152 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



and ending in a blunt point : viewed in profile, the entire length of 

 the appendages is seen to lie in a single plane. Lower appendages 

 very short, pointed. 



9 . (Allotype.) Length of abdomen, including anal appendages, 

 33"5 mm. ; length of hind wing, 25 mm. 



Labium and genge yellow. Labrum glossy black. Clypeus dark 

 reddish-brown. Frons and upper surface of head glossy black, 

 without conspicuous green reflections. Occiput broadly edged with 

 yellowish-brown. First and second joints of antenna brownish ; 

 filament lost. 



Prothorax brown, with a pair of large oval yellow spots on the 

 middle lobe ; hind margin rounded, slightly raised, yellow at sides. 

 Dorsum of thorax proper black, with a narrow yellow line on each 

 side, as in the male. Mesepimeron mainly blackish ; light brown 

 inferiorly (anteriorly) ; a short yellow line bordering the humeral 

 suture basally, with an elongated spot of yellowish-white lying beside 

 and below it. Metepisternum yellow below (before) the metastigma ; 

 mainly brown above (behind) the metastigma. Mesinfraepisternum 

 as in male. Metepimeron principally yellow ; a superior blackish 

 spot near the pectus. Pectus as in male. 



Legs as in male. 



Wings : 15-16 postnodals in fore wings and 13 in hind wings. 

 Wings entirely hyaline. Pterostigma as in male. 



Abdomen dark chocolate-brown, glossy ; the sutures between 

 the more proximal segments yellow ; some green reflections on 

 segments 1 and 2. Anal appendages glossy black, short, subconical. 

 Ovipositor, including the palps, not projecting beyond the level of 

 the end of the abdomen ; each of the lower valves with a convex 

 ventral surface in the apical third of its length, armed with a longi- 

 tudinal row of saw-like teeth ; palps curving strongly downwards. 



A NEW EMBIDOBIA FEOM INDIA. 



By a. a. Girault. 



Reared from the eggs of Embia major, Imms, at Bhowali, 

 Kumaon, Himalaya, India, August 24th, 1912 (A. D. Imms). 



Embidobia brittanica, new species. 



Female. — Length, 0.70 mm. Differs notably from the genotype 

 in having the abdomen, legs, scape, and funicles 2-5 golden yellow. 

 Fore wing dusky rather broadly at apex and with a faint cross-stripe 

 from the marginal vein (hyaline in the genotype). The abdomen at 

 apical fourth, however, and sometimes a cross-band between base 

 and middle, dorsad, dusky ; otherwise black or dusky black. Differs 

 farther as follows : Funicle 1 is somewhat shorter, that is, slightly 

 longer than wide ; the other funicle joints also shorter, that is, wider 

 than long, 5 twice wider than long ; the propodeum is striate between 

 the spiracles, at first (mesad) longitudinally, then obliquely ; segment 2 



