TARYTIA. 



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398. Tarytia basimaciila, Cam. 



Tarytia haximaetda, Cameron,* Journ. ]?onibay Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1907,p.r,88($j. 



$ . A testaceous red species. Head flavoiis, M'ith tlie ocellai- 

 region triangularly black ; face and base of clypeus closely punc- 

 tate, the latter apically glabrous ; frons and vertex closely, but 

 more strongly, punctate ; scrobes elongate and deeply impressed. 



Fig. 147. — Tarijtiu basimacula, Cam. 



separated by a carina ; eyes large and internally parallel ; ocelli 

 large aud pale, A\"ith the basal pair further apart than from the eyes. 

 Thorax : mesonotuin closely punctate, with two broad flavesceat 

 stripes ; metanotum rugosely punctate, with indistinct carinas and 

 the apical declivity strongly trans-striate ; ])leuriTe closel}' and 

 distinctly piuictate, with the meso- and meta-pleurte broatlly fulvous 

 basally. Scutellum roundly convex. Abdomen with the first seg- 

 ment basally, and the basal half cf the second discally, black ; anus 

 infuscate ; second segment and the postpetiole closely and dis- 

 tinctly acictilate ; third basally substriate ; terebra 2 niillim. in 

 length. Le;/s somewhat paler than the body and immaculate. Winc/s 

 hyaline, with the stigma dark testaceous and the nervures black. 



Length 8 millim. 



Bombay : Deesa, x. 99 {Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



I am strongly of the opinion that this is the alternate sex of 

 T. rariniscutis, but since they have been described as distinct aud 

 we at present know but single examples of each species of the 

 genus, it is better to treat them temporarily as different, more 

 especially as the present specimen has the notauli entirely apical 

 and not extending to the disc, while in T. cariniscKtis they extend 

 to the centre of the mesonotum. 



