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oblique, large, deep, striated ; suturiform articulation, wide, deep, 

 striated ; the third segment is closely rugosely punctured ; the 

 furrow on its apex is obscurely striated ; the fourth segment is 

 punctured, but not closely or strongly; the furrow at its base wide, 

 deep, striated ; that on its apex crenulated. The fifth and following 

 segments smooth ; the apical two are yellowish ; on the centre of 

 the fifth is a deep wide furrow on the apical half ; on the sides, at 

 the base, is a wide carved striated furrow. 



18. — Iphiaulax fulvopilosus, sp. nov. 



Luteous, the antennae black ; wings yellowish-hyaline, to near 

 the transverse basal nervure, beyond that dark fulvous ; a 

 hyaline cloud occupying the greater part of the first cubital cellule 

 and a smaller one along the outer side of the recurrent nervure ; 

 the base of the stigma fulvous. Pubescence dense, fulvous, ?. 



Length 17 ; terebra 6 mm. 



Kandy, June. 



Front and vertex sparsely, the face thickly covered with long 

 fulvous pubescence. Tips of mandibles black. Palpi fulvous, 

 covered with fulvous hair. Middle of raised part of first abdomi- 

 nal segment stoutly keeled from near the base ; its apex strongly 

 punctured. Basal area on second segment large, triangular, 

 obliquely striated, the oblique striae, united by curved short ones, 

 forming irregular reticulations ; the sides of the segment at the 

 base depressed, without oblique furrows ; its apical part and the 

 other segments all over closely, longitudinally striated. Suturi- 

 form articulation narrow, deep, striated, not cleft at the sides ; the 

 furrows on the following three segments are wider and more dilated 

 in the middle ; the basal four segments together are as long as the 

 thorax. Legs stout ; the basal four joints of the fore tarsi as long as 

 the tibiae. The abdomen thickly covered with fulvous pubescence. 



19. — Iphiaulax greeni, sp. nov. 



Black, the scape of antennae, head, thorax, and four front legs 

 red ; wings dark fuscous, the nervures and stigma black, ?. 



Length 11 ; terebra 17 to 18 mm. 



Peradeniya, August and November. 



Face rugosely punctured, a smooth line, gradually widened 

 towards the apex in the centre ; sparsely covered with long fuscous 

 hair ; frontal furrow shallow. First abdominal segment in the 

 centre with four stout irregular longitudinal keels ; the outer two 

 unite into one which goes to the apex ; the sides of the raised 

 central part margined ; on the sides of the central keels are irregu- 

 lar, more or less transverse keels ; the lateral depressions irregularly 

 transversely striated. The area on the second segment is long, 



N 8(17)05 



