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The basal lateral areae of metanotum strongly punctured and 

 with a carved furrow on the inner side; areola twice longer 

 than wide, bulging out obliquely in the middle and with the 

 apex wider than the base and transverse ; its basal half is 

 furrowed deeply down the middle, the sides irregularly trans- 

 versely striated; the base of the posterior median area with 

 a stout longitudinal keel in the middle, the rest transversely 

 irregularly striated, the striae weaker and closer towards the 

 apex ; the outer areae strongly punctured, the punctures large 

 and deep, the spiracular area irregularly reticulated at the 

 base, the rest strongly transversely striated. Propleurae above 

 with large deep punctures, the depressed middle stoutly, 

 obliquely, irregularly striated. Mesopleurae strongly punc- 

 tured, rugosely near the tubercles ; the uietapleurae between 

 the keels strongly and uniformly punctured. The first ab- 

 dominal segment smooth, the sides of postpetiole depressed 

 and punctured ; the middle with a large deep depression ; the 

 second and third segments closely punctured, the base of the 

 second closely longitudinally striated ; the gastrocceli shallow, 

 closely striated (except at the apex) ; the apical segments 

 thickly covered with white hair. 



Algathia rufipes, sp. n. 



Black ; the tenth to fifteenth joints of antennae white 

 below ; face, clypeus, inner orbits and the outer from near 

 the top, mandibles at the base, palpi, edge of pronotum 

 (except at the base) narrowly, an irregular squarish mark 

 behind the middle of the mesonotum, scutellums, sides of 

 metanotum broadly, the lower edge of propleurae, tubercles, 

 an irregular mark (narrowed in the middle) on the lower 

 part of mesopleurae, a short line below the hind wings, a 

 small mark over the hind coxae, the centre and apex of 

 scutellum, the apices of the first, second, third, and fourth 

 abdominal segments, of the sixth, and the whole of the apical 

 segment, yellow. Legs rufous, the four front coxae and 

 trochanters yeliow ; the hind coxae and base of trochanters 

 black ; the hind tarsi white, the basal and apical joints 

 black. Wings hyaline, the stigma testaceous, the nervures 

 blackish; areolet narrowed above, the nervures almost 

 touching there ; transverse median postl'urcal. $ . 



Length 10, terebra 1 mm. 



Hub. Khasia Hills. Coll. Rothney. 



Face closely punctured and covered with silvery pubes- 

 cence ; there is an irregular diamond-shaped mark in its 

 centre and a less distinct black line above the clypeal foveoe. 



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