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throughout. TJtora.v with a linear flavescent mark before the 

 radices ; notauli not reaching tlie centre of the nitidulous meso- 

 notum ; mesopleurae somewhat closely and finely punctate, with 

 the lateral sulci large and their region entirely glabrous, sternauli 

 wanting; metathorax scabrous, with the pleurae finely punctate 

 and smoother, its disc indistinctly bicarinate basally ; spiracles 

 subcircular. Sciitelluin black, subcouvex, shining and not closely 

 punctate. Abdomen immaculate, cylindrical, fully as broad as the 

 thorax, and twice the length of the head and thorax ; basal seg- 

 ment not strongly elevated, longitudinally bicarinate to its centre 

 only ; second obliquely impressed to its centre ; the intermediate 

 segments not longer than broad, laterally strongly tuberculate, 

 with their apices hardly smoother ; terebra hardly longer than the 

 body, with the valvulae pilose and somewhat stout. Legs normal 

 and red, with the posterior tibiae and tarsi blackish ; apical joint 

 of the hind tarsi thrice as long as the penultimate, and all the 

 slender claws basally lobate. Wings siliceous ; stigma ferru- 

 ginous, radix and tegulae ochraceous ; areolet sessile and sub-irre- 

 gularly triangular; lower wings with the basal abscissa of the 

 radius nearly half as long again as the second recurrent nervure ; 

 nervellus slightly postfurcal and intercepted distinctly above the 

 centre. 



Length 12 millim. 



PUXJAB : Simla, iv. 97 (Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



I have seen a single 5 of this species in Col. Xurse's collection, 

 which had been identified by Cameron as a small form of E. m- 

 dipennis, from which, however, it very materially differs in the 

 very much stouter and more strongly tuberculate abdomen ; and, 

 in fact, it is very nearly allied indeed to Thomson's E. heteropus, but 

 the abdomen is more closely punctate, with more acute tubercle-^ 

 the basal segment is much stouter and subparallel-sided, the hind 

 legs are apically black and the radial abscissa of the hind wings is 

 distinctly a little shorter. 



124. Ephialtes iridipennis, sp. u. 



EpJtidUes iridipennis, Cam. MS. ($). 



J ? . A large linear black species, with dark stigma and obsolete 

 tubercles. Head immaculate, posteriorly buccate, but hardly 

 broader than the eyes ; vertex uitidulous and obsoletely punctate, 

 somewhat broad behind the ocelli and with the occiput centrally 

 emarginate ; face nitidulous and slightly elevated longitudinally in 

 the centre, with small sparse punctures and griseous pilosity; 

 clypeus rufescent, not broad, centrally depressed and punctate, 

 not laterally produced, but triangularly impressed before the apex ; 

 mandibles broad, obsoletely punctate, basally rufescent and cen- 

 "rally canaliculate towards the apex ; palpi testaceous. Antennas 

 obsoletely pilose and entirely black ; scape excised nearly to its 



