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20. — Skeatia pantho7ice, sp. nov. 



Black ; face, clypeus, mandibles at the base, palpi, inner orbits, 

 their top, the lower two-thirds of the outer more broadly, malar 

 space, the edge of the pronotum, the lower edge of the propleurse 

 more broadly, an irregular small mark on the middle of the meso- 

 notum, scutellum, post-scutellum, scutellar keels, the sides of the 

 apical slope of the metanotum. united above by a narrow line to a 

 spot which is longer than broad, rounded above, transverse 

 below, tubercles, a moderately sized roundish mark on the lower part 

 of the mesopleurae at the base, a smaller — half the size — somewhat 

 conical one on the lower side of the apex, a large mark behind the 

 wings, partly on the top, partly on the pleurae, a quadrangular mark 

 twice longer than broad on the centre of the metapleurse, the meso- 

 pleurae and the apices of the abdominal segments , pale yellow. Legs : 

 the four anterior yellow, tinged with fulvous, the hinder fulvous, 

 the coxae yellowish, black at the base and with a black large mark 

 on the apex above, the lower half the larger, and projecting beyond 

 it at the apex ; the trochanters, apex of femora, the base of tibia? 

 more narrowly, their apex more broadly, black ; tlie tarsi yellowish. 

 Wmgs hyaline, the stigma and nervures black, 6. 



Length 11 mm. 



Kandy. Bred from Gyclosia panthona. 



Face and upper half of clypeus strongly punctured. Front stoutly 

 irregularly striated. Mesonotum strongly, closely, the scutellum 

 sparsely punctured. Metanotum behind the keel closely rugosely 

 punctured, the rest closely strongly reticulated, the reticulations 

 converging into striae at the apex. Propleurse, except at the base, 

 strongly, closely striated. Mesopleurae closely striated (more closely 

 and less strongly than the propleurae) obliquely above at the base, 

 running from the tubercles to the base of the pleurae ; the striae on 

 the lower half are not so oblique and run from the base to the apex. 

 Base of the metapleurse with some irregular widely separated keels, 

 the rest closely , strongly , obliquely striated. Petiole obscurely acicu- 

 lated ; post-petiole smooth and shining ; the second segment thickly 

 covered with round, clearly separated punctures ; the third similarly 

 but much less strongly punctured. The area on the base of the 

 metanotum is wide at the base, not separated from the basal furrow ; 

 it becomes obliquely narrowed towards the apex. 



Although this species has the same host as S. cyclosioe it is not, 

 I beheve, its male. The two may be separated thus : 



Post-petiole strongly aciculated and punctured ; the mark on tlio 

 centre of metanotum broader than long ; one long mark en 

 the mesopleurae, cyclosice. 

 R 8(17)05 



