520 Major C. G. Xurse on neio 



line, ending in a deep furrow, from base of antennas to ante- 

 rior ocellus ; pronotum with the apical margin depressed ; 

 mesonotum with a median impressed line ; median segment 

 rounded at apex, gradually sloped, finely rugose, with a 

 granular appearance, in some specimens running into trans- 

 verse stria ; petiole of abdomen one-jointed, the petiole about 

 one third the length of the whole abdomen. Black ; the 

 abdomeuj except the petiole, red, becoming darker, almost 

 black, at apex ; head and thorax with rather long white 

 pubescence, that on the front intermixed with a few black 

 hairs, the vertex almost bare ; wings hyaline, very faintly 

 fuscescent at apex, nervures and tegulse rufo-testaceous. I 

 cannot discover a tooth in the tarsal claws. 



S . Similar, more slenderly built, the head much smaller ; 

 clypeus only about half the width of that of the female. 



Long. 16 millim. 



Hah. Murree to Kashmir road, about 4000 feet ; three or 

 four specimens. 



This species would come into Bingham's key as a new 

 section, " Tarsal claws non-dentate." 



Animophila basalis (Smith). 



The male of this species has not hitherto been described. 

 It resembles the female, but all the legs are black. The 

 amount of red on the abdomen varies considerably, and I 

 liave some specimens in which the abdomen is entirely 

 black, except the ventral portion of the second segment. 

 Tills species is very closely allied to A. atripes^ both having 

 the legs red in the female and black in the male. In fact 

 the only reliable character by which they can be separated 

 is that A. basalis has the basal portion of the median seg- 

 ment transversely striate, and not reticulate. So far as I 

 have observed, there is lilitle or no difference in size. 



Uab. Deesa, Mt. Abu; common. 



Psen hashnirensisj sp. n. 



$ . Smooth and shining, witli a few minute punctures on 

 the vertex and mesonotum ; clypeus short, transverse ante- 

 riorly ; antennae clavate ; second joint of tlagellura about 

 half as long again as the third, the portion of the front 

 between the bases of antennaj raised into a remarkable 

 tubercle; eyes slightly convergent below; median segment 

 with a triangular depression at base, with outwardly diver- 

 gent strice, and produced into a deep median longitudinal 



