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longitudinally ; vertical orbits broadly and triangularly, frontal 

 more narrowly, flavous ; face, mouth, and cheeks entirely 

 flavous, the first convex, coarsely and evenly punctate, not dis- 

 crete from the apically truncate clypeus ; mandibles not large, 

 apically infuscate. Antennae filiform and shortly pilose, black, 

 with the scape flavous beneath. Thorax stout and broader than 

 the head ; mesonotum shining and very finely punctate and pilose, 

 black, with large elongate callosities before and a line beneath 

 radix, as well as a triangular mark on the mesopleurae, bright 

 flavous ; notauli somewhat deeply impressed ; metathorax sub- 

 glabrous and nitidulous, with all the areas (except the basal area) 

 well-defined ; areola twice as long as broad and nearly parallel- 

 sided, emitting costulae much before its centre; petiolar area 



Fig. 76. Exoclius xanthopus, Cam. 



short, entire and basally strong. Scutellum, postscutellura, and 

 both freni flavous. Abdomen elongate-fusiform, immaculate black, 

 finely punctulate and pilose throughout ; basal segment strongly 

 margined laterally and discally bicarinate to near its apex ; venter 

 and the elongate ventral valvulae piceous. Legs bright flavous, 

 with only the pulvilli, hind coxae, and basal joint of their tro- 

 chanters black ; posterior calcaria very unequal in length, with 

 the inner hind calcar distinctly shorter than the apical width 

 of its tibia. Wings hyaline and not broad ; radix and teguloe 

 flavous, stigma infuscate, nervures brownish ; upper basal by no 

 means continuous with the lower ; nervellus subopposite and 

 intercepted distinctly below its centre. 



Lemjtli 7 millim. 



PUNJAB : Simla, v. 97 (Col. Nurse). 



Tt/fje in Col. Nurse's collection. 



The above description has been drawn from the type. 



