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sides of the propleurse above are strongly punctured, tlie 

 middle strongly obliquely striated. Mesopleune longitu- 

 dinally striated (except on the lower side at the base, which 

 is punctured, and a small smooth space in the middle 

 behind) ; the tubercles are punctured. Metapleurae closely 

 rugosely punctured, above more closely punctured. Meso- 

 s tern urn punctured, its furrow triangularly widened at the 

 apex. Petiole shining; before its apex is a punctured band, 

 surrounding a smooth space ; the second and third segments 

 are closely punctured ; gastrocceli shallow, coarsely acicu- 

 lated, the part behind them is raised on the outer side and 

 is very smooth and shining. 



The antennas and the apical abdominal segments are 

 broken off. 



Algathia rufopetiolata, sp. n. 



Black ; the scape of antennae rufous below, the base of 

 flagellum brownish, joints 11-1^ white below; a triangular 

 yellowish mark in the centre of the face above ; apex of 

 mandibles testaceous ; palpi pale yellow ; scutellums, the 

 sides of the apex of median segment, the apices of the second, 

 third, fifth, and the whole of the apical abdominal segments 

 pale yellow ; the petiole rufous, its apex yellow. Legs red ; 

 the four front coxae and trochanters pale yellow ; the femora 

 and tibiae fulvous, the tibiae paler, the fore tarsi fuscous 

 except at the base, the middle blackish ; the hinder coxae, 

 trochanters, and femora rufous ; a large mark on the coxae 

 below at the apex, the apex of femora, and tibiae (except a 

 small dull rufous band at the base) black ; the calcaria pale ; 

 tarsi black, with rufous spines. Wings hyaline, with a slight 

 fuscous tinge, the nervures and stigma black ; areolet nar- 

 rowed in front ; transverse median nervure received shortly 

 in front of the transverse basal. 6 . 



Length 8-9 mm. 



Hub. Khasia Hills. Coll. Rothney. 



Face sparsely punctured laterally, more thickly in the 

 centre; clypeus punctured, more sparsely below; labrum 

 fringed with long fulvous hair ; the face thickly covered 

 with fuscous pubescence. Front sparsely punctured, the 

 inner orbits above sharply margined. Mesonotum closely 

 punctured, the apex in the middle broadly longitudinally 

 striated, almost reticulated; middle lobe raised at the base. 

 Scutellum roundly raised, smooth, covered with long pale 

 hair. Postscutellum bifoveate at the base. Metanotum at 

 the base with large deep punctures ; the areola longer than 



