 unknown species of Psyche at Matale. 



378. Limnermm volens, Cam. 



Limneria volens, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 1:26 ( $ ). 



$ . A black species, with the legs and abdomen, except basally, 

 red. Head^\\t\\ the face and clypeus coarsely shagreened, \\ith 

 short white pubescence ; frous and vertex dull ; palpi and man- 

 dibles stramineous, with apices of the latter black. Ante)intr 

 black, with pale pubescence, and slightly thickened towards their 

 apices. Thorax dull and immaculate; metanotum coarsely 

 shagi-eened, basally elevated and distinctly discrete from the post- 

 scutellum, the curved carina widely separated from the base, and, 

 behind it, an interrupted, longitudinal one ; the carina bordering 

 the a])ex indistinct at the top ; pleurje with white pubescence : 

 propleurse coarsely shagreened and not excavate, broadly elevated 

 basally and strongly trans-striate centrally below ; mesopleura-, 

 except centrally, strongly aciculate, with the base curved and 

 distinctly margined below ; mesosternum obliquely sulcate befoi-e 

 the intermediate coxae ; metapleurse coarsely aciculate and basally 

 shortly impressed below the spiracles. Postscutelhim circularly 

 foveoiate and longitudinally striate on either side. Ahdomen red, 

 with the first segment and the disc of the second, except apically, 

 black ; venter flavous ; terebral valvulsD black. Letjs fulvous ; 



