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flavous ; hind legs ferruginous with their tarsi, coxae, base of 

 trochanters and apices of tibiae, black. Wings hyaline, with the 

 nervures blackish and the stigma paler below; areolet shortly 

 petiolate, quadrate and as broad as long, emitting the recurrent 

 nervure from its centre. 



Length 6 millim. 



CEYLON : Maskeliya (E. E. Green}. 



384. Limnerium parvicarinatum, Gam. 



Limner ium parvicarinatum, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. 1906, p. 281 (<jf). 



J . A black species, with the legs mainly rufescent. Head : 

 clypeus with dense short grey pubescence, somewhat short and 

 broad, apically broadly rounded and basally indistinctly discrete ; 

 palpi white ; mandibles missing ; face hardly prominent, dull and 

 obsoletely punctate, with short dense pubescence ; frons and 

 vertex very closely and finely punctate. Antennas black and ex- 

 tending to the basal segment, with the scape fulvidous beneath. 

 Thorax very dull and immaculate, closely punctate and with short 

 brown pubescence, the notauli wanting ; metanotum basally 

 closely punctate ; basal lateral areae and basal area wanting ; 

 areola entirely coalescent with the subexcavate, scabriculous and 

 hardly trans-striate petiolar area, which is without lateral carinse ; 

 spiracles quite circular. Scutellum black. Abdomen immaculate 

 and subnitidulous, broadest behind its centre and becoming pilose 

 apically ; basal segment nitidulous, smooth and very obsoletely 

 punctate, postpetiole not abruptly widened ; val\ r ulee exserted 

 and somewhat large. Leys fulvous, with the anterior pairs paler, 

 and the anterior tibiae and tarsi white ; all coxae (except apices of 

 front ones) and basal joint of hind trochanters black ; hind tarsi 

 dark, with only the base of all their joints paler, their fulvous 

 tibiae distinctly paler at apex and indistinctly before their base. 

 Wings hyaline, with the tegulae and radix dull stramineous, the 

 stigma and nervures dark ; areolet distinctly petiolate and some- 

 what small, triangular, emitting the straight recurrent nervure 

 from slightly beyond its centre ; basal nervure not continuous. 



Length 7 millim. 



BALUCHISTAN : Quetta, vi. 02 (Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



This species differs from both L. quettaense and L. forticarinatum 

 in having the basal nervure not continuous through the median 

 and the metanotum with only the base and sides of the areola at 

 all distinctly carinate. The type has entirely lost its mandibles ; 

 I consider it is extremely improbable that they should be black, as 

 described by Cameron. 



A single male was captured at Quetta, in Baluchistan, during 

 June 1902. 



