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VII. A New Species of Beiiibcx from the Khasia HiJh, Bcmhcx 

 Khasiana, sp. iiov. By Peter Cameron, communi- 

 cated hj George Alexander James Rothney, F.E.S. 



[Read Fi'hniary 3ril, 1904.] 



Lacteous-yellow ; two large oblique marks on the cl5'peiis above, 

 the occiput, except near the eyes, vertex, the front, except above, and 

 two large line.'? on the vipper half, roundly converging on the inner- 

 side above, a line, narrow above, broadly dilated below, on the 

 frontal keel, the prothorax, except for an irregular mark on the apex 

 of the pronotum, broader at the Ijase than at the apex, a line on the 

 apex of the scutellum, a shorter, narrower one on the post-scutellum, 

 two oblique marks, roundly dilated upwards on the inner-side and 

 with a sharp projection on the lower, inner-side on the base of the 

 metanotum, an irregular mark on the sides on the top of the apical 

 slope, the pleura?, except for an irregular line on the ba.«!e of tlie 

 meso- above, the sutures, an irregular broad line on the upper half 

 of the metapleura3 above, two large marks on the centre of the meso- 

 sterniim and a mark on the sides at the apex, black. First abdominal 

 .segment black, with a yellow mark, narrowed gradually on the 

 inner-side and extending on to the ventral STirface ; the 2nd segment 

 is black on the extreme base ; its apex is more broadly black, the 

 band dilated backwards in the middle and having there two broad, 

 large projecting marks united to it ; the base of the 3rd segment 

 black, with two broad marks near the centre, its apex more broadly 

 black and dilated backwards in the middle, the projection being 

 gradually narrowed ; the 4th and 5th segments are similarly marked ; 

 the apical entirely black. Ventral surface black, except on the 

 sides, slightly, of the basal three segments. Legs pallid yellow ; the 

 coxa! for the greater part and the femora broadly black above. Tarsi 

 stout ; the anterior with the joints broad ; the 2nd, 3rd and 4th 

 narrow at the base, broadly dilated at the apex ; the spines long, 

 .stout, rufous ; the metatarsus is not much narrowed at the base, 

 with the anterior and not at all with the posterior. Calcaria narrow, 

 sharply pointed, reaching close to the middle of the metatarsus ; the 

 2nd, 3rd and 4th joints become successively shorter and narrower 

 on the anterior. 



Length 20 mm. 



The $ I do not know. Comes near, in Bingham's system, to 



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



