392 TESPID^. 



683. Icaria scitula, n. sp. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen finely shagreened, pruinose, 

 witli a silky lustre ; elypeus large, slightly convex, with a minute 

 tooth at apex ; pronotum Mith its anterior margin sharply trans- 

 verse and very narrowly recurved ; median segment steeply sloped, 

 nearly vertical, with a deep wide furrow down the middle, and the 

 sides rounded ; petiole of the abdomen not spherical at apex, base 

 of the 2nd segment not petiolate. Intense black ; a broad line on 

 the pronotum reaching back nearly to the tegulte, the scutellum and 

 postscutellum bright red ; the elypeus and sides of the median seg- 

 ment with a hoary whitish pile seen only in certain lights ; the claws 

 and the pulvilli of the tarsi testaceous ; wings hyaline, the fore 

 wing fuscous along its anterior margin, with a fuscous cloud in the 

 radial cell. 



Hah. Eangit Valley, Sikhim. ^ . Leiifjtli 8 ; exp. 20 mm. 



684. Icaria formosa, Saiiss. Mo?i. Guep. Soc. p. 37, $ ; Smith, Cat. 



V, p. 98. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen closely and finely punctured 

 and pilose, the punctures somewhat coarse and with a tendency to 

 appear like striae on the large 2nd abdominal segment ; median 

 segment with a broad deep longitudinal furrow which is bordered 

 by a sharp edge on each side ; 2nd abdominal segment very long, 

 and with a transverse depression along its posterior margin. 

 Fuscous black, covered all over by a greyish pile, visible clearly in 

 certain lights ; wings fusco-hyaline, obscurely brownish along the 

 costal margin of the fore wing. 



Hah. India {Smitli). 5 . Length 19 ; eocp. 37 mm. The type 

 and only specimen I have seen is in the British Museum. 



Genus PARAICARIA. 



Paraicaria, Gribodo, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. 1891, 

 p. 248. 



Type, P. hicolor, Grib. 

 llamje. Burma. 



Of small size, in form closely allied to Icaria, 

 p. loi^p^ ^'ith the same characters, except the neuration 

 icaria hicolor ^^ ^^® ^*^^® wing, which has only two cubital cells, 

 $. f. the 2nd receiving both recurrent nervures. 



685. Paraicaria bicolor, Grih. Bull. Soc. JE7it. Ital. 1891, p. 249. 



$ or ^ . Closely resembles Icaria scitula, from Sikhim, in 

 appearance, but smaller and not quite so closely punctured, the 

 apex of the elypeus more produced, and the head broader in pro- 

 portion. Black ; the pronotum, scutellum, and postscutellum red; 

 the elypeus narrowly along its anterior margin, the inner orbits to 

 as high as the base of the antennae, and the anterior tibite and 



