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Tarytia Cameron, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 1907, p. 588. 



13. Tarytia Tninuta, sp. n. 



A pretty little red and black species, with the legs and orbits broadly pale. Head 

 bright pale flavous with only the occiput, ocellar region and sometimes centre of frons 

 black ; vertex not narrow, cheeks broad, mandibles subequal in length and aplcally 

 infuscate ; clypeus discreted and transverse, apically broadly rounded. Antennse lono-er 

 than head and thorax, black or nigrescent, hardly paler basally beneath, with the flagellar 

 joints elongate. Thorax dull and not very finely punctate, brick-red with dorsum of 

 metathorax, centre of mesonotum throughout and the scutellar region black ; notauli and 

 sternauli wanting, but the former represented by a flavidous line to disc on either side ; 

 metathorax declived throughout, with fine and determinate arese. Scutellum black. 

 Abdomen black and somewhat dull, with very fine sculpture ; basal segment elongate, 

 nitidulous and apically subincrassate ; second rarely pale ; venter entirely stramineous, 

 with the concolorous $ valvules elongately exserted, and the deflexed black terebra 

 two-thirds length of abdomen. Legs very slender, pale testaceous, with the hind tibias 

 and tarsi subinfuscate. Wings small, broad and quite hyaline ; stigma large, triangular 

 and pale testaceous ; the discal nervures and especially basal abscissa of radius with the 

 single elongate intercubital nervure strong, remainder weak with the apical nervures and 

 basal part of median obsolete ; radial cell very short and apically reflexed ; nervures of 

 hind wing obsolete with the second recurrent, part of median and the subopposite 

 nervellus alone traceable. Length, 2| — 3 mm. ^?. 



Much smaller than the Lidian species of this genus and rendered distinct by its 

 many obsolete nervures and peculiar coloration. 



The typical female was captured at an altitude of between eight hundred and a 

 thousand feet at Cascade Estate in Mahe during January, 1909 ; but half a dozen 

 including both sexes had already been secured upon three occasions on the marshy 

 plateau and adjacent jvmgle at Mare aux Cochons in August and September, 1908, in 

 Silhouette. It is ahnost certainly one of the indigenous species, probably of an archaic 

 type. To the best of my knowledge the genus is confined to the Oriental Region. 



Cremastus Gravenhorst, Ichn. Europ., iii (1829), 730. 



14. Cremastus pu7ictus, sp. n. 



A somewhat small black species with the legs and most of head rufescent, orbits 

 flavidous. Head transverse and dull, ferrugineous or badious with the orbits more broadly 

 internally, the face, clypeus and mouth, flavous ; face somewhat coarsely punctate, dull 

 and centrally elevated, clypeus smoother and apically margined ; upper tooth of the 

 apically nigrescent mandibles slightly the longer. Antennfe slender, filiform and black 

 with the scape paler beneath ; basal flagellar joints elongate. Thorax subcylindrical and 

 black with the mesonotum piceous, pleune and ])rothorax with extreme apex of metathorax 

 laterally ferrugineous; mesonotum strongly and evenly punctate, very dull, with nutauli 

 apically deep and extenduig shallowly to disc ; metathorax finely scabriculous with 

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