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sparsely and distinctly punctate, not or hardly broader than long, 

 with the postscutelluni always very distinct and flavous throughout. 

 Abdomen fusiform, nitidulous, finely pubescent and very obsoletely 

 punctate ; flavous, with the basal half of the first four or five 

 segments black (type form with basal segment only centrally 

 flavous at its apex) ; basal segment little narrowed basally, uniin 

 pressed, with spiracles distinctly before its centre ; anus com- 

 pressed ; terebra and male valvulae fulvidous, stout and subexserted. 

 Legs flavous, with extreme base of anterior, and underside of 

 hind, coxae black ; anterior femora lined beneath, the intermediate 

 above, their trochanters above, basal half of hind trochanters, and 

 their femora except below, black ; hind tarsi and apical half of 

 their tibiae, as well as the unequal calcaria, red ; front calcaria 

 strongly curved. Wings with a rosy reflection, and a little in- 

 fuinate towards their apices ; radix and front of tegulae flavidous ; 

 costa and stigma fulvous, nervures a little darker. 



Length 8|-10| millim. 



KASHMIB, 5000-6000 ft., v. 01 (Col. Nurse, type) ; SIKKIM : 

 Darjiling ; BEXGAL : Pusa, i.-iii. 1905 and 1906 (P'usa coll.). 



Type $ in Col. Nurse's collection. 



Col. Nurse has kindly allowed me to describe the typical female 

 of this species. I have also examined two males and two females 

 from Pusa which are apparently referable to the same species, 

 though a little larger in size, with darker antennae and the hind 

 femora discally pale. 



183. Eponites scutellaris, sp. n. 



$ . A black and flavous species, with the wings a little clouded, 

 the scutellum distinctly transverse and large, and the postscutellum 

 represented by a flavous callosity on either side. 



Length 10 millim. 



BENGAL : Pusa, iii. 06. 



Type in the Pusa collection. 



This insect so closely resembles E. ruficornis as to need no 

 detailed description ; it may be instantly recognised from it by its 

 larger and very much broader scutellum ; by the postscutellum 

 being centrally obsolete and represented only by a transverse pale 

 callosity on either side. 



The only specimen I have seen was captured on Juar millet 

 (Andropogori). 



