506 



icmfEu:sioNii).T:, 



399. Tarytia flavo-orbitalis, Gam. 



larytia jiavo-orhitaliff, Cameron, Jouni. I'oiubay Kat. Hist. Soc. 

 1907,1). 589 ($). 



cJ 5 . A slender testaceous species Mitli only the mandibular 

 apices, interocellar space, terebral valvulse, the two basal abdominal 

 segments dorsally, and the following more or less discally, black ;, 

 apex and sometimes base of hind tibiae, their tarsi and ttie 

 tlagellum, slightly infuscate. Head, somewliat narrow, dull and 

 pubescent, sometimes with the orbits distinctly flavous ; scrobes 



large and separatetl by a carina ; 

 face distinctly punctate, with the 

 epistoma elevated and the dis- 

 tinctly discrete clypeus sparsely 

 punctate and apically margined ; 

 cheeks shorter than the base of 

 the vstout and equideutate 

 mandibles. Antennce filiform and 

 extending to the apex of the 

 postpetiole. Thorax closely punc- 

 tate and dull, with the notauli 

 deeply impressed ; metanotal area; 

 fine and not very distinct ; areola 

 elongate and hexagonal, emitting 

 costulae before its centre ; petiolar 

 area elongate and subparallel- 

 sided. Scutellnm convex and not 

 laterally margined. Abdomen, 

 linear, with the strongly aciculate- 

 second segment broadest ; basal segment linear to its centre, 

 thence fusiform and aciculate, ^vith its apex (in S ) often pale ; 

 remaining segments very strongly compressed, -with only the 

 acute disc usually blackish ; d valvular large and exserted ; 

 terebra as long as the two basal segments or rather more than 

 half the abdominal length, spicnla deflexed. Legs slender and 

 flavidous. Winr/s broad and not ample, with the radix, teguke 

 and stio-ma testaceous, the nervures hardly darker; second re- 

 current broadly fenestrate above, hardly longer than the 

 submarcinal nervure and close to it; basal uervure not con- 

 tinuous ; nervelhis a little curved but not genicnlate. 

 Length 4^-8 millim, 



Bengal" Pusa, viii. and ix., and Chapra, vii. (Pusa coll.), 

 Katihar, X. 07 (Ind. Mus.) ; Bombay: Deesa, x. 98 {Col JS'iirse,. 

 type), Surat, x. (Pu?a coll.); Madhas: Quilon, Travancore, xi. 08 

 (A. AnnandaJe) ; Ceylon : Trincomali, ix. 09, and Peradeuiya, 

 s. 09 (E. E. Green) : Burma : Bhamo, vii. 80 (L. Fea). 

 Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



Specimens have been taken by Mr. C. Paiva, of the Indian 

 Museum, on board-ship, four miles off Tuticorin, 25. v. 08, and ten. 

 miles off Coconada, Madras coast, 17. iv. 08. 



Fig. 148. 

 larytia flavv-orhitali^, Cam. 



