CHREUSA. 33 



sides of segments acutely margined and pale flavous beneath ; 

 anus broadly flavous ; terebra 2 millim. in length. Legs fulvous, 

 with the anterior coxae and trochanters flavidous, the former black 

 behind and laterally above ; hind coxae black, strongly punctate 

 and densely white-pilose. Wings hyaline, with the stigma and 

 nervures black, tegulae flavous ; radial cell lanceolate at both 

 extremities ; submarginal uervure carved and emitted from the 

 cubital a little before the broadly fenestrate second recurrent. 



Length 10 millim. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Eothney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum ; the hind legs are missing from 

 the coxse. 



6. Chreusa lutea, Cam. 



Chreusa lutea, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 212 ( $). 



A ferruginous species, with the coxae and the base of the 

 .antennae red. Head distinctly broader than the thorax, ferru- 

 ginous, with the punctate 

 and laterally white-pilose 

 face stramineous ; clypeus 

 punctate, with white pi- 

 losity, its apex rounded 

 and clearly discrete; man- 

 dibles stramineous, with 

 their apices black and tri- 

 angularly bideutate; vertex 

 somewhat coarsely punc- 

 tate; frons excavate and 

 centrally elevated, with the 

 elevation laterally carinate. 

 Antennae longer than the 

 body and slightly incrassate 

 towards their apices, black, 

 with the scape and first 

 flagellar joint red, the sixth 



Fig. 5. Chreusa lutea, Cam. 



to ninth clear white and darker above. Thorax ferruginous ; 

 pronotum apically triangularly prominent, with a second rounded 

 projection on the disc, propleura3 stramineous and stoutly strigose 

 below ; mesonotum closely punctate and very shortly pubescent; 

 mesopleune coarsely punctate above and strongly strigose below, 

 with broad, deeply impressed and vertically trans-striate sternauli ; 

 metanotum large and closely rugose, with the basally broad and 

 laterally oblique areola, external arese, transversely strigose and 

 laterally subparallel-sided petiolar area, and the large, apically 

 round,ed spiracular arese, distinct. Scutellwn longer than broad, 

 apically constricted, stoutly carinate laterally at the base, with 

 the basal fovea broad and deeply impressed. Abdomen ferru- 

 ginous, with the closely punctate second and third segments 



