LAEBA. 197 



h'. Le<^s black. 



d\ Form very slender ; abdomen much 

 longer than head and thorax united ; 

 median segment coarsely trans- 

 versely striate : length 18 mm L. elegatis, p. 197. 



b'^. Form not particularly slender, abdo- 

 men not remarkably long ; median 

 segment finely trausverselj' striate : 

 length 10 mm. 

 a^. Anterior ocellus normal, round . . L. nana, p. 200. 

 ¥. Anterior ocellus elongate, pointed 



in front and back L. nigriventris, p. 201. 



379. Larra elegans, n. sp. 



$ . Closely resembles Notogonia lahoriosa. Smith (p. 204), in 

 coloration, but the pile on the face and 

 thorax is more dense, and the bands on the 

 abdomen brighter and more silvery, M'ings 

 without the fuscous apical margins. In 

 form and sculpture it is of course very 

 different. Loug and slender; the abdomen 

 elongate, about one-quarter of its own 

 length, longer than the head and thorax 

 united ; the pronotum not depressed ; the 

 median segment coarsely transversely 

 Fig. 45. striate, a medial longitudinal carina from 



Larra elegans, 5- I- base to verge of the truncated portion 

 of the segment ; pygidial area bare, without pubescence, punc- 

 tured. 



Hab. Tenasserim. $ . Length 18 ; exp. 22 mm. c? un- 

 known. 



380. Larra fuscipennis, Cam. Mem. Maneh. L. Ph. Soc. (4) ii, 1889, 



p. 126. 



c5" . Head and thorax in front finely and rather closely 

 punctured, the punctures much finer on the scutellum and post- 

 scutellum ; clypeus and front to above the base of the antennae 

 densely pubescent ; the front above transversely margined, the 

 sides above the margin next the inner orbits raised, a deep trans- 

 verse sulcation behind the ocellar region ; median segment longer 

 than the mesonotum, posteriorly truncate, finely punctured, and 

 thinly pubescent ; abdomen smooth, the posterior margins of the 

 basal six segments with transverse thin pilose bands ; the pygidial 

 area thinly pubescent. Black, the basal two abdominal segments 

 red, with the centre above black, the margins of the basal six 

 segments testaceous ; the pubescence white, the transverse bands 

 on the abdomen silvery; wings light fuscous, the basal cell of the 

 fore, and the base of the hind wing clear hyaline. 



Hub. Tirhoot, Bengal, c? . Length 13 ; earp. 25 mm. Type in 

 coll. Eothney. 



