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and the legs, pale testaceous ; the abdomen beneath and the base 

 of the antennae infuscate testaceous ; the wings subinfuinate, 

 with the nervures and stigma black ; the abdomen nearly sessile,' 

 narrow, with its underside concavely depressed and the segments 

 very narrowly mai-gined with red ; the hind femora basally, and 

 the coxae and apices of the tibiae piceous. 



Lencjth about 5 inillim. 



CEYLON : Nuwara Eliya (teste Motsclmlsky). 



I can do no more than reproduce Motschulsky's description, as 

 .no one has mentioned the species since his time, and I have seen 

 no individuals that could be referred to it ; he only adds that the 

 breadth of the head is one-sixth the length of the body. 



404. Porizon meridionalis, sp. n. 



d 1 $ . A black species, with the abdomen, tegulae, scape, and 

 legs more or less broadly red. Head narrow and very strongly 

 transverse, black, with the glabrous clypeal apex, the elongately 

 bi dentate mandibles, and the palpi, red ; vertex very narrow, with 

 distinct and even punctures extending to the circularly sub- 

 prominent epistoma, thence becoming subcontinent laterally and 

 -a little finer apically to base of the subdiscrete and apically 

 unevenly rounded clypeus. Antennas quite filiform and hardly 

 longer than the head and thorax, black, with the scape ochraceous ; 

 flagellar joints subpilose and well discrete. Thorax immaculate 

 black and hardly longer than high ; mesonotum dull and closely 

 ipunctate, with somewhat strong but indefinite notauli, coalescing 

 discally ; metathorax very short, with a strong and discrete 

 petiolar area ; lateral carinae sti'ong ; spiracles small, circular, and 

 facing upwards. Scutellam black and dull. Abdomen glabrous 

 and nitidulous, nearly double the length of the head arid thorax, 

 red ; in with the whole first and extreme base of the second 

 segment black, in <3 with the whole first and the base of all the 

 following segments broadly black ; basal segment glabrous and 

 iiiitidulous, with elongate petiole and the spiracles distinctly 

 'beyond its centre at the strong subapical arcuation ; thyridii 

 distinct ; terebra shorter than the abdomen. Leys not elongate 

 or determinately rufescent ; hind coxae, and in <3 their femora, 

 blackish. Wings broad and somewhat short, hyaline, with the 

 broad stigma black and the tegulae rufescent : radial cell trapezi- 

 foriu, areolet wanting ; second recurrent nervure fenestrate above 

 and emitted slightly beyond the subrnarginal ; basal nervure not 

 continuous through the median ; neuration of lower wings very 

 weak, with the nervellus not interrupted, subopposite and quite 

 straight. 



Length 5-6 inillim. 



BURMA: Karen Hills, 3000-3700 ft., viii. 88 (L. Fea). 



Type in the Genoa Civic Museum. 



Described from a single pair. A small female, in very bad 

 -condition, in the Oxford Museum, appears to belong to the same 

 .species ; it was tak<.>n by Dr. Thwaitea in Ceylon in 1872. 



