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brownish ochraceous, annulated with piceous; pronotiirn elongate, 

 anterior lobe longer Iban the posterior and wilb a disLincl anterior 

 collar, its disk moderately convex and its latéral margins roundly 

 sinuate, posterier lobe broadly ridged at base; scutellum foveately 

 impressed on disk; corium moderately ampliately rounded near 

 middle; membrane slightly passing the abdominal apex; abdomen 

 beneath thickly, finely, greyishly sericeous. 

 Length $,9 mill. 



Hab. : N. W. India; Mussoorle. 



T his species appertains to the subgenus/Ep^ws Hahx, and is allird 

 to the South African N. (JEptus) hoitentota Reut, 



Pamly SiLDIDJ]. 



Salda inconstans sp. n, — Pitchy-black, thickly shortly palely 

 pilose; legs ochraceous, more or less streaked with black orpiceous; 

 corium spotted with greyish-ochraceous, llrst and second spots at 

 about one third from base and each enclosing a dark spot, one on 

 each side ofapex of clavus, two (larger) neareachof thèse on corium, 

 a large irregular spot on disk of corium before membrane and 

 another spot on subcostal area near apex; membrane pale greyish- 

 ochraceous, a black spot near each outer margin, the apex and cen- 

 tral longitudinal suffusions pale fuseous, the base narrowly piceous; 

 antennœ with the third and fourth joints subequal in length or third 

 slightly longer than fourth; rostrum reaching the posterior coxa?; 

 pronotum more than twice broader than long, the latéral margins 

 roundly oblique, the posterior margin moderatly concavely sinuate 

 before scutellum, and with a ti-ansverse impression on disk; scutel- 

 lum broad, trausversely impressed before middle; corium with tlie 

 costal margin moderately convexly rounded ; membrane passing the 

 abdominal apex; tibiœ spinulose. 



Var. a. Corium with a single ochraceous spot on costal margin 

 before apex, membrane darker the suffusions piceous. 

 Var. h. Corium with a central apical pale spot before membrane 

 with is marked and shaded as in typical form. 



Length 4 1/2 mill. 



Hab. : Punjab; Simla Hills, Matiana (Annandale). 



Under stones at edges of mountain streams; jumping and flying 

 at edge of pond (N. Annandale). 



Salda Fletcheri sp. n. — Black; apical joint of antennfc, 

 rostrum, cox;e, legs and abdominal segmentai margins more or 

 less ochraceous; corium black wilh the costal margin, a spot near 



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