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399. Tarytia flavo-orbitalis, Can,. 



larytia flavo-orbitali*, Cameron, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1907, p. 589 ( $ ). 



<? $ . A slender testaceous species with only the mandibular 

 apices, interocellar space, terebral valvula?, the two basal abdominal 

 segments dorsally, and the following more or less disc-ally, black ; 

 apex and sometimes base of hind tibia?, their tarsi and the 

 flagellum, slightly infuscate. Head somewhat narrow, dull and 

 pubescent, sometimes with the orbits distinctly flavous ; scrobes 

 large and separated by a carina ; 

 face distinctly punctate, with the 

 epistoma elevated and the dis- 

 tinctly discrete clypeus sparsely 

 punctate and apically margined ; 

 cheeks shorter than the base of 

 the stout and equideutate 

 mandibles. Antennae filiform and 

 extending to the apex of the 

 postpetiole. Thorax closely punc- 

 tate and dull, with the "notauli 

 deeply impressed ; metanotal areae 

 fine and not very distinct ; areola 

 elongate and hexagonal, emitting 

 costula? before its centre ; petiolar 

 area elongate and subparallel- 

 sided. Scutellvm convex and not 

 laterally margined. Abdomen 

 linear, with the strongly aciculata 

 second segment broadest; basal segment . linear to its centre, 

 thence fusiform and aciculate, with its apex (in c? ) often pale ; 

 remaining segments very strongly compressed, with only the 

 acute disc usually blackish ; d" valv ula3 large and exsertecl ; 

 terebra as long as the two basal segments or rather more than 

 half the abdominal length, spicula deflexed. Legs slender and 

 flavidous. Wings broad and not ample, with the radix, tegulae 

 and stigma testaceous, the nervures hardly darker; second re- 

 current broadly fenestrate above, hardly longer than the 

 submarginal nervure and close to it ; basal uervnre not con- 

 tinuous ;. nervelltis a little curved but not geniculate. 

 Length 4^-8 millim. 



BENGAL : Pusa, viii. and ix., and Chapra, vii. (Pusa coll.), 

 Katihar, x. 07 (Ind. Mus.) ; BOMBAY: Deesa, x. 98 (Col. AW*v 

 type), Surat, x. (Pusa coll.); MADBAS: Quilon, Travancore, xi. 08 

 (JV. Annandale) ; CEYLON : Trincomali, ix. 09, and Peradeniya, 

 s.09 (E. E. Green) : BUEMA : Bhamo, vii. 86 (L. Fea). 

 Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



Specimens have been taken by Mr. C. Paiva, of the Indian 

 Museum, on board-ship, four miles off Tuticorin, 25. v. 08, and ten 

 miles off Coconada, Madras coast, 17. iv. 08. 



Fig. 148. 

 larytia flavo-orbitalis, Cat 



