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398. Tarytia basimacula, Cam. 



Tarytia basimacula, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1907, p. 588 (5). 



$ . A testaceous red species. Head flavous, with the ocellar 

 region triangularly black ; face and base of clypeus closely punc- 

 tate, the latter apically glabrous ; frons and vertex closely, but 

 more strongly, punctate ; scrobes elongate and deeply impressed, 



Fig. 147. Tarytia basimacula, Cam. 



separated by a cariua ; eyes large and internally parallel ; ocelli 

 large and pale, with the basal pair further apart than from the eyes. 

 Thorax : mesonotum closely punctate, with two broad flavescent 

 stripes ; metanotum rugosely punctate, with indistinct carinae and 

 the apical declivity strongly trans-striate ; pleurae closely and 

 distinctly punctate, with the meso- and meta-pleurae broadly fulvous 

 basally. Scutellum roundly convex. Abdomen with the Hrst seg- 

 ment basally, and the basal half of the second discally, black ; anus 

 infuscate ; second segment and the postpetiole closely and dis- 

 tinctly aciculate ; third basally substriate ; terebra 2 millim. in 

 length. Leys somewhat paler than the body and immaculate. Wings 

 hyaline, with the stigma dark testaceous and the nervures black. 



Length 8 millim. 



BOMBAY : Deesa, x. 99 (Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Xurse's collection. 



I am strongly of the opinion that this is the alternate sex of 

 T. cariniscutis, but since they have been described as distinct and 

 we at present know but single examples of each species of the 

 genus, it is better to treat them temporarily as different, more 

 especially as the present specimen has the notauli eutirely apical 

 and not extending to the disc, while in T, cariniscutis they extend 

 to the centre of the mesonotum. 



