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tibiae, and tarsi bright orange-brown, abdomen reddish brown ; the 

 fore wing fusco- hyaline, the hind wing hyaline, hghtly fuscescent 

 towards the apex. 



Hab. 'N. India; Sikhim ; Barrackpore. $. Length 12-15; 

 exp. 23-25 mm. 



225. Pseudagenia obsoleta. 



Agenia obsoleta, Sauss. Novara Reise, Hym. p. 56, J, pi. iii, 



fig. 37, 6 ■ 

 Pseudagenia obsoleta, Catn. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891 



p. 438. 



S . Head not so wide as the thorax ; clypeus emarginato ; 

 labrum large, oval : the front of the face flat, di\ ided by a vertical 

 furrow, and tuberculate below; eyes parallel; thorax long, quadrate, 

 truncate anteriorly and posteriorly; pronotura short, posterior 

 margin arched ; scutellum and postscutellum raised in the middle 

 and laterally compressed ; median segment cubical in form, 

 abruptly truncate posteriorly, above smooth or slightly punctured ; 

 abdomen sessile, ovare, vertically flattened, finely and densely 

 punctured. Head, antennae, pro- and mesonotum, tegulte, the 

 scutellum, legs, and abdomen red ; the head and thorax with 

 golden red pile ; the rest of the thorax and the coxse with black, 

 sometimes fulvous-tinted pile ; the margins of the segments of 

 the abdomen above black in the middle ; wings fuscous, with a 

 fulvous and towards the apex violet effulgence. Varieties have the 

 metanotum marked with red, or entirely red, and the coxae reddish ; 

 others are more slender, with the margination of the clypeua 

 angular, the thorax entirely black with cinereous and silvery 

 pile. 



Hah. Ceylon. $ . Length 17; exp. 32 mm. 



*226. Pseudagenia insularis. 



Agenia insularis, Sauss. Novara Reise, Hym. p. 55, 2 ■ 

 Pseudagenia insularis, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv 1891 

 p. 437. 



2 . Allied to P. obsoleta, Sauss., but abundantly different. 

 Clypeus longer, convex, its anterior margin arched, and incised in 

 the middle, and wrinkled ; frontal tubercle subtruncate, the sinus 

 deeper ; pronotum with the posterior margin subcaniculate, arched 

 and markedly angular ; scutellum convex, postscutellum divided 

 by an obsolete furrow and obliquely striate on the sides ; median 

 segment not truncate, slightly sloping, convex, with a central longi- 

 tudinal furrow ; abdomen fusiform and compressed verticallv. 

 Head and thorax black, abdomen and legs red, the coxa) and 

 extreme base of the abdomen black : wings dark fuscous with a 

 purple effulgence. 



Hab. Ceylon. $. Length 17 ; exp. 32 ram. 



I have not seen either this species or P. concolor, Sauss., which 

 seems closely allied to it. Both, so far as their description o-oes, 

 seem to be very similar to P. pcdunculata, Smith. It is possible 

 that all three are forms of one species. 



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