24 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell-Descriptions and 



Meroghssa denticauda, sp. n. 



<? .—Length about 11 mm. ; expanse 171 



Head and thorax black, with bright chrome-yellow marks ■ 

 abdomen piceous, with a broad suffused red band on first 

 segment and a red suffusion at bases of second and third and 

 an oblong pale yellow mark on each side of second ; face 

 narrow, inner orbital margins with a strong double curve ; 

 font densely and coarsely punctured; face below antenna 

 all deep chrome-yellow, except an elongate cuneiform brown 

 mark on each side of clypeus, very narrow lower edge o" 

 clypeus, and a narrow black border round supraclypeal mark • 

 supraclypeal mark extending upwards as a band to middle 



orb s S L TV. * 6Xtending UpWai ' ds aS *> anda ^x 



oi bits, gradually narrowing to a point at level of lateral 



oceh; malar space back; posterior orbits bounded by a 



yellow band failing below; labrum and mandibles each with 



a yellow spot; scape slender, yellow in front and redd 



behind ; flagellum dark above, dull yellowish beneath except 



the fourth antennal joint, which is dark ; mesotho ax veiy 



densely, strongly, and coarsely punctured, reddish black, with 



a pair of very narrow dull yellow lines, not reaching anteT- \ov 



o. posterior margins, and a slight yellow mark on each side 



Mum on g l" ; UP r r , b ° rd I r ° f P r ° th0rax ' tubercles band 

 (dull) on pleura extending downwards from tubercles scutel- 

 lum (except a median brown line), and postscute urn a I 

 yellow ; area of metathorax strongly fluted and with a yellowis 

 mark on each side ; femora dark reddish, the middle mi 

 quite bright red behind ; tibia, and tarsi ye low, suffused w t 

 reddish, hind ib,* with the basal two-fifths canaiy-yeHow 



;el1ow e spot XI feil t n ° U ^ ^ ] * -bbvalinefwHT I 



yellow spot ^mgs strongly orange-tinted, stigma and 



nervures amber-colour; b. n. falling "barely short SH-rn 

 first r.n. entering apical corner of first L.. 8eC o„d \ „' 

 reaching second am a short distance before the apex; second 

 s.m. about as broad above as below; abdomen finely punctured • 

 apex with two triangular teeth, forming a W mamin and 

 laterally with well-developed dark cercif minuteTy haSy al 



SLted but tLI ° f /•" W ^ ma, « has" not L 

 Tnln^wT " eVldent ^ a Mer °V l0SSa reI ^d to 

 ? .-Similar to the male, but differing as follows —Face 

 equally narrow, but the markings reduid to three "narrow 

 stripes, extending its whole length from the level of X 

 anterior ocellus; labrum and mandibles no ll -spotted 

 .cape ferruginous; thoracic markings the samef buT stripe 



