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thickty covered with white hair, the latter strongly punctured. 

 Abdomen smooth, except the second segment, which is weakly 

 punctured ; gastiocoeli smooth, shallow. 



This species agrees fairly well with Hoplismenus, having the scutel- 

 lum as in that genus ; but the areola is not • ' wider than long " as in 

 the diagnosis of Ashmead : it is fully longer than wide, open at the 

 base, and the posterior median area projects roundly into it. The 

 lateral teeth are small, but distinct. The clypeus is short, transverse 

 at the apex ; the labrum proiects. 



3. — Haliphera fidvipes, sp. no v. 



Black; the face, clypeus, mandibles, palpi, upper inner orbits 

 narrowly, the lower half of the outer broadly — more broadly below 

 than above — a narrow line on the pronotum, tubercles, a mark on 

 the tegulse, scutellum, a line on the centre of the metanotum, 

 rounded and narrowed at the top and bottom, one-third of it in the 

 areola, two-thirds on the posterior median area, a broad line on the 

 first and a narrower line on the second abdominal segment, lemon- 

 yellow. Legs fulvous, the coxae black ; the fore trochanters 

 yellow, the middle yellow, black behind, the hinder entirely black. 

 Wings hyaline, highly iridescent, the nervures and stigma black. 

 Antennal scape yellow, the flagellum fuscous beneath, 6. 



Length 12 mm. 



Maskeliya, August. 



Face and clypeus distinct, but not very closely punctured, sparsely 

 covered with white pubescence ; front and vertex wrinkled irregularly. 

 Mesonotum closely, finely, but distinctly punctured ; the scutel- 

 lum with some scattered punctures. The basal three areae of 

 metanotum finely, closely, irregularly, transversely striated; the 

 lateral almost smooth at the base ; the posterior median obscuiely 

 striated at the base, the rest strongly transversely striated ; the 

 lateral areae with some stout oblique irregular striae. Propleurae indis- 

 tinctly , the mesopleurae more strongly and closely and the metapleurae 

 still more closely and strongly punctured, the latter two more or less 

 closely striated. Petiole smooth ; the second and third segments 

 closely, but not strongly punctured; the gastrocoeU longish, smooth, 

 and shining; the apical segments densely covered with short blackish 

 pubescence ; the apical half of the last yellow. 



Aluina,, gen. no v. 



Scutellum rounded, not flat, its basal three-fourths stoutly keeled. 

 Areola longer than broad, wider at the base than at the apex ; the 

 keels roundly curved, the apex slightly rounded inwardly ; its 



