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377. Limnerium crassifemur, Thorns. 



Limneria crassifemur, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xi, 1887, p. 1106 



(<?$) 

 Eulimneria crassifemur, Schmiedeknecht. Ichn. Opusc. 1908, 



p. 1657(^2). 

 Limnerium longiventre, Cameron MS. 



t? $ . An elongate, black species, with the legs, except basally, 

 red ; femora distinctly stout and the hind ones apically black ; 

 hind tibiae testaceous, with their apices and a band before the base 

 black ; hind tarsi dark ; longitudinal metanotal impression niti- 

 dulous ; petiole with its lateral foveae deep. 



Length 6-9 millim. 



PUNJAB : Simla, ix. 98 (Col. Nurse) ; CEYLON : Matale, vii. and 

 viii. 01 (E. E. Green). EUROPE. 



This species belongs to a very closely allied group, but its author 

 says that it may be recognised by the shining and subglabrous 

 metanotal areola, the distinctly close punctation of the mesopleurse, 

 the strongly buccate cheeks, longer and stouter mandibles, apically 

 subrotund clypeus and the distinctly dilated c? vertex. 



This insect is known to occur in Sweden and Germany, but its 

 distribution is doubtless very much wider and the present will 

 probably prove to be only the first of many distant records. 

 Mr. Green has bred three analogous females from larvse of an 

 unknown species of Psyche at Matale. 



378. Limnerium volens, Cam. 



Limneria volens, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 126 ($). 



$ . A black species, with the legs and abdomen, except basally, 

 red. Head with the face and clypeus coarsely shagreened, with 

 short white pubescence ; frons and vertex dull ; palpi and man- 

 dibles stramineous, with apices of the latter black. Antenna? 

 black, with pale pubescence, and slightly thickened towards their 

 apices. Thorax dull and immaculate; metanotum coarsely 

 shagreened, basally elevated and distinctly discrete from the post- 

 scutellum, the curved carina widely separated from the base, and, 

 behind it, an interrupted, longitudinal one ; the carina bordering 

 the apex indistinct at the top ; pleura with white pubescence ; 

 propleura? coarsely shagreened and not excavate, broadly elevated 

 basally and strongly trans-striate centrally below ; mesopleurse, 

 except centrally, strongly aciculate, with the base curved and 

 distinctly margined below ; mesosternum obliquely silicate before 

 the intermediate coxse ; metapleurse coarsely aciculate and basally 

 shortly impressed below the spiracles. Postscutellum circularly 

 foveolate and longitudinally striate on either side. Abdomen red, 

 with the first segment and the disc of the second, except apically, 

 black ; venter flavous ; terebral valvulse black. Leys fulvous ; 



