52 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vou. XI, 
joints compressed; thorax shining, impunctate; stigma gently 
rounded below; second cubital cell longer on both radius and 
cubitus than third, which is twice as wide apically as basally; the 
transverse radius curved, joining the radius about the same distance 
from the second transverse cubitus as the second recurrent is from 
the same vein; claws cleft with the inner teeth exceeding the outer ; 
sheath straight above, truncate apically, oblique below. Head 
and posterior femora beyond middle, four posterior tarsi and the 
antennae black, the rest of the insect rufous; head and throax 
covered with short gray hairs; wings distinctly hyaline, venation 
dark brown. 
Male.—Length 5 mm. Differs from the above description of 
the female in having the abdomen, thorax and legs, except the 
anterior tibiae and the trochanter which are fulvous, dark piceous 
and the hairs on the thorax and the head blackish; hypopygidium 
rounded apically. 
South India. Described from one female from Marikuppam, 
collected October Ig, 1910, at an altitude of 3,500 feet; and from 
two males, one allotype, from Bangalore, collected September 12, 
IgI0O, at an altitude of 3,000 feet. 
Type and allotype in the Indian Museum; type No. *ts*, allo- 
type No. *ts*. 
Paratype.—Cat. No. 18909, U.S.N.M. 
Genus Entomostethus, Enslin. 
Entomostethus assamensis (Rohwer). 
One male and two females from Ghumti, Darjiling District, 
East Himalayas, collected July 1911, at an altitude of 4000 feet 
(Ff. H. Gravely): five females and four males from Kurseong, 
East Himalayas, collected July 1908, at an altitude of 5,000 feet; 
five females and eleven males from Darjiling, East Himalayas, col- 
lected September 29 1,408, at an altitude of 6,000 feet (E. Brunettt) ; 
nine females and ten males fron: the same locality, collected May 
29, I9I0, at an altitude of 7,000 feet (E. Brunetti); one female col- 
lected at the same locality and elevation, August 11, 1909 (J. T. 
Jenkins); one male from the same locality and elevation, collected 
August 9, 1909 (C. Paiva); and one male from Gangtok, Sikkim, 
collected September 8, 1909, at an altitude of 6,750 feet. 
Two males from Kurseong have the legs slightly darker than 
typical; and all the specimens indicate that the basitarsi are usual- 
ly black. The female has the sheath straight above and broadly 
rounded from the tip. 
This species differs from Jaticarinatus, Cameron, which may 
belong to the same genus, by the colour of the legs, as Cameron’s 
species is said to have the femora pale beneath. 
Entomostethus hirticornis (Rohwer). 
One female from Kurseong, East Himalayas, collected Septem- 
ber 7, 1909, at an altitude of 5,000 feet; four females from Ghumti, 
