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245. Paniscus intermedius, Cam. 



Paniscus intermedius, Cameron,* Spol. Zeyl. 1905, p. 125 (<$ $). 



J 5 . A fulvous species, with flavous markings. Head with 

 the face, mouth and orbits pale flavous ; ocellar region black ; ; 

 vertex not broad, obliquely and sharply constricted posteriorly. 

 Antenna? red, becoming darker apically. Thorax subflavidous, 

 with the pro- and meso-notum closely and very finely punctate, 

 and the notauli distinct, discally deeply impressed ; metanotum 

 closely and transversely aciculate, basally glabrous and apically 

 subreticulate. Scutellum stoutly carinate, with the carinae acumi- 

 nately convergent apically. Abdomen immaculate. Legs con- 

 colorous with the body, the anterior being the paler ; second joint 

 of hind tarsi distinctly shorter than the third and fourth united. 

 Wings hyaline, with the stigma inf uscate and the nervures blackish ; 

 areolet oblique and subpetiolate, with the outer nervure broadly 

 tenestrate ; second recurrent unisinuate and broadly bifenestrate ; 

 internal cubital nervure roundly and broadly curved, with no 

 nervelet ; nervellus intercepted near the bottom of its upper 

 fourth. 



Length 10-11 millim. 



PUNJAB : Kasauli, vi. 05 (Col. Bingham) ; CEYLON : Maskeliya 

 (E. E. Green, type), Puudaluoya (E. E. Green), Madulsima, v. 08 

 (T. Bainbrigge Fletcher}. 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species may be recognised from all its congeners by its 

 small size, the nervellus being intercepted at the bottom of the 

 upper fourth and not the upper third, and by the scutellar carinaa 

 apically coalescing into an acuminate angle, whereas in the re- 

 mainder of the species they do not extend to the apex or unite;, 

 moreover, the clypeal apex is more transverse and less rounded. 



246. Paniscus nigriventris, BrulU. 



Paniscus nigriventris, Brulle", Hist. Nat. Ins. Hyrn. iv, 1846, 



p. 157 (?). 

 Paniscus ceylonicm, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1897, p. 31 ( <j> ) ; 



cf. Spol. Zeyl. 1905, p. 127. 



j $ . Head clear flavous, with the occiput centrally fulvescent ; 

 mandibular teeth black and basally rufescent. Antennas as long 

 as body, with the scape testaceous throughout and the flagellum 

 black, becoming piceous apically beneath. Thorax with very fine 

 white pubescence; mesonotum immaculate; metathorax finely 

 and closely, but distinctly, trans-aciculate. Abdomen apically in- 

 fuscate ; terebra 4 millim. in length. Hind tarsi stramineous, 

 paler in the J Wings with the stigma blackish and the 

 nervures unicolorous black ; areolet with its external nervure 

 interrupted on the lower side ; nervelet distinct ; second recur- 

 rent nervure broadly bisinuate. 



Length 14 to nearly 25 millim. 



