74 1CIIK4SUMONID/E. 



slender, with the valvulae cbsoletely pilose. Leys flavous, with 

 the anterior coxa) and trochanters aud most oi' their tarsi in- 

 fuscate ; hind coxa3 and trochanters (except at base), apices 

 of tibia? and femora and tarsi, nigrescent; hind tibiae sinuate 

 before the base, the front ones with five ferruginous internal 

 spines and a pectiniform row at the apex. Wings hyaline, with 

 the radix and tegula) white; costa and stigma piceous; radius 

 hardly curved; areolet entirely wanting; second recurrent of 

 lower wings very strongly postfurcal, emitting the nerveilus from 

 its upper fifth. 



Length 13-14 millim. 



This species is much smaller than the broadly red E. strigosa 

 and has no metanotal impression ; it is more closely allied to 

 V. albitarsis, but all the abdominal segments are apicallv white, 

 the petiole is not trans-rugose, only the apices of the hind femora 

 are nigrescent, and the terebra is fully as long as the body. The 

 abdomen of the d 1 is distinctly compressed. 



SIKKIM (Bingham, type). ASSAM : Mahjain, Khasi Hills, 1000- 

 3000 ft., v. 1905 (Pusa coll.). 



Type in the British Museum. 



The 2 in the Pusa collection has the central rnesonotal lobe 

 laterally pale in front. A mutilated female in the [National Col- 

 lection, from the Northern Khasi Hills, has the terebra shorter 

 than the abdomen, but I cannot satisfy myself that it is not 

 broken. 



37. Eugalta vittata, sp. n. 



$ . A black and white species, with the scutellum entirely pale 

 and the femora alone rufescent ; terebra reflexed and distinctly 

 longer than the body. 



Length 15 millim. 



This species is so closely allied to E. line-arts as to need no 

 detailed description ; therefrom it may at once be known by its 

 slightly larger and distinctly stouter conformation ; the immaculate 

 black scape; broadly white frontal orbits and two discal mesonotal 

 vittae ; the evenly and closely punctate rnetathorax, which is not 

 at all scabriculous ; bright flavous scutellum and postscutellum ; 

 the broader stramineous apices of all the abdominal segments, of 

 which the first is basally immaculate and the fifth apically strongly 

 eraarginate ; the strongly reflexed terebra, which is fully a sixth 

 longer than the whole body ; the entirely immaculate trochanters 

 and anterior coxae; the hind coxae black, with only the bas<? 

 broadly stramineous above, whereas in E. linearis they are stra- 

 mineous with the upper side (except basally) black ; by the extreme 

 base of the hind tibiae being abruptly black, and only the apical 

 half of their last tarsal joint black ; and by the radial nervure of 

 the^hind wing being distinctly shorter before the second recurrent. 



Irom all other species of this genus it is instantly known by 

 the much greater space between the reception by the median 



