LIMNERIUH. 487 



trochanters flavous ; hind tarsi dark. Wings hyaline, with the 

 tegulae flavous, the stigma and nervures black ; areolet quadran- 

 gular, with the sides coalescent above, emitting the recurrent 

 nervure shortly beyond its centre. 



Length 5 milliin. 



PUXJAB : Simla, viii. 98 (Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



380. Limnerium indicum, Cam. 



Limneria indica, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 125 ($ ). 



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

 red. Head with the face closely, but not strongly, punctate and 

 with dense silvery pubescence ; mandibles and palpi flavous, the 

 former apically blackish ; lower side of vertex faintly trans- 

 aciculate close to the eyes. Antennas black, with dense white 

 pubescence, and the scape flaviclous apically beneath. Thorax 

 immaculate and with sparse white pubescence ; metathorax 



Fig. 141. Limnerium indicum, Cam. 



densely pubescent, closely punctate, with the base smoother, and 

 keeled down the middle, and, from the apex of this central 

 keel, run two curved keels, which do not curve backwards to the 

 base of the segment ; below the spiracle is a curved keel, straight 

 and oblique at the base, curved towards the apex of the segment ; 

 base of propleurae, and their apex above, closely stnate ; meso- 

 ipleuwe closely punctate and shallowly impressed centrally above. 

 Abdomen ferruginous, with the basal segment, except at its apex, 

 black venter flavidous ; terebral valvulse black. Legs fulvous ; 



