Tlymenoiitera from Northern India. 'lil 



striated ; the spiracular area behind strongly aciculated, the 

 rest coarsely transversely striated ; the other basal areae 

 strongly but not closely punctured ; the apical areae smooth 

 at the base, the rest with stout, clearly separated, transverse 

 keels. Upper part of propleurse strongly punctured, the base 

 aciculated, the middle below stoutly striated ; mesopleurse 

 strongly punctured, the base above and the apex below 

 striated ; metapleurae punctured strongly all over. Post- 

 petiole strongly and closely punctured, raised in the middle 

 and obliquely narrowed at the apex ; the second and third 

 abdominal segments closely punctured, the apical thickly 

 covered with fulvous hair ; the gastrocoeli large, the base on 

 the inner side with a stout keel, the outer with two keels. 



Comes near to A. parvimaculata ; it is larger, wants the 

 white bands on the postpetiole, the hinder trochanters are 

 yellow, not black ; the black mark on the face and clypeus 

 is much smaller and the middle coxae are yellow. 



Algathia varipes, sp. n. 



Black ; the face, clypeus, labrum, the inner orbits from 

 the middle of the ocelli to the white face, an oblique some- 

 wbat triangular mark near the eyes opposite the hinder 

 ocelli, the lower three fourths of the outer orbits (the mark 

 narrow above, broader below), palpi, mandibles (except their 

 teeth), a line on the pronotum (curved at the base), scutel- 

 lums, the posterior intermedian, the apex of spiracular end 

 of the tooth-bearing areae of median segment, a mark above 

 the hind coxae, the apices of the first and second abdominal 

 segments broadly (the lines dilated in the middle), the sixth 

 slightly in the middle, and the whole of the last segment pale 

 yellow ; the four front legs fulvous, the coxae and trochanters 

 pale yellow; the hinder coxae black, broadly yellow in the 

 middle above ; the basal joint of the trochanters yellow, the 

 apical joint and the base of femora rufous, the rest of the 

 femora, almost the apical half of the tibiae, and the base of 

 metatarsus black ; the rest of tarsi white, the hinder spurs 

 dark rufous. Wings hyaline, the costa, stigma, and nervures 

 black. 6 . 



Length 9 mm. 



Hah. Khasia Hills. Coll. Rothney. 



Antennal scape beneath and the fourteenth to twenty-fifth 

 joints white ; scape thickly covered with long fuscous hair, 

 the flagellum with short black pubescence. Face, clypeus, 

 and vertex closely and strongly punctured, thickly covered 

 with short fuscous hair. Mesonotum closely punctured, 



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