GOBYTES. 275 



pronotnm and of the scutellum, the tubercles, a spot behind 

 them, the anterior and intermediate femora, tibiae, and tarsi, 

 and broad transverse fasciae on the posterior margins of the 

 lst-4th segments of the abdomen above yellow ; the tlagellum of 

 the antennae, the anterior and intermediate femora beneath, and 

 the posterior femora, tibiae, and tarsi light ferruginous yellow ; 

 wings hyaline, the nervures and tegulae testaceous yellow, the 

 radial, the 2nd cubital, and the upper half of the 3rd cubital cell 

 in the fore wing clouded with fuscous brown. 



Hah. Teuasserim. §. Lenyth 9; exp. 17 mm. c? unknown. 

 T3'^pe in the British Museum. 



502. Gorytes politus, n. sp. 



2 ' Head and thorax closely and finely punctured, the sides of 

 the face and the clypeus densely and the abdomen lightly pruinose, 

 clypeus subtriangular, interior orbits of the eyes parallel ; the 

 enclosed triangular space at the base of the median segment with 

 the limiting furrows well-marked, the entire median segment 

 posteriorly longitudinally striate. Black, the clypeus and sides of 

 the face with dense silvery pile, an abbreviated yellow line on the 

 upper lateral margins of the clypeus ; a line on the pronotura, the 

 tubercles, a broad line on the scutellum, and broad subapical 

 transverse fasciae on the lst-4th segments of the abdomen 

 above yellow ; the margins of the segments narrowly testaceous 

 brown ; the flagellum of the antennae beneath and at base above 

 and the legs fusco -ferruginous ; wings hyaline, the nervures and 

 tegulae testaceous, the costal margin of the fore wing at base 

 narrowly and at apex broadly fuscous. 



Hah. Bombay; Western India. $. Length 11; exp. 22 mm. 

 (S unknown. Type in the British Museum. 



503. Gorytes pictus, Smith, Cat. iv, p. 365, $ ; Handl. Sitzimgsh. 



Akad. Wiss. Wien, xcvii, 1888, p. 537 ; Cam. Mem. Manch. L. 

 Fh. Soc. (4) iii, 1890, p. 240. 

 Gorytes tricolor, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 40, 2 d ■ 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen with a few shallow scattered 

 punctures, almost smooth ; head about as wide as the thorax, face 

 and front slightly concave, eyes not convergent below ; clypeus 

 transverse, slightly convex ; median segment compressed, rounded 

 posteriorly, almost truncate, the enclosed triangular space at 

 base longitudinally striate. Head black ; thorax and abdomen 

 reddish ; the base of the mandibles, the upper two-thirds of the 

 clypeus, an elongate spot on the inner orbits above the base of 

 the antenna', a spot in front on the apex of the scape, a line on 

 the pronotum, the tubercles, a broad stripe posteriorly on the 

 scutellum, and a medially-interrupted obscure line on the pos- 

 terior margin of the basal abdominal segment, yellow; the pronotum 

 in front, the base of the scutellum, the postscutellum, the enclosed 

 space at the base of the median segment, the base broadly of 1 he 

 2nd abdominal segment, narrowly of the 3rd and 4th, and the whole 



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