184 Mr. T, D. A. Cockerell — Descriptions and 



Among the Indian species tlds may be compared v.itli 

 T. phryne (Nurse), Avhich has the antennae as lou;^ as body, 

 the abdominal bands on second and third segments only 

 " somewliat narrowed in the middle," and the hair on the 

 logs differently coloured. It may also be compared with 

 T. tesiaceitarsis, Cam., hnt that has rufo-testaceous tarsi, and 

 I infer that the antennae are black. 



Tetraloniella aliena, sp. n. 



S . — Length 8 mm. or a little more ; antennae about 

 7f mm. 



Black, with pale pubescence, very pale ochreous on thorax 

 above, M'hite on face, pleura, cheeks, and legs ; abdomen 

 very dark reddish, with dense greyish-white tomentum 

 covering the filth segment, leaving a narrow apical margin 

 on fourth, leaving a broader margin (about apical third in 

 middle) on third, and on second reduced to base and anterior 

 lateral corners (reaching hind margin at sides) ; head broad; 

 eyes pale greenish ochreous ; elypeus (which is densely and 

 rather strongly punctured), large spot at base of mandibles, 

 and labrum, all lemon-yellow; mandibles (except for the 

 spot) dark, faintly reddish toward apex; maxillary blade 

 obtuse, not much elongated ; maxillary palpi small and 

 short, five-jointed, the third joint longest, nearly as long as 

 fourth and fifth together, tliese subequal ; scape short, black ; 

 fla^ellum entirely bright ferruginous; mesothorax densely 

 ])unctured ; tegula? pale testaceous, very hairy. AVings 

 hyaline, faintly dusky, nervurcs and stigma testaceous ; first 

 r. n. joining second s.m. at about the beginning of its last 

 third; third s.m. narrowed about half above ; b. n. falling a 

 little short of t.-m. ; small joints of tarsi ferruginous ; hair 

 oil in]ier side of tarsi pale orange-fulvous ; abdomen minutely 

 granular ; apical plate hairy, not notched subapically ; hair 

 of ajjical segments very pale fawn-colour. 



llab. Nasik, N.W.' India, 2 J {E. Comber). British 

 Museum. 



Distinguished from Tetralonia erythrocera, Cam., by tiie 

 longer antennre and testaceous nervurcs ; from T. cassandra 

 (Nurse) by the basal instead of apical abdominal bands and 

 the entirely red flagellum ; from T. punctata, Cam., by the 

 dark niandil)lcs, teguhe not yellow, and hair of abdomen not 

 fulvous. This is evidently congeneric with 7\ brcvipennis 

 and T. punctata, which Cameron describes as having four- 

 joiuted maxillary i>alpi. Cameron's figure of the palpi of 



