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centre, and occiput more broadly above, black ; face obsoletely 

 punctate, with elongate pale pilosity and a small black central 

 spot ; clypeus subglabrous and basally sulcate transversely ; man- 

 dibles apically broadly black ; palpi stramineous. Antennas nigres- 

 cent ; scape closely punctate and black, with elongate pale 

 pilosity and its apex flavous ; flagellum basally piceous, with dense 

 and obsolete pubescence. Thorax flavous; mesonotum glabrous 

 and nitidulous, with a large black mark on each of the deplanate 

 and but indistinctly discrete lobes ; pro- and meso-pleura? black- 

 marked ; metathorax entirely glabrous and impunctate, with its 

 apex black-marked and no distinct basal impression ; metapleurac 

 entirely glabrous below, closely and strongly punctate above. 

 Scutelltim apically, and the postscutellum, black. Abdomen stronglv 

 punctate, with the anus smoother and the basal fovea glabrous ; 

 lirst segment black-lined throughout ; second to seventh centrally 



Fig. 41. Ephialtes nigromaculatus, Cam. 



black-lined, with the second to fifth bearing also smaller lateral 

 black marks; terebra as long as the body, with the valvulra black 

 and densely infuscate-pilose. Legs nitidulous, stout and densely 

 white-pilose, with the apices of the posterior trochanters and the 

 base of the hind tibiae black ; hind tarsi nigrescent. Winys clear 

 hyaline with the nervures and stiguia deep black ; areolet oblique, 

 and triangular above, emitting the recurrent nervure from its 

 apical third. 



Length 13-14 millim. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Rothney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



122. Ephialtes lachesis, sp. n. 



c? $ . A dull and linear species, with the abdomen three times 

 as long as the head and thorax ; black, with the ligula, palpi r 



