EPHIALTES. 183 



base; flagellum filiform throughout, extending to centre of abdo- 

 men. Thorax with a small pale callosity before radix and a red 

 spot at base of mesopleurae ; mesonotum strongly nitidulous, with 

 short black pilosity, longitudinally coalesced punctures, and the 

 notauli reaching the centre ; mesopleurae and their sternum 

 nitidulous and finely though distinctly punctate, sternauli wanting; 

 metathorax with no areas, finely punctate and shining, with the 

 pleurae rougher and somewhat dull, the disc feebly bicarinate at 

 extreme base only ; lateral costae entire, spiracles small and oval, 

 apophyses wanting. Scutellum black, nitidulous, subdeplanate, 

 with sparse punctation and black pilosity. Abdomen immaculate, 

 parallel-sided, fully twice as long as, though not broader than, 



Fig. ^l.Epliialtes iridipennis, Mori. 



the thorax, scabrous, with the segments! apices nitidulous ; first 

 segment fully twice as long as broad and hardly constricted 

 basally ; thyridii of the second deeply impressed and extending to 

 centre ; segments two to five longer than broad and laterally 

 subiucrassate in the centre, though hardly tuberculate ; terebra 

 nearly half as long again as the body (30 millim.), distinctly and 

 shortly pectinate throughout and apically deflexed. Legs elongate, 

 clear red, with the hind tibi?eand tarsi blackish, their claws curved 

 and strongly lobate basally. Wings subhyaline and somewhat 

 narrow ; areolet triangular and subsessile, nervelet wanting ; 

 stigma blackish, radix and tegulas flavescent; lower wing with 

 basal abscissa of radius half as long again as the second recurrent 

 nervure ; nervellus slightly postfurcal and intercepted a little 

 above the centre. 



Length, <j 12, $ 23 millim. 



PUNJAB : Simla, vii. 97 (Col. Nurse} ; TENASSEKIM (DoJiertt/ 

 Ind. Mus.). 



Type in Col. Xtirse's collection. 



