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Genus DELOPIA, Cam. 

 Delopia, Cameron, Zeits. Hym.-Dipt. iii, 1903, p. 304. 



GENOTYPE, D. cariniscutis, Cam. 



Eyes nude and internally emarginate ; cheeks thrice the length 

 of the second antennal joint ; clypeus basally not discrete and 

 apically broadly rounded. Metanotum short, obliquely declivous 

 throughout, gradually constricted apically, longitudinally carinate, 

 with two entire area; an either side, but the discal one wanting : 

 metanotal spiracles about thrice as long as broad ; metapleural 

 carina? entire. Scutellum subdeplanate, broader than long, and 

 laterally impressed before the carinate sides. Abdominal petiole 

 elongate, slender and glabrous ; postpetiole but very slightly 

 dilated. Legs slender and short, with the calcaria fully halt' the 

 length of the metatarsi ; claws small and simple ; tibirc and tarsi 

 spinulose. Wings with the areolet shortly petiolate, and the basal 

 nervure not continuous through the median. 



Range. Sikkim. 



The conformation and abdominal structure of this genus is 

 analogous with those of Camponlex ; it is, however, readily recog- 

 nised by the discally subdeplanate, laterally sulcate and carinate 

 scutellum, and by the peculiar disposition of the metanotal 



361. Delopia cariniscutis, Cam. 



Delopia cariniscutis, Cameron, Zeits. Hvm.-Dipt. iii, 190-3, 

 p. 337 ($). 



$ . A black species, with the abdomen centrally and the tibiae 

 mainly red. Head black, with only the mandibles testaceous 

 red above ; face and clypeus 

 closely, distinctly and uniformly 

 punctate and white pubescent, 

 with the epistoma subprominent. 

 Antennce with the flagellum brun- 

 neous beneath. Thora.v closely 

 punctate and immaculate ; meta- 

 notum irregularly Irans-striate, 

 broadly impressed centrally, with*- 

 a narrow glabrous sulcus on the 

 exareate disc; its sides with a 

 large basal, and an elongate apical, 



Fig 134 - area ; pro- and meso-pleuwe close- 



ly punctate, with the former 

 glabrous and nitidulous below; 



metapleurae closely rugulose below, and more coarsely and 

 obliquely striate above, the carinae. Scutellum subdeplanate and 

 hardly higher than the mesonotum, irregularly rugose, less strongly 



