ISWAEA.. 65 



legs moderately loug and stout. Abdomen oval, the 2nd segment 

 bearing a semicircular impression on its posterior margin. 



Only males are known. The female will probably, when found, 

 prove to be apterous. 



Key to tlie Species. 



a. Abdomen yellow, with ferruginous transverse 



bands luteus, p. 55. 



b. Abdomen black, with white transverse bauds .... fasciatus, p. 55. 



125. Iswara luteus, Westtc. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1850, p. 233, (S , pk vii, 

 figs. 5 & 5a-5f; Smith, Cat. vii, p. G5. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen shining, with sparse, scattered, 

 fine, shallow punctures, confined on the abdomen chiefly to the 

 bases of the segments; head nearly as wide as thorax, subglobular, the 

 cheeks not much developed ; eyes remarkably large ; clypeus con- 

 vex, transversely subovate ; postscutellum raised, slightly gibbous ; 

 median segment roundly truncate posteriorly and pubescent; 

 abdomen long, narrow, depressed above, subcylindrical below. 

 Head bkick, the base of the mandibles and the antennaj yellow ; 

 the thorax, median segment, and abdomen pale yellow ; a stripe on 

 each side of the mesonotum and broad transverse bands, widest in 

 the middle, on the posterior margins of the first six segments of 

 the abdomen pale ferruginous ; legs whitish yellow ; wings lacteous 

 hjaline. 



Hab. Sind ; Western India. ^ . Length 15; e.vj>- -'^ "i'^- 



*126. Iswara fasciatus, Smith, A. M. N. H. (4) xii, 1873, p. 253 ; Cain. 

 Mem. Manek. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, p. 137. 



(S . " Black, variegated with yellow and wiiite spots and fasciae, 

 with the legs entirely pale. Head black, antenna? fulvous : the 

 scape in front, the clypeus, and mandibles yellowish white, the 

 tips of the latter ferruginous ; thorax black ; the prothorax, a large 

 square spot tridentate at its anterior margin, the tegulae, scutellum 

 and postscutellum, a large subquadrate macula beneath the wings, 

 and the legs pale yellow ; the coxae and femora at their base above 

 more or less fuscous ; wings hyaline, nervures of anterior wing 

 black, those of the posterior fuscous ; abdomen black, 1st segment 

 with a white apical fascia, on the other segments it is basal, broad, 

 occupying two-thirds of the segments, and each fascia is narrow 

 in the middle, being angularly incised at the posterior margin ; 

 beneath, the fasciae on the segments are deeply incised and become 

 oblong divergent macula?." 



Hab. Sind {Smith). J . Length 6 lines=about 13 ram. 



