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punctate and deeply discrete from the apically depressed and 

 entirely immaculate clypeus ; mandibles black and strong but not 

 broad, with the apical teeth acuminate and of equal length ; 

 cheeks very short. Antenna} distinctly shorter than body, sub- 

 filiform, with the joints short and cylindrical; scape and pedicellus 

 stramineous beneath. Thorax subparallel-sided, evenly punctate 

 throughout, black, with a callosity before radix alone flavous ; 

 pronotum immaculate ; mesonotum somewhat deplanate, notauli 

 short but deeply impressed ; metathorax with no trace of areae, 

 but with long sparse griseous 

 pilosit)* with no fulvous tinge 

 and the areolar region glabrous ; 

 sparsely punctate below lateral 

 cariiije ; spiracles nearly circular. 

 Scutellum black, distinctly punc- 

 tate and pilose, not convex. 

 Abdomen cylindrical and parallel- 

 sided, evenly but not at all 

 closely punctate, nitidulous, black, 

 with the apices of the five basal 

 segments somewhat broadly, and 

 of the two following very nar- 

 rovvlv, stramineous and not late- 

 rally rufescent; basal angles of 



. ,?'..' the second and third concolorous ; 



Exenttti albicincta. Mori. ,, ,, n i 



all the segments apically gla- 

 brous ; the first apically broader 



than long and discally subdeplanate ; the second to fifth broadly, 

 but not convexly, tuberculate on either side and triangularly 

 impressed disc-ally; venter testaceous and plicate throughout; 

 terebra a little longer than the abdomen, with the valvulae black 

 and but shortly pilose. Legs not elongate, pale stramineous, with 

 all the tarsal claws small and blackish, strongly lobate basally ; 

 hind legs with the coxae entirely, base of trochanters, apices of 

 tibia? and of femora, and a band before the base of the former, 

 black ; hind femora red, their tarsi only apically infuscate. 

 Wings normal and hyaline ; radix and tegulse stramineous ; 

 costa and stigma black ; areolet somewhat small, exactly tri- 

 angular, shortly petiolate and emitting the recurrent nervure 

 from very near its apex ; lower wings with first recurrent sub- 

 opposite and nearly straight, emitting the straight nervellus from 

 distinctly below its centre. 



Length 14-15| millim. 



SIKKIM, iv. 91 and iv-vi. 1900 (Bingliarti). 



Type in British Museum. 



Very like Philopsyclie albobalteata, but larger, with the abdomen 

 sparsely punctate and the terebra longer. 



