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Genus PACHYPROTASIS Hartig. 



PACHYPROTASIS BRUNETTII, new species. 



Apparently closest to Pachij protasis alhocincta CsLmeron, hut differs 

 in a number of ways from Cameron's description, being readily 

 separated by the black apices of the hind femora. From Pachypro- 

 tasis violaceodorsata to which it shows affinities it may be separated 

 by the sides and venter being almost entirely black. 



Male. — Length 7 mm. Anterior margin of the clypeus shallowly, 

 subsquarely emarginate, the lobes triangular, obtusely pointed; 

 labrum longer than the clypeus, truncate at the apex; supraclypeal 

 fovea deep, pimctiform; supraclypeal area uniformly convex, rec- 

 tangular in outline; median fovea punctiform, small; a small crescent 

 shaped fovea in front of the anterior ocellus; antennal furrows poorly 

 defined; oceUi in nearly an equilateral triangle; postocellar area 

 rectangular in outline, twice as broad as the cephal-caudad length; 

 lateral margin of the postocellar area decidedly latrad of the posterior 

 ocelli; antennae long, slender, flattened, beneath with two carinae, 

 the third and fourth joints subequal; head subopaque with rather 

 coarse punctures above the antennae, the remaining portion of the 

 head being rather sparsely punctured; prescutum, scutum, and 

 scutellum shining, with sparse, distinct, well defined punctures; 

 mesepisternum opaque, rather coarsely granular; third cubital cell 

 but little longer that the second, receiving the transverse radius a 

 little beyond the middle; second recurrent joining the cubitus the 

 length of the second transverse cubitus in the third cubital cell. Blue- 

 black, variegated with stramineous ; head black; clypeus, labrum, man- 

 dibles except piceous apices, head below the antennae, inner orbits 

 almost to the vertex, posterior orbits to above the middle of the eye 

 and an oblique spot from the upper margin of the eyes to the occiput, 

 stramineous; scape with a small yellow spot beneath; palpi piceous 

 thorax blue-black; sides of the prescutum, the posterior margin of 

 the pronotum both dorsally and laterally, tegulae, spot on the anterior 

 margin of the mesepisternum, posterior margin of the mesepimeron^ 

 metepistcrnum, spot on the scutellum, scutellar appendage and met- 

 anotum, stramineous; abdomen blue-black; the venter and lozenge 

 shaped spots on the third to sixth tergites stramineous; legs strami- 

 neous; the coxae, apices of four anterior femora above, four anterior 

 tibiae above, entire apices of the posterior femora, the posterior tibiae 

 and all of the tarsi, black; wdngs hyaline with a faint yellowish tinge, 

 iridescent; venation black. 



Darjiling, Northern India. Described from three males (one, type), 

 collected at an altitude of 7,000 feet, September 19, 1005, by Brunetti 

 for whom the species is named. The species are labelled as being 

 collected on flowers and hedges in gardens. 



Type.— Csit. No. 18533, U.S.N.M. 



