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389. Anilasta simlaensis, Cam. 



Limneria simlaensis, Cameron,* Zeits. IIvm.-Dipt. v, 1905, p. 283- 

 ($,asd). 



2 . A black species, with the abdomen broadly and the legs red, 

 the base of the latter flavous. Jlead black, with the palpi and 

 mandibles pale flavous and the apices of the latter red : face and 

 clj'-peus dull, finely and closely punctate and densely pilose, the 

 alutaceous t'rons and vertex sparsely pilose. AntenncB black. 



Thorax alutaceous ; inetanotum 

 closely punctate and distinctly 

 trans-bicarinate, the basal carina 

 united to the base of the segment 

 by a keel which bifurcates at the 

 base ; apical slope closely and 

 irregularly reticulate ; pleurse- 

 coarsely alutaceous, wdth the pro- 

 pleurae closely striate ; mesopleurte 

 with the oblique central impression 

 distinctly striate above. Smtellum 

 closely and distinctly punctate. 

 pj„ J44 Abdomen black, with the second 



Anilasta simlaensis, Cam. and third segments apically, the 



fourth basally, and the remainder 

 almost entirely, red ; venter red, with its base subflavidous. 

 Legs red, with the hind ones darker ; coxae and trochanters pale 

 flavidous, the hind ones broadly externally and basally, their 

 tarsi and apices of their tibiae, black. Winrjs clear hyaline, with 

 nervures and stigma black ; areolet small, oblique and shorter 

 than its petiole. 

 Length 7 millim. 



Kashmir, 6000 ft., v. 01 {Col. Nurse) ; Punjab: Simla, viii. 9S 

 {Col. Nurse, type). 



Tiipe in Col. Nurse's collection. 



This species belongs to Thomson's genus Anilasta ; it has the 

 anterior coxae and trochanters entirely, and the liind coxae only 

 above, stramineous ; the metanotum is dull, granulate and not 

 longitudinally impressed, the areola is subquadi-ate, not longer 

 than broad, hardly discrete from the petiolar area and emits the 

 costulae almost from its base, the basal area is extremely narrow 

 and subparallel-sided and the spiracles circular ; the hind femora 

 and tibiae are red with the latter hardly darker at both extremities, 

 the nervellus is not geniculate ; the basal nervure slightly post- 

 furcal ; the second discoidal cell apically acute and the anal 

 nervure intercepts the brachial cell at its centre ; the terebra is 

 very slightly exserted. 



The Kashmir specimen differs from the type only in its rather 

 smaller size and entirely black coxae. 



