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scfjincnt is produced vcntnilly to a short point armed with 

 l')ii^ black liairs, six or more in niinil»cr. Lcf/s uniformly 

 hhukish ; the coxa; with long hrislle-like yellow hairs ; the 

 femora stout with sliort white pubescence; the fore femora 

 arnjed with usually three bristles behjw, very occasionally 

 four are present, and with three abcne; the middle femora 

 with al)out nine in three njws, two nunc near the apices, 

 jind two at the apex; the hind femora witii sixteen or so 

 bristles in three rows, two more near the apices, and four at 

 tlie apices; tibia? with strong bristles above and below, the 

 tarsi also with very many stronjj bristles; tibiie and tarsi with 

 the same pul)escence as the femora, all bristles black ; femora 

 and tibiie iiave also low^ white iiairs below, thickest on the 

 front ones ; the fore tibiae and the hind tibia? have deep 

 orange-red pubescence on their lower outer edges; the first 

 joints of tarsi on fore and hind legs have the same-coloured 

 pubescence on their under surface. 



Female identical. Tlie fore femora with often only two 

 bristles at the apex, the three above are very often absent, 

 and the hind femora often have only three at the apices. 

 The ovipositor is black with black hairs, not much longer 

 than tlie last segment. 



Machimus khasiensis, (^ ? ^ sp. n. 



Type (male) and type (female) from Lower Ranges, N, 

 Kliasi Hills, Assam, 1878 [A. Chennell), 96, 135. 



A species very similar to Muchwnis hirtipes, sp. n., but 

 distinguished by the wholly black legs. 



Length 17 mm. 



Mule. — Stripes of thorax are probably not so distinct, the 

 median stripe not so dark ; |)rtesutural bristles three, supra- 

 alar three, postalar two. Abdomen greyish yellow, the dark 

 spot on each segment not very distinct ; pubescence as in 

 M. hirti/>es ; genitalia wholly black, the eighth ventral 

 segment the same, but the hairs on the long projection are 

 only black above, yellow and long below. Zev/A' blackish ; 

 the fore femora with only three bristles above and long 

 yellow hairs below, the mid-femora with three and two at 

 apex, the hind femora with three above aiul three below 

 in the fenude, but apparently fewer in the male, a few 

 pale bristles are present; pubescencv- on femora short and 

 yellowish, the same on the tibiie, which have also thick 

 appressed fringes of rufous liaii's on their under surfaces. 

 The S|)eeies is distinguished from Macliiii.us ni(/rinus, sp. n., 

 by the paler colouring of the abdomen and its thicker 



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