Q6 Mr. P. Cameron on new 



apex ; the last segment is shining, black, and hears a hroad 

 row of large punctures outside the middle. 



The petiole is longer than the second segment, is narrow 

 at the base, becoming gradually, hut not much, wider towards 

 the apex ; the second segment has a narrow smooth depres- 

 sion at the base; the ventral segments are yellow on the 

 sides. The eyes are distinctly emarginate on the inner side 

 above. 



A distinct species. In Bingham^s arrangement (p. 294) 

 it would come in near depredator and basalts. 



Pseudayenia erythropoda, sp. n. 



Nigra, dense aureo-pilosa ; peclibus rufis, coxis trochanteribusque 



nigris ; alls fusco-violaceis. 5 • 

 Long. 18-19 mm. 



Hab. Sikkim, Khasia Hills, and Madras. 



Antennae entirely black, covered with a depressed pile. 

 Head densely covered with golden pubescence ; the hinder 

 ocelli are separated from the eyes by a greater distance than 

 they are from each other. Clypeus broadly rounded at the 

 apex, bare, the rest covered with golden pubescence. Man- 

 dibles black or dark rufous, and covered thickly with 

 depressed dark fulvous pubescence; the pubescence of variable 

 tint. Thorax densely covered with depressed golden pu- 

 bescence ; the median segment strongly transversely striated, 

 broadly furrowed doAvn the centre, the furrow becoming 

 wider towards the apex; the metapleurse above obliquely 

 striated. Legs rufous ; the coxae and trochanters black ; 

 the apices of the tarsal joints more or less black ; the hinder 

 spurs are black, at the base thickly covered with fulvous 

 pubescence. Wings dark violaceous, the hinder pair lighter 

 in colour; the transverse median nervure is received at some 

 distance in front of the transverse basal ; the first recurrent 

 nervure is received at the base of the apical third, the second 

 near the apex of the basal third of the cellule. Abdomen 

 pruinose ; the pygidial area is clearly defined, smooth, and 

 shining, and is fringed laterally with long pale fulvous 

 hair. 



Comes nearest to P. dana'e, which differs from it, inter alia, 

 in having the scape of the antenuce and the trochanters 

 ferruginous. The tarsi are rather thickly covered with short 

 stiff spines ; the amount of black on the hinder pair varies. 

 Except that the basal cellule is paler, the fore wings are 

 uniformly coloured. The species shows an approach to 

 Macrumerus. 



