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lateral lobes, and a slender median spine; penultimate segment 

 strongly dentate at sides, the margin next to the teeth not denticulate. 



Habitat— Rupshu,Ladak, 16,000 feet, July 23, 1897 (W. L.Abbott). 



In Friese's table this runs to A. affine Morawitz, but differs in 

 various particulars; for example, the lateral lobes at the end of the 

 abdomen have no inwardly-directed point and are not notched on 

 the outer side. There is the strongest resemblance to the Rocky 

 Mountain J., tenuiflorse Cockerel 1 ; superficially they appear the same, 

 but on close comparison many minor differences appear. 



A. philorum was described from a female obtained by the British 

 Tibet expedition, at an altitude of 13,000 feet in the Himalayas. 

 The male here recorded may, I think, be safely referred to it. 1 



Type.— Cat. No. 13534, U.S.N.M. 



PROANTHIDIUM KASHGARENSE, new species. 



Female. — Length about 10 mm.; robust, black with deep chrome- 

 yellow markings, the femora and the basal declivity of the abdomen 

 largely red; head and throax very densely, rather coarsely punctured, 

 the rather coarse pubescence rufofnlvous above, paler below, pale 

 yellowish-gray on pleura and sides of metathorax; face broad, eyes 

 converging below, dull green slightly suffused with reddish; clypeus 

 and broad lateral marks yellow, the latter broadly obliquely truncate 

 above, the lower side of the truncation on the orbit; lower edge of 

 clypeus black, with a strong transverse groove; mandibles yellow 

 except the broad edge, which bears many black teeth, a big one at 

 the end being followed by six very small ones, after which come 

 several big ones; an entire yellow band across occiput, broadened at 

 sides and ending in a sharp point; antennae black, joints 2, 5, and G 

 red beneath; mesothorax wholly black; tubercles largely yellow; 

 scutellum and axillae very broadly margined with yellow; axillae not 

 dentiform; scutellum projecting, with a sharp posterior edge, the 

 lateral corners subangulate but rounded; tegula? punctured, yellow 

 with a large rufous spot; wings dusky, strongly so in and beyond 

 marginal cell; b. n. going basal of t. m. ; first r. n. meeting first t. c; 

 second r. n. going well beyond second t. c; legs yellow except at 

 extreme base, the femora suffused with red; hair on inner side of 

 tarsi fulvous, on outer side pale golden ; abdomen with pale fulvous 

 hair, including the scopa; basin of first segment sharply margined; 

 apex broadly rounded, turned outwards; all the segments with broad 

 deep yellow bands, the first three or four rather narrowly interrupted 

 in middle, but none notched at sides. 



1 Since writing the above I have received a male of true A. philorum from the British Museum. It 

 differs from Doctor Abbott's insect in having large pale-yellow marks on the last abdominal segment, 

 and the first segment having a large pale-yellow patch on each side, continued mesad as a slender 

 scimitar-shaped mark. 



