Records of Beat. 18o 



cream-oolour ; mesothorax and scutellum shiuinp.-, l)ase of 

 metathorax dull; legs piceous, with rather dilute brown 

 tarsi ; hind tibia and basitarsus with much biilliantly shining 

 silvery hair; al)doaien piceous, hind margins of segments 

 dorsally narrowly pallid ; last three segments granular, with 

 strong" piliferous punctures. 



Hub. Karachi, N.W. India {E, Comber; one is numbered 

 o9). British Museum. 



Kuown from the other Asiatic species by its very small 

 si>;e, punctured apical part of abdomen, dark mandibles, &c. 

 The first r. u. meets the first t.-c, whereas in A. picitamis, 

 A. nifogustra, &c. it goes considerably beyond it, 



Tetralonia Itucopoda, sp. n. 



S . — Length about 10^ mm. ; antennae 9|, reaching about 

 to fourth abdominal segment. 



Black, with the pubescence pure white except as follows : 

 ])ale fulvous tinted on occiput, strongly fulvous on thorax 

 above, fawn-colour on sixth (except extreme sides) and last 

 abdominal segments, ferruginous on inner side ot anterior 

 tarsi, dark fuscous on inner side of middle and hind pair; 

 head broad ; eyes pale green ; clypeus and large spot at base 

 of mandibles light lemon-yellow, the yellow of clypeus 

 rectangularly notched on each side ; labrum yellowish white, 

 with much white hair ; clypeus closely but sludlowjy 

 ])unctured ; scape very short, black; fiagellum long and 

 thick, bright ferruginous, the apical part strongly dusky 

 aljove ; mesothorax closely but not deeply punctured ; 

 tegulse light ferruginous. Wings tinged with brown, 

 neivures and stigma dark i'erruginous ; legs with much 

 white hair. Abdomen finely punctured, with the hind mai'gins 

 of the segments obscure reddish ; fifth segment densely 

 covered with appressed white tomentum, fouith with same, 

 except margin (broadly in middle, but gradually narrowing, 

 the tomentum reaching margin at sides), third like fourth, 

 except that the bare area is so broad in udddle as to reacii 

 halfway to base, second with the white tomentum confined 

 to extreme base and very broad antero-laterul corners 

 (reaching hind margin at extreme sides) ; first segment with 

 the usual long hair; a sharp black tooth at each side of 

 apical segment ; apical plate dark ferruginous, broad, 

 squarely truncate, not notched subapically ; last ventral 

 segment with a concave shining basin. Tarsi ferruginous 

 at a[)ex. 



Hub. Xasik, N.W. India (K Comber). British iluscum. 



