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VI. Descriptions of New S'pccics of Cryptina? from the 

 Khasia Hills, Assam. By Peter Cameron, com- 

 immicated ly George Alexander James Rothney, 

 F.E.S. 



[Read February 3rd, 1904.] 



The species described here are in the collection of Mr. 

 G, A. J. Rothney. 



Etha lacteiventris, sp. nov. 



Phimbeous black : the face, clypeus, mandibles, palpi, the inner 

 orbits, the outer broadly on the lower-side, whitish-yellow : the 

 base of the propleur* broadly, the mark incised below, a line on 

 the pronotum, teguhv, tubercles, sciitellums, the apex of the meta- 

 notum — the mark squarely narrowed in the middle behind — an 

 oblique, pyriform mark on the apex of the metapleuraj aljove, rmited 

 to a much lai'ger mark, which is prolonged downwards at the Imsc 

 to the longitudinal furrow ; an irregular, somewhat triangular, mark 

 under the hind -wings and down the middle is a large, oblique mark, 

 sharply pointed at the base, and the apices of the abdominal segments, 

 yellow. Legs fulvous, the middle femora and apex of middle tarsi 

 darker, their coxse and trochanters white, the hinder coxse white, 

 black above, except at the base, the femora and tibi^ dark rufous, 

 the femora above and the apex of the tibiae blackish, the tarsi white, 

 black at the base. Wings fulvo-hyaline, the stigma obscure testaceous, 

 paler at the base. Joints 7-12 of the antennte clear white, the 

 scape and base of the flagellum brownish beneath. $ . 



Length 11 ; terebra 4 mm. 



Face closely punctured, the clypeus smooth, as are the front and 

 vertex ; the front distinctly depressed and with a wide furrow in 

 the middle. Thorax smooth ; the sternal furrow wide, smooth ; the 

 other furrows are crenulated. First abdominal segment smooth, the 

 lateral tubercles large ; the other segments are faintly aciculated. 



Etha khasiana, sp. nov. 



Black ; the face, clypeus, the inner orbits narrowly to the middle, 

 the outer entirely from shortly above the middle, the mandibles, 

 palpi, a broad line on the lower part of the propleurse, a narrower 

 one, not reaching to the apex, shortly above the middle ; lower down, 

 extending from the middle to the apex, a much larger mark, which, 



TRANS. ENT, SOC. LOND. 1904. — PART I. (APRIL) 



