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the cubital ; tlio appendiculate cellule is long ; the pefliclc is 

 bullated ; the form of the third transverse cubital cellule is as 

 in Notogonia^ not as in Palarus, the third transverse cubital 

 nervure being parallel with the second, the third cubital cellule 

 not being broader at the top tiian at the bottom. The head 

 appears longer than usual and is wider than the mesothorax. 



Ccenolarrn appendiculata, sp. n. 



Nigra ; fronte facieque dense argenteo pilosis ; pro- mesouotoque 



aureo pilosis ; alls hyalinis, apice fumatis, nervis fuscis. S • 

 Long. 6-7 mm. 



Hub. Barrackpore [Rothney). Coll. Rothney. 



Scape of antennfB shining, the lower side covered with 

 microscopic silvery pubescence; the flagellutn opaque, covered 

 with a white down. Vertex alutaceous ; the front thickly 

 covered with silvery pubescence ; the middle furrowed and 

 closely transversely striated ; there is a wide and deep furrow 

 in front of the ocellus, which is triangularly produced in 

 front. The face and oral region are thickly covered with 

 silvery pubescence, as are also the mandibles broadly at the 

 base. Palpi black, thickly covered with white pubescence. 

 Thorax alutaceous ; the pro- and mesonotum thickly covered 

 with a short golden pile, as is also the basal part of the median 

 segment on the base and sides ; the apical part is widely 

 furrowed in the middle and is transversely striated j the sides 

 are thickly covered with silvery and golden pubescence. 

 Pleurae alutaceous, thickly covered with silvery pubescence. 

 The prosternum is stoutly keeled down the middle ; its apex 

 has an oblique slope and is hollowed; the mesosternum is 

 keeled down the middle ; the metasternal process is wide, 

 large; the basal half much more deeply depressed than the 

 apical, whose lobes are somewhat triangular. Legs thickly 

 pruinose; the tibial and tarsal spines are dark rufo-testaceous. 

 Tegular rufous behind, pruinose. Wings hyaline, the apex 

 from the end of the radial cellule smoky ; the second recurrent 

 nervure is elbowed backwards distinctly in the middle and is 

 received shortly behind the middle of the cellule. Abdomen 

 pruinose. 



Leptolarra, gen. nov. 



Tarsi unusually long, the hinder twice the length of the 

 tibise ; the middle joints narrowed at the base, dilated towards 

 the apex ; the claws long and armed with a short tooth near 

 the base. Front and vertex with depressions as in Note- 

 gonia^ &c. ; there is only one ocellus ; eyes large, converging 



