500 



Abdomen sublinear, with the aciculate second segment not broader 

 than the third and distinctly longer than the first ; basal segment 

 parallel-sided to its centre and thence very gradually widened 

 to the apex, which is about one-third as broad as its total length 

 and very finely aciculate ; base of first two segments broadly, and 

 of all the remainder narrowly, detenninately black ; terebra 

 black and about half the length of the abdomen. Leys pale fulvous, 

 with the coxae substraniineous ; hind tibiae testaceous, with the 

 base and apex blackish. Wings broad but not ample ; radix and 

 tegulae dull testaceous, the stigma and nervures ferruginous ;. 

 radial cell short and apically subreflexed; subinarginal nervure 

 longer than half the recurrent, which is emitted closely beyond it ; 

 basal nervure continuous; nervellus postfurcal, and subgeniculate 

 centrally but not intercepted. 



Length 8 millim. 



CEYLON : Weligama, i.08 (T. Bainbrlgge Fletcher, type), Kuru- 

 negalla, i. 10 (G. G. Gilpin Brown). 



Type in the author's collection. 



This species has much the facies of Tarytia Jlavo-orbitalis, but 

 differs to an appreciable extent both in colour and sculpture ; the 

 black base of the bright red abdominal segments is distinctive. 



393. Cremastus flavus, Cam. 



Paurolexis Jlunts, Cameron,* Jouru. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1906,. 

 p.283($). 



$ . A pale flavous species with the mandibular teeth, scrobes, 

 ocelli, three inesonotal stripes, basal metanotal area, prosternal 

 and mesopleural spots, mesosternal and metapleural lines, scutellar 

 fovea, and frenum laterally, base of all the abdominal segments 

 and centre of the first two, basal segment beneath, terebral 

 valvulae, base of hind femora and of both their trochanteral joints 

 narrowly, black. Antennae extending to near apex of basal seg- 

 ment, filiform, with the flagellum ferruginous, becoming basally 

 infuscate. Metanotum strongly nitidulous, obsoletely punctate and 

 pilose, with the complete arese very finely delineated ; areola twice 

 as long as broad. Scutelhim evenly and somewhat strongly convex, 

 and nitidulous throughout. Abdomen with the apical segments 

 rufescent basally, and apically glaucous white; terebra about 

 three-fourths the abdominal length. Leys: hind pair not longer 

 than the abdomen, with the apical half of their tibiae infuscate 

 beneath and a small dark spot before the base. Stigma flavous, 

 with its apex ferruginous beneath. 



Length 8| millim. 



BALUCHISTAN: Quetta, vi.03 (Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's Collection. 



All the species described by Thomson (Opusc. Ent. xiv, p. 1444) 

 are mainly black, but the present one is most closely allied in the 

 conformation of its glymmal sulci to C. signatus, Holmg. (Sv. Ak. 



