]84 P. Cameron. 



Legs stout ; the tarsi spiuose ; the hiader coxae large, pro- 

 jecting backwanls at the base. Abdomen with 7 dorsal seg- 

 meots ; the apex is aot very sharply pointed ; the ventral keel 

 is on segments 2, 3 and 4. Gastroeoeli large, deep. 



Belongs to the Phaeo</t^n/n/ ; and, in .^-s/ouf^rt'/'« arrange- 

 ment, comes uearest to Lfchnii.s, which is readily kuown from 

 it by the head being largely developed behind the eyes. 



P. erytbropUS Sp. nOV. cf Ni<^e.r, flitvo-maaditua; apice. 

 metanoti latu ßavo; pedilma vnfis, coxis troc]iantp.riJniüqiiti an- 

 Urioribus ßaois; coxis et trochnnter/bus poüluu'ft apiiU'.(]ii,n fe.- 

 moriim posticoruni nigris ; (dis /ujal/nis, stitjmate testnceo, nci'- 

 vis fusas. — Long.: 7 mm. 



Hab. Sikhim. 



Antennae longer than the body, the scape and joints 

 10 — 14 beneath white; the basai joints ofthe flagellnm bare, 

 the apieal covered with a microscopic down. Head black, the 

 face, npper half of the clypeus, tlie labrnm, the inner eye 

 orbits, the lower half of the onter, the niandibles. except at 

 the apex, and the palpi, pallid yellow. Face and clypens clo- 

 sely and distinctly j)unctnred and covered with white pn- 

 bescence ; on the middle of the face is a bellshaped black mark, 

 narrow at the top and becoming gradnally wider to the clypeal 

 foveae; the vertex is niinutely, and not vory distinctly, pnnctn- 

 red. The long palpi are lenion-yellow. Thorax black; the npper 

 and lower edges of the prothorax, the scntellnm. post-scntollnm, 

 the apieal slope of the median segment, the yellow extending la- 

 terally to the end of the spiracnlar areae, two spots nnder the 

 hinder wings, a mark immediately above the middle coxae, broa- 

 dest ou the top, and a small, somewhat similar, mark over the 

 hinder coxae, lemon-yellow. Mesonotnm closely, nniformly and 

 rather strongly pnnctured; the scntellnm is not so closely pnnc- 

 tnred and is covered with longish fnscons hair; the post-scntel- 

 Inm is impnnctate. Median segment closely rngosely pnnctnred; 

 the basai dépression is smooth and shining ; the areola is nearly 

 twice lons;er than wide; and it is stoutly irregnlarly reticnlated; 

 the apieal slope of the segment is also irregnlarly reticnlated. 

 Pleurae closelv and distinctly punctni-ed; the lower part of the 

 proplenrae is smooth and shining ; the apex is crennlated. Wings 

 clear hyaline ; the stigma testaceous; the nervures black. Legs 

 rufous; the 4 anterior coxae and trochanters yellow; tlie hinder 

 coxae black, broadly yellow above; the trochanters black, the 

 basai joint vellowish above ; the apex of the femora black. Ab- 

 domen black: the apices of the basai 3 servuients broadly and the 

 apieal 2 eutirely yellow; the basai 3 ventral serments are 

 broadly banded with pale yellow. (To be continued.) 



