182 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerdl — Descriptions and 



facial quadrangle much broader than liigli ; clypeus, lateral 

 fare-marks (reaching to level of anteniue, but tlie upper end 

 receding from eye), mandibles except apex, occipital band 

 interrupted in the middle, anterior lateral coruers of meso- 

 thorax (forming a sort of l), axillje, large mark on each side 

 of scutellum, underside of anterior and middle femora, patch 

 at apex of liind femora, outer side of tibiae and basitarsi, 

 very broad abdominal bands on segments 1 to 6 (interrupted 

 widely on first segments, successively more narrowly on the 

 others), and seventh segment (except in middle, and ends of 

 lateral teeth), all bright yelloio ; lower margin of clypeus 

 dark ; antennse black ; sides of face, and front, with much 

 ■white hair; cheeks and pleura with much white hair; hair 

 of head and thorax above very pale ochreous-tinted ; scutel- 

 lum rounded, emarginate in middle ; tegular yellow in front, 

 p'.ceous behind, except the margin. Wings dusky ; b. n. 

 going basad of t.-m. ; first r, n. entering extreme basal 

 corner of second s.m., and second r. n. going hardly beyoiul 

 its end ; hind femora with an obtuse subbasal tooth beneath. 

 Sides of abdomen with white hair; fifth segment with a 

 yellow tooth on each side, sixth with longer teeth, which are 

 largely black ; apical segment with thi-ee teeth, the middle 

 one short, the others rather longer, directed outwardly. 



Hab. Quetta, Sept. 190!) {E. Comber). British Museum. 



In Friese^s table of pahcarctic species this runs to 36, 

 and agrees with A. florcntinuni in the divergnig apical 

 teeth of abdomen, but with A. sept emspino sum in having 

 white hair at sides of abdomen, instead of bundles of ochreous 

 hair. Compared with A. forentiniim, it differs conspicuously 

 in the much shorter apical teeth of abdomen. Nurse states 

 that A. jlorentimiiu coacasicinn (Jiad.) is common in the 

 alfalfa fields at Quetta, and 1 naturally expected this insect 

 to be identical with it. 1 have never seen authentic caucasi- 

 cvm, but, as described by Friese and Dnsmet y Alonso, it is a 

 colour-variety oi' fl or enii/wm, not differing structurally. 



Allodape pumilio, sp. n. 



? . — Length a little over 4 mm. 



Black, w ith clear hyaline wings ; stigma and nervures 

 pale testaceous ; labrum very dark reddish, with large 

 punctures ; mandibles black : pale ochreous-tinted face- 

 mark with the upper part broad as usual, the lower narrower, 

 parallel-sided, not expanded laterally; front and sides of 

 vertex shining ; flagellum dark reddish beneath ; tegulte 

 hvaline-testaceous with a cream-coloured spot; tubercles 



