pisoN. 221 



longer than the head and thorax together. Black, the pubescence 

 on the clypeus and apex of the median segment, and the silky pile 

 on the head, the thorax, and on the margins of the abdominal 

 segments shining golden ; wings hyaline, the apical margins 

 narrowly fuseescent, nervures and tegulse testaceous. 



Hah. Tenasserim. $• Length 11; exp. 20 mm. Allied to but 

 quite distinct from P. awifex, Smith, and other related Australian 

 species. 



Division B. — Fore iving with two cubital cells. 



415. Pis on erythropus. 



Par;ipisnn rutipes, Smith (nee Pisonitus ( = Pison) rufipes, Shuck. 



Trcms. Ent. Soc. ii, p. 79), Trans. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 299, ?. 

 Pison erythropus, Kohl, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1884, p. 186 ; 



Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) ii, 1889, p. 117. 



2 cJ • Head, thorax, and abdomen finely and closely punc- 

 tured and shining ; the clypeus, front of the face, emargination 

 of the eyes, occiput, cheeks, a line on the posterior border of 

 the pronotum, the sides of the median segment, and distinct 

 moderately broad transverse fasciae on the posterior margins of 

 abdominal segments 1-4 above pubescent or pilose ; the clypeus 

 and front boldly convex ; the median segment rounded, posteriorly 

 divided by a medial longitudinal deep fun*ow, the base of the 

 segment with a row of short longitudinal striae ; the abdomen 

 pseudosessile, about the length of the head and thorax together, 

 the apical margins of the basal three segments constricted. Black, 

 the pubescence and pile silvery ; the trochanters, femora, tibiae, 

 and tarsi of the legs red ; the posterior margins of the basal five 

 segments of the abdomen testaceous ; the wings hyaline, nervures 

 and tegulse testaceous. 



Hab. jN'orth-West Provinces. 5 (S . Length8-9- exp. 14-17 mm. 



416. Pison rothneyi. Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli (1897). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen shining, very closely punctured, 

 the punctures minute and very shallow ; the clypeus densely, the 

 rest of the head, the thorax, and abdomen thinly pruinose ; median 

 segment with a medial longitudinal furrow from base not quite 

 reaching the apex of the segment, which latter is slightly concave 

 and densely pubescent ; abdomen with the base of the 2nd strongly, 

 of the 3rd segment slightly constricted. Black ; the apical four 

 joints of the flagellum of the antennas and the legs more or less 

 obscurely piceous ; the posterior margins of segments 1-5 of the 

 abilomen narrowly shining testaceous ; the clypeus with silvery 

 pile ; the pubescence on the apex of th? median segment fuscous ; 

 wings hyaline, nervures and tegulae testaceous. 



Hub. Barrackpore, Bengal. $. Length!; exp.lA mm. Type 

 in coll. Eothney. 



