Species o/Sphegldae/rom the Khasia Hills. 227 



thickly covered with whitish pubescence, the pleurse with a 

 silvciy pile. Legs densely covered with silvery pile ; the 

 tibial and tarsal spines, claws, and base of spurs rufous. 

 Wings fuscous- violaceous, the uervures fuscous ; the second 

 and third cubital cellules equal in length iu front ; the 

 second recurrent nervure received in the middle. Abdomen 

 closely punctured and covered Avitli pale pubescence; the 

 apices of the second and third segments smooth, depressed ; 

 the penultimate segment and the pygidium thickly covered 

 with fuscous pubescence, as is also the ventral surface. 

 Tegulte pale testaceous. ? . 



Length 13 mm. 



Front strongly punctured above, distinctly furrowed down 

 the middle, the lower part smooth and shining, widely 

 furrowed, the farrow divided in two by a raised point ; the 

 lo\ver part of vertex sparsely punctured, the upper smooth; 

 the lateral depressions on front wide, the upper transverse 

 one the deepest. Clypeus closely punctured (except at 

 apex), its base thickly covered with fuscous pubescence. 

 Mesonotum and scutellum closely punctured. jMetanotum 

 closely transversely striated, the striae more widely separated 

 at the base, where there is a small somewhat triangular keel. 

 Metasternal process closel}^ punctured, its base depressed; 

 the two apical lobes rounded. 



Notogonia testaceicornis, sp. n. 



Black; the antennal scape rufous below, the flagellum 

 rufo-testaeeous, darker at the base ; wings fusco hyaline, the 

 nervures testaceous, the second cubital cellule in front half 

 the length of the third. Legs thickly covered with white 

 pubescence ; the tarsal spines and claws rufous. ^J . 



Length 14 mm. 



Comes near to iV. ter/ulcms ; may be known from it by the 

 second cubital cellule not beiug as long as the tiiird. 



Face, cheeks, and clypeus thickly covered with silvery, the 

 vertex with fuscous, pubescence. Vertex almost impunctate ; 

 the oeellar region faintly behind, strongly and closely in 

 front, punctured, broadly depressed, furrowed before the 

 ocelli. Front smooth and shining above, the furrow smooth 

 and shining, the upper part the larger. Clypeus (except at 

 apex) closely punctured, the apex rounded. Mandibles 

 rufous before the middle, the base punctured, thickly 

 covered with white hair. Palpi dark testaceous. Meso- 

 notum closely punctured, thickly covered with fuscous 

 pubescence; the scutellum more shining, less closely punc- 



