PSEUDETJGALTA. 



30. Pseudeugalta spinosa, Cam. 



Eugalta spinosa, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 139 ( $ ). 



Head plumbeous black, with the face, inner orbits to ocelli, outer 

 orbits at their lower two-thirds and the palpi, flavous ; frons and 

 vertex smooth, impunctate and subglabrous ; postocular orbits 

 red-marked ; face and clypeus 

 smooth, the former nitidulous 

 and sparsely infuscate-pilose, the 

 latter rufescent, with its apical 

 two-thirds depressed, the apex 

 laterally rounded and centrally 

 broadly excavate ; mandibles- 

 black, with the base red. An- 

 tennce black, with 'a broad 12- 

 jointed band beyond the centre 

 white ; scape black beneath, with 

 fulvous pile ; flagellum densely 

 and obscurely pubescent. Thorax- 

 dark red, with most of the pro- 

 pleurae, base of the mesonotum, 

 the metanotuni and the apical 

 half of the metapleurae, black; 

 Fig. 14. Pseudeugalta spinosa, Cam. meson otum closely punctate and 

 densely infuscate-pilose, with the 



sides of the raised apical lobe irregularly striate and the depressed 

 basal part transversely striate ; propleurae glabrous and nitidulous, 

 punctate above ; mesopleurse closely, the callosities coarsely, 

 punctate, the base strongly striate above and the apex centrally 

 glabrous; mesosternum shining, with elongate white pilosity; 

 metapleurae rugosely punctate, becoming reticulate apically and 

 beneath the radices. Scutellum and postscutellum punctate, the 

 former with elongate infuscate pilosity and the latter apically sub- 

 glabrous, with neither its base depressed nor sides margined ; 

 lateral scutellar foveae strongly striolate. Abdomen black, with all 

 the segmental apices and base of the petiole flavous ; first segment 

 basally rugose and apically smooth, with a curved, basally broad and 

 apically acuminate spine near its base below ; remaining segments 

 closely punctate ; terebra reflexed and a little longer than the 

 abdomen, with the valvulse densely and shortly black-pilose. Legs 

 stramineous, with the anterior coxae and femora black-lined ; hind 

 coxae above, trochanterellus, femora and apical half of their tibiae, 

 black ; hind calcaria and tarsi pure white, the two apical jointa 

 of the latter infuscate. Wings fulvescent hyaline ; stigma and 

 nervures black ; areolet small and subpetiolate, emitting the 

 recurrent nervure at its apical third. 

 Length 19 millim. 



ASSAM: Khasi Hills (Rothney, type); SIKKIM, iv.91 (Binrj- 

 Tiani). 



