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ICIINEUMOXIDjE. 



strongly pectinate below as to be almost dentate. The corneous 

 base of the rhomboidal areolet and the elongate legs are also 

 remarkable. 



Range. Simla. 



I can find this genus described in none of Mr. Cameron's papers 

 with which I am acquainted and, since a direct appeal to him for 

 a knowledge of the publication has elicited no reply, I am led to 

 regard it as a hitherto MS. name. 



177. Tegona rufipes, sp. n. 



Tegona ntjipcs, Cameron MS. ( $ ). 



c? $ . Head not very broad behind the prominent eyes, vertex 

 subconcave on either side, frons closely and finely punctate ; face 

 of tf flavous, of 5 with a broad flavidous transverse fascia beyond 

 its centre ; clypeus very little convex, dull, with elongate setae, 



hardly shorter than broad and 

 apically concave, of tf flavous, 

 and of $ with its apical half, 

 a dot at apices of cheeks and 

 the mandibles (except their 

 strong teeth), flavous. AnienncK 

 of <5 rufescent, filiform and 

 slender, becoming apically 

 darker. Thorax subcylindrical 

 and black, with a callosity in <3 

 before and in $ below the 

 radices, an obscure line before 

 them and the apex of the sub- 

 deplanate scutelluin, flavous ; 

 rnetathorax scabriculous-punc- 

 tate with no costae, the base 

 slightly impressed centrally 

 and the spiracles linear, Ab- 

 domen nitidulous and entirely 

 red ; basal segment elongate 

 and subparallel-sided ; terebra 



half the length of the basal segment, valvulae with dark pubescence 

 and apically obtuse, spiculared and strongly acuminate. Legs very 

 long and red, with all the coxae, trochanters, and in $ anterior 

 femora above, black ; onychii and apices of hind tibiae infuscate ; 

 hind tarsi (except the fulvous basal two-thirds of their first joint) 

 stramineous. Wings hyaline, slightly siliceous ; radix, tegulae, 

 and stigma fulvidous, costa and nervures infuscate ; areolet 

 rhomboidal, with its short petiole broadly corneous, emitting the 

 straight and unifenestrate recurrent nervure from its centre ; 

 nervelet distinct ; upper basal nervure emitted from the median 

 distinctly before the lower; radius slightly curved above the 



Fig. 62. Tegona rvfipes, Mori. 



