496 



390. Anilasta varicoxa, Thorns. 



Anilasta varicoxa, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xi, 1887, p. 1173 (tf $ ). 



c? $ . A black species, with the abdomen and legs mainly red, 

 the mouth and tegulae white, and the metanotal costulse strong. 

 Head very strongly constricted behind the prominent eyes ; face 

 with white pubescence ; mandibles not basally reflexed below, 

 small and white, with the palpi concolorous. Antenna with the 

 flagellum elongate and the scape not pale beneath. Thorax pilose; 

 autespecular stria? nitidulous ; metanotal costuke strong ; areola 

 laterally entire, basal area narrow and petiolate ; spiracles circular. 

 Abdomen dull red, with the two basal segments (except apical 

 angles of the second), and the base of the third discally, black ; 

 terebra black and not extending beyond the anus. Legs red, with 

 the coxae (excepting front ones beneath and apices of the inter- 

 mediate), the hind tarsi, and both extremities of their tibia?, black. 

 Wings with the tegulae white ; areolet oblique, small and not as 

 long as its petiole ; apical abscissa of radial nervure elongate ; 

 nervellus not intercepted. 



Lewftli 6 millim. 



CEYLON: Madulsima, xi. 08 (T. Bainbrigr/e Fletcher). 



The Ceylon female agrees so perfectly with Thomson's somewhat 

 short diagnosis that I have but little hesitation in ascribing it to 

 that species. 



Genus ANGITIA, Holmg. 



Angitia, Holmgren, Ofv. Sv. Ak. Forh. 1858, p. 327 ; id., Sv. Ak. 

 Handl. 1858, no. 8, p. 106. 



GEXOTYPE, Limneria fenestralis, Holmg. 



Head not cubical ; cheeks neither elongate nor buccate, with 

 their costae inflexed ; clypeus apically simple, with small lateral 

 foveae ; mandibles not stout, narrowed towards the subequal 

 apical teeth. Antennal migelluin usually filiform ; scape small 

 :md often white beneath. Thorax cylindrical, with the raeso- 

 sternum not transverse ; propleurae not or hardly aciculate ; 

 metathoracic carinae distinct, areola confluent with the not trans- 

 versely rugose petiolar area, costula? strong, basal area small and 

 triangular ; spiracles circular. Abdomen with the glymmal sulci 

 -of basal segment distinct and the postpetiole somewhat widened ; 

 second segment longer than the third, with the thyridii usually 

 obsolete ; seventh segment of $ often excised ; terebra reflexed 

 and about half the length of the abdomen. Legs not stout ; hind 

 tibiae often infuscate at apex and before base, hardly externally 

 spinulose ; tarsal claws subpectinate ; trochanters usuallv pale. 

 Wings with the tegulae always, and the stigma usually, pale ; 

 .areola as a rule small, petiolate and emitting the recurrent 



