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vertex ; the thorax red ; the abdomen with a narrow transverse 

 band on the apical tnargiu of the 2nd segment white, the band 

 broarlening on the side ot the segment into a large ovate macula, 

 the 5th segment white above ; legs black, variegated with rufous ; 

 wings hyaline, with a faint subapical cloud crossing the front wing. 

 Hub. Northern India; Burma. $ . Lewjth 5-6; exj). 11 mm, 



498. Gorytes alipes, n. sp. 



2 (S . Head, thorax, and abdomen obscurely pruinose, eyes 

 strongly convergent below ; clypens narrowly triangular, convex, 

 its anterior margin transverse ; front with a vertically impressed 

 line ; median segment slightly compressed laterally, roundly trun- 

 cate posteriorlv : a triangular space at base smooth and shining, 

 enclosed by shallow convergent furrows, which, after junction, are 

 continued as a single furrow to the apex of the segment ; abdomen 

 with the basal segment forming a stout petiole. Black, the 

 clypeus, scape of the antennte, a line on the pronotum posteriorly, 

 a line on the anterior lateral margins of tlie mesonotum, the post- 

 scutellum, the anterior and intermediate femora, tihia>, and tarsi, 

 the posterior tibiae and tarsi, and the apical margins broadly of the 

 basal four segments of the abdomen yellow : the intermediate 

 femora and the posterior tibiae black above, the transverse band on 

 the basal abdominal segment emarginate in the middle, and the 

 bands on the remaining segments very wide laterally ; clypeus 

 covered with a dense silvery pile, flagellum of antennae beneath 

 fulvous : wings hvaline, nervures and tegulae testaceous. 



Hah. Bombay ; Malabar coast ; Tenasserim. 5 . Lewjtli 9-13 j 

 exp. 17-25 mm. S slightly smaller. 



499. Gorytes amatorius, Smith, Tr. Enf. Soc. 1875, p. 39, 5 ? 



Hancll. Sitzumisb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, xcvii, 1)<88. p. 536 ; Cam. 

 Mem. Manch'.L. Ph. Soc. (4) iii, 1890, p. 240, pi. ix, fig. 15. 



2 . Vertex of the head and thorax coarsely punctured, the 

 punctures sparser and coarser on the thorax than on the head, 

 the median segment and abdomen smooth, shining, almost im- 

 punctate ; the eyes strongly convergent below ; clypeus narrow 

 laterally, almost twice as high as it is broad ; front above the 

 antennae slightly concave, with a medial vertically -impressed line ; 

 median segment roundly truncate posteriorly. Black, the clypeus 

 with thick silvery pile, the apex and sides of the median segment 

 with a thin, short, hoary pubescence ; the scape of the antennae, a 

 line on the pronotum, the tubercles, a spot above the tegulae, the 

 postscutellum, a broad transverse band (sometimes interrupted) at 

 the a])ex of the basal abdominal segment, and narrower transverse 

 anteriorly bi-emarginate lines on the postei-ior margins of the 

 succeeding four segments white, the basal abdominal segment and 

 the coxae, femora, and the tibiae anteriorly ferruginous, the tibia; 

 posteriorly and the tarsi white, the a[)ical joint of the posterior 

 tarsi black ; wings hyahne, nervures and tegulas testaceous. 



cf similar : differs in having the inner orbits of the eyes nearly 

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