478 Mr. E. E. Turner on some 



hyaline, nervures colourless, the stigma and costa pale 

 iutaceous. 



Length 7, exp. al. 10 mm. 



Hah. Deesa, N.AV. India {Nurse). October. 



Type in coll. Nurse. 



The antennae are proportionally shorter and much mor® 

 strongly clavate than in other species of Myzine. 



Myzine subpetiolata, Cam. 



Plesia subpetiolatus, Cam. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. SoG. xviii. p. 135 

 (1907), d. 



$ . Mandibles falcate, acute at the apex. Head smooth 

 and shining, sparsely punctured on the front; the clypeu.s- 

 slightly produced and truncate at the apex; the antenna as 

 long as the thorax without the median segment, the scape 

 smooth and shining on the inner side, punctured and with 

 long sefae on the outer side, the first joint of the flagellum 

 coneeakd, the second distinctly shorter than the third; the 

 iead subrectangular, slightly rounded at the posterior angles, 

 a little broader than long and slightly convex; the ocelli in 

 a triangle on the vertex, the posterior pair more than half as 

 far again from each other as from the anterior, and nearly 

 twice as far from the eyes as from each other. Thorax and 

 median segment shining, with a few scattered setigerous 

 punctures, the pleura very sparsely punctured ; a few fine 

 oblique stria on the sides of the median segment near the 

 base ; the pronotum one-third broader posteriorly than 

 anteriorly, as long as the breadth on the anterior margin smi 

 narrow^er than the head; mesonotum short, the scuteilum a 

 little shorter than the median segment. Abdomen as long 

 as the head, thorax, and median segment combined, smooth 

 and shining, with a few scattered hairs on the sides and on 

 the apical margins of the ventral segments, the apical 

 segment triangular. The second cubital cell is almost as 

 long on the cubital nervure as the first, and extends along 

 the transverse cubital nervure for rather less than half its 

 length. 



Ferruginous red; the apex of the mandibles, eyes, ocelli, 

 and the dorsal abdominal segments black ; the ventral 

 segments of the abdomen, apex of the pygidiura, meso- 

 sternum, and femora fusco-ferruginous ; a large spot on each 

 side of the second and third abdominal segments, and a 

 smaller one on the fourth creamy white. Wings hyaline, 

 nervures fusco- ferruginous. 



Length 9; exp. 12 mm. 



