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rounded. The four front tibise are darker coloured than the 

 hinder pair; the four front tarsi are almost entirely black. 



Resembles in coloration S. anthracinus, Sm., but that 

 belongs to the group with bidentate claws. 



Salius lugubrinus, sp. n. 



Niger, pruinosus ; alls hyaliiiis, fusco-bifasciatis. 2 . 

 Long. 7 mm. 



Antennae slightly pruinose ; the underside of the scape 

 thickly covered with short white hair. Front and vertex 

 almost bare ; the face and clypeus thickly covered with silvery 

 pubescence ; the apex of the clypeus transverse^ smooth, and 

 shining ; in the centre of the front is a narrow longitudinal 

 furrow. Apex of the mandibles reddish ; the palpi black, 

 thickly covered with white pubescence. Thorax alutaceous, 

 shining; metanotum smooth; on its apex are two longish 

 depressions. Legs black, pruinose, more thickly at the base. 

 Wings hyaline ; a large conical cloud extends from the base 

 of the cubital nervure along the transverse basal nervure to 

 the opposite side ; there is a large cloud occupying the 

 greater part of the radial cellule, the middle cubital cellules, 

 and the middle of the discoidal cellules on either side of the 

 second recurrent nervure to near the edge of the wing ; the 

 third cubital cellule is much narrowed above, being there 

 scarcely half the length of the second ; below it is slightly 

 longer; the first recurrent nei'vure is received near the base 

 of the apical third, the second shortly, but distinctly, before 

 the middle. Abdomen smooth and shining, pruinose ; the 

 hypopygiura is thickly covered with long fuscous hair. 



Pseudagenia lepcha, sp. n. 



Blue, the hinder femora for the greater part red ; the head 

 and thorax punctured and thickly covered with white pubes- 

 cence; the scutellum (except in the centre) closely longitu- 

 dinally striated; the median segment coarsely, irregularly 

 striated ; the wings fuscous hyaline, with a violaceous tinge ; 

 the nervures and stigma fuscous. $ d" . 



Long. 13-15 mm. 



Hab. Simla and Khasia. 



Antcnnse black, the scape with a blue tint and covered 

 with a white pile. Front and vertex closely and distinctly 

 punctured ; the clypeus, on the sides, bears some shallow 

 scattered punctures ; the raised centre is closely and distinctlv 



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