EXETASTES. 249 



tibiae ami of their femora, black, the central joints of the tarsi 

 clear white. Wings subhyaline, with the stigma and radix clear 

 fulvous ; tegulaB entirely stramineous and the nervelet short. 



Length 10 millim. 



ASSAM (W. F. Sadgley). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species is extremely closely allied to the common European 

 E. yuttatorius, Grav., and indeed may be little more than a local 

 form, though materially differing in the colour of its head and 

 legs, as well as in having the hind legs much longer, abdomen 

 duller, head broader, mesonotum less closely punctate and more 

 nitidulous, metathorax distinctly larger, areolet much more oblique 

 with its outer nervure quite straight, the radius less curved and 

 the nervelet longer. I have seen but a single example. 



175. Exetastes nitidus, Cam. 



Rretastes nitidus, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1906, 

 p. i>74 ( ? ). 



2 . A stout black species, with the abdomen and legs mainly 

 red, the petiole short and the wings slightly clouded. Head stout 

 and subbuccate behind the somewhat small eyes ; vertex finely and 

 sparsely punctate, frons closely and evenly ; face equally evenly 



Fig. Gl. Exetastes nitidus, Cain. 



punctate, clypeus and centre of mandibles ferruginous. Antennae 

 immaculate black, as long as body, attenuate towards the apices 

 and at base, with the first flagellar joint curved and twice as long 



