i4: r, Cainerori. 



longer thau wiile ami opeu beliiiid ; the tootlied median segment 

 and the smootli, almost impnnctate abdomen. The thorax in 

 the known species is black, marked with yellow; the abdomen 

 metallic blue ; and the tibiae and tarsi are marked with white. 



L. nifofcinorata, Sp. noV. 9« ^^igra; ahdomme coeruho; 

 annula ßaijdli aiUenîiaruin, coxis trochantcribusque anteriori- 

 bns^ tihiarum hasi late, facie^ Linea pronoH, tegnlis albis ; alis 

 hyaUnis, nervis nicjris. — Long. 18 mm. 



H a b. Khasia (Coll. Rothuey). 



Antenuae black; the lOtli — 18 tli joints white beueath ; 

 the scape rufous. Head black ; the face and clypeus rufous, 

 darker iu the middle ; the npper side of the face next to the 

 eyes and the upper side of the clypens near the foveae, 

 yellow 5 the lower orbits on the inner side, uarrowed below, 

 dilated in the middle to near the lower ocellus and narrowed 

 again to near the middle and the lower part below, broadly 

 yellow. Face and clypeus closely and strongly pnnctured ; 

 the Vertex smooth ; the front finely pnnctured below the ocelli. 

 Mandibles black, rufous at the base and bcfore the teeth; the 

 middle pnnctured. Thorax black, the edge of the pronotum 

 narrowly behiud, and broader at the apex; the tubercles, te- 

 gulae, the scntellum and post-scutellum, yellow. Mesonotum 

 almost opaque and closely punctured. Scntellum smooth. Pro- 

 pleurae smooth, the hinder edge, except at the top, longitu- 

 dinally striated ; the striae small above, coarser below. Meta- 

 pleurae longitudinally striated, finely above, coarsely below. 

 Median segment finely and closely transversely striated ; the 

 areola is a little longer than wide ; the lateral keels bulje 

 round ly outwardly ; the teeth are large and stout. Legs 

 rufous ; the four anterior and the apex of the hinder coxae ; 

 the base of the tibiae broadly and the middle of the tarsi 

 broadly, white ; the base of the tibiae slightly and of their 

 apex broadly, black ; the metatarsus and the apex of the 

 terminal joint, black. Areolet oblique, narrowed at the top; 

 the width there being not much more than the space bounded 

 by the récurrent and the 2"^ trausverse cubital nervures ; the 

 récurrent nervure is received shortly beyond the middle of 

 the cellule. Pétiole smooth, impunctatc ; the gastrocoeli shal- 

 low, indistinct; the base finely striated; the 2ii<l segment finely 

 punctured ; the others almost impnnctate. 



The cf has the face and clypeus entirely yellow ; the 

 scape of the anteunae is yellow beueath ; on the base of the 

 mcsoplcurae, at its juuctiou with the sternum, is a somewhat 

 triangulär yellow mark. 



