200 SPHEQID^. 



2 . Head and thorax minutely and closely punctured and 

 thinly pubescent, head shining ; clypeus much broader than long, 

 its anterior margin widely arched ; median segment truncate, 

 posteriorly closely but rather more coarsely punctured, at base 

 narrowly reticulate, and bearing a medial longitudinal shallow 

 furrow with, in the middle, a carina along its length up to the 

 verge of the truncate posterior portion ; abdomen smooth and 

 shining, with transverse bands of silky pile, \^ hich are broadened 

 laterally on the posterior margins of the 1 st-5th segments above, 

 these bands being only visible in certain lights. Black, the 

 pubescence and pile silvery Avhite, the mandibles and the scape of 

 the antennae in front rufo-fuscous, the posterior femora bright 

 red ; wings very light fusco-hyaline. 



JIab. Tranquebar {Fabr.); Northern India. $. Length 15; 

 exp. 24 mm. 



It is with some doubt that I identify one specimen contained 

 in the collection at South Kensington with this species. Of the 

 4 specimens labelled Larrada maura in the Museum, three are 

 without doubt Notogonia subtessellata, Smith, having the prouotum 

 depressed below the level of the mesonotum, the pygidial area 

 pubescent, and the claws of the tarsi rather long ; the 4th is a true 

 Larra, with the pronotum not or scarcely depressed, the pygidial 

 area bare and punctured, and claws of the tarsi short. It 

 resembles Larra glabrata, Smith, but is quite distinct from it, and 

 possibly is the species described by Fabricius. 



387. Larra nana, n. sp. 



2 . Head, pro- and mesonotum, scutellum and postscutellum 

 smooth, opaque, the surface only finely aciculate ; median segment 

 finely transversely striate ; head broader than the thorax, the eyes 

 convergent towards the vertex ; the front sulcate ; the clypeus 

 densely pilose ; the median segment as long as the pro- and meso- 

 notum united, the sides densely pilose ; abdomen pruinose, with 

 indistinct transverse bauds visible only in certain lights on the 

 posterior margins of the Ist-oth segments ; pygidial area large, 

 bare, sparsely punctured, and with a shallow furrow along the 

 lateral margins not reaching the apex of the segment. Jet-black, 

 with silvery pile ; wings hyaline with a yellowish tinge, nervures 

 and tegulae testaceous. 



Hab. Teuasserim. 5 • Length 10 ; exj). 16 mm. c5' unknown. 

 Type in the British Museum. 



388. Larra rufipes. 



Larrada rutipes, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1859, p. 17, 5 • 

 Larra rutipes, Kohl, Verh. zool.-hot. Ges. Wien, 1884, p. 247. 



§ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pruinose, and very minutely 

 and closely punctured ; clypeus much broader than long, trans- 



