LIMNEKIUM. 



48{> 



the second and tliird segments pale testaceous beneath, and 

 apically dull red above ; postpetiole with an elongate basal area ; 

 terebra 3 niillini, in length. Le<js rufescent, with the base of the 



Fig. 142. — Limncvium acjraem^c, Cam, 



front ones flavous ; the pubescent hind tarsi and apices of their 

 tibiae black ; calcaria stramineous. Wings clear hyaline ; stigma 

 and nervures dark testaceous ; tegulfe flavous. 



Length 7-8 millim. 



United Provinces ; Agra (Itothneg). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



383. Limnerium taprobanicum, Cam. 



Limneriuni taprohanmtni, Cameron, Spolia Zeylanica, 1905, 

 p.li'8(?). 



$ . A dull, black species with the legs mainly red. Head dull, 

 finely and closely punctate, and with white pubescence ; mandibles 

 and palpi ])ale testaceous. Antennce immaculate. Thorax didl, 

 finely and closely pimctate, with white pubescence ; in the centre 

 of the base of the metanotum is a clearly defined area about three 

 times as long as wide and of equal widtli throughout; "from 

 the apex of this run two keels ; tliey are at the base roundly 

 curved outwardly, then run obliquely to the outer side of the 

 apical slope, uniting with the pleural keel above tlu' middle of 

 the coxa) " ; propleura) closely, obliquely and somewhat strongly 

 striate. Ahdomen entirely black. Legs : anterior pair dark 

 rufescent, with the coxse basally black and the trochanters ]iale 



