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lias a rounded curve. Abdomen pruinose, longer than tiie 

 head and thorax united; the apex of tlie pygidium is rufous, 

 the apex of tlie hypopjgium has the sides thickly covered 

 witii pale fulvous pubescence. 



Leptolarra longitarsis, sp. n. 



Nigra ; alis fuscis, fere violaceis ; metaaoto striolato. $ . 

 Long. 8-9 mm. 



Hah. Barrackpore (Rothneg). Coll. Rothnej. 



Scape of antenuiB aciculate I, covered with a |)ale down; 

 the underside with a smooth, sliining, glabrous keel in the 

 middle. Front and vertex shining, aciculated; the depressions 

 deep, there are three on the front ; below tlie ocelli is a 

 deep furrow. Face aciculated ; the clypeus smooth and 

 shining. The base of the mandibles aciculated, opaque ; 

 the apical part smooth and shining ; palpi densely covered 

 with white pubescence. Pronotum and mesonotum strongly 

 aciculated, almost punctured, and covered with a minute pale 

 down ; the scutellum is closely punctured, but not quite so 

 much so as the mesonotum; the postscutellum almost im- 

 punctate. Median segment strongly and closely transversely 

 striated all over; down the middle is a narrow but distinct 

 furrow; the oblique apex is more closely and finely punctured, 

 except above ; in the middle is a wide furrow, narrowed 

 below. The base of the propleuree is strongly aciculated 

 and obscurely striated below ; above near the apex is a curved 

 furrow, thickly covered with white pubescence. Mesopleurge 

 strongly aciculated ; in the middle on the basal half is a deep 

 longitudinal furrow. JMetapleuraj closely and finely longi- 

 tudinally striated. Mesostemum furrowed down the middle, 

 and with a transverse furrow behind the middle coxaj. 

 Metasternum hollowed ; the sides raised ; in the middle at 

 the base is a short, stout, keel ; its apex is incised, the sides 

 rounded. Legs pruinose; most of the tarsal spines are 

 rufous. Wings hyaline, strongly iridescent, slightly fuscous ; 

 the nervures are black. Abdomen shining, pruinose ; the 

 apices of the segments with pale bands; pygidium acicu- 

 lated, less strongly at the base ; the penultimate ventral 

 segment is strongly, but not very closely punctured; the 

 hypopygium is more closely and finely punctured, except 

 at the base. 



Leptolarra reticulata, sp. n. 



Nigra ; alis flavo-hyalinis, nervis fuscis ; metauoto reticulato. § . 

 Long. 8 mm. 



Ilab. Barrackpore {Rothney). Coll. Rothney. 



