BARYLYPA. 419 



{5| milliin. in length), with the scape flavous beneath ; basal 

 flagellar joint fully twice as long as the second. Thorax sparsely 

 punctate and distinctly pilose ; red, with mesonotuin basally and 

 centrally at the apex, mesosternuin sometimes, and most of the 

 metanotum and its pleurae, black ; large apical lateral marks on 

 mesonotum, lateral marks on metanotum, on base and apex of 

 mesopieurse, and metapleurae, flavous ; mesonotum basally trans- 

 striate ; metanotum irregularly longitudinally aciculate and often 

 subreticulate. SouttHlum flavous, with the frenum black. Abdo- 

 men testaceous and paler beneath ; basal segment basally infuscate, 

 with the spiracles shortly before its apex and sometimes promi- 

 nent ; second segment, and sometimes anus, discally black ; terebra 

 as long as the basal segment, red, with the valvulae black and 

 apically subclavate. Legs : anterior pairs flavous, with the red 

 intermediate femora basally black ; hind legs blackish, with the 

 coxae and the greater part of the femora red, and the tibiae basally 

 r pale. Wings sometimes tinged with fulvous ; second recurrent 

 nervure continuous with the submarginal and fenestrate below its 

 centre ; stigma and costa luteous, the latter below and the 

 nervures blackish ; anal angle of front wings subcorneous from 

 the sinus. 



Length 10-12 millim. 



BALUCHISTAN: Quetta, viii.03 and vi.04 (Col, ZV'wrse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



:311. Barylypa erythrocera, Cam. 



Ban/lypa en/throcera, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1906, p. 279($). 



$ . A bright red and flavous species, with no black markings. 

 Head subpilose, with the orbits broadly, mandibles, palpi and 

 the closely punctate face and clypeus, flavous ; frons and vertex 

 -strongly punctate, with the former not centrally carinate; the 

 strong occipital carina and ocelli, though not their intervening 

 -space, black. Antennce clear red (4 millim. in length) and sub- 

 filiform throughout ; scape flavous ; postannellus and basal flagellar 

 joint blackish, the latter exactly double the length of the second. 

 Thorax bright red and without black markings ; mesonotum 

 laterally near apex, and pleurae broadly, flavous ; pro- and ineso- 

 thorax sparsely and strongly punctate; the mesopleurae more 

 strongly, with their apices trans-aciculate ; metanotum trans- 

 reticulate, discally subiinpressed and basally glabrous on either 

 side ; metapleurse irregularly rugulose. Scutellum flavous. Ab- 

 domen testaceous and paler below, with the anus very slightly 

 darkened and the disc of the second segment black ; terebra as 

 Ions as the basal segment, red, with the valvulae black and sub- 

 clavate. Legs red, with the anterior paler; hind trochanterellus, 

 and apices of the internally darkened hind tibiae, black; hind 

 .tarsi apically blackish. Wings hyaline and somewhat deter- 



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