204 Mr. T. D. A. Oockerell — Descriptions and 



thin black hair ; middle of mesothorax with very sparse 

 punctures ; thorax black-haired above, but anteriorly with a 

 broad band of pale ochreous ; mesopleura with pale ochreous- 

 tinted hair, but posteriorly to this it is black. Legs black, 

 with black hair, but long pale hair on anterior tarsi poste- 

 riorly, and some pale hair on their tibiae ; hind femora sharply 

 keeled beneath ; hind tibise robust and curved ; tegulse black 

 or nearly, not punctured. Wings strongly suffused with 

 brown, but not opaque, beautifully violaceous iridescent. 

 Abdomen rather narrow, not very densely punctured, bare, 

 with short black hair, long at apex, first segment black- 

 haired ; underside of abdomen with much pale ochreous hair. 



Ootacamund, India, 7500 ft, Dec. 24-31, 1913 {Fletcher, 1) . 

 Two specimens. 



Rather like X. collaris, Lep., to which it runs in Bingham's 

 table, but easily separated by the parallel orbits and other 

 characters. 



Prosopis absolutely Cameron. 



? . — Chapra, Bengal; bred from munj-grass stems, April- 

 May 1010 (Mackenzie : Fletcher, 10). 



The markings are very pale, really cream-colour ; the 

 lunate spot which Bingham describes as being at the base of 

 the clypeus is supraclypeal. 



Tetraloniella chaprensis, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 10*5 mm., anterior wing 8 mm. 



Robust, black, with the clypeus, most of labium and of base 

 of mandibles yellow ; apical part of mandibles black, with an 

 orange stripe; maxillary palpi five-jointed, joints measuring 

 in p: (2) 128, (3) 192, (4) 112, (5) 96 ; eyes reddish; facial 

 quadrangle about square ; hair of head pale, with an ochreous 

 tint, brighter on occiput ; scape and first two flagellar joints 

 almost entirely black, rest of flagellum bright chestnut-red ; 

 thorax above with bright fox-red hair, dense and not very 

 long; pleura with pale hair, becoming white beneath; tegulaa 

 clear ferruginous. Wings strongly dusky ; stigma and 

 nervures ferruginous ; second s.m. oblique, but scarcely 

 narrowed above; first r. n. meeting second t.-c. Legs black, 

 the tarsi ferruginous apically ; hair of legs mainly pale 

 ochreous, but dark on anterior tarsi, dark chocolate on middle 

 tarsi, and black on inner side of hind tibiae and basitarsi ; on 

 outer side of hind tibiae and basitarsi it is stiff and white, 

 glittering, but the tuft on hind knees is strongly reddened. 



