from the Oriental Zoological Hegion. 2i 



of the face, two large marks, almost united above, in the 

 centre of the clypeus, the apex of tlie labrum, an irregular 

 line on the base of the pronotum, tegulte, tubercles, scutcl- 

 lums, scutellar keels, metanotal spines, and the apices of the 

 abdominal segments, yellow ; the four front legs yellow, tiio 

 femora tinged with fulvous, their tarsi fuscous; the hind 

 coxaj and basal two thirds of the femora fulvous, the tro- 

 chanters, apex of femora, and almost the apical half of the 

 tibia), black ; tiie basal part of the tibiae testaceous, the tarsi 

 white. Antcniise broadly ringed with white. Wings hyaline, 

 the stigma and nervures black, the areolet square ; the 

 transverse median nervure received distinctly behind tiie 

 transverse basal. ? . 



Length 12, terebra 2 mm. 



Sikkim. 



Front irregularly transversely striated, the strire weaker 

 below; a narrow keel down the middle. Face finely, 

 irregularly reticulated, the clypeus with large scattered 

 punctures. Mesonotum closely minutely punctured. Scutel- 

 lum with large lateral keels to near the apex. Base of 

 metanotum finely, closely, longitudinally striated, the striai 

 becoming stronger towards the apex ; the rest closely, 

 strongly reticulated ; spines broad, rounded at apex. Abdo- 

 men finely, closely punctured, the postscutellum smooth. 



Mesostenus resjwndens, Cam., J/, hrahminus, Cam., J/. 

 misippus, Cam., M. clarinervis, Cam., M. reticalatus, CJdin., 

 M. caligatus, (jam., M. saltator, Cam., M. versalUis, Cam., 

 and M. maculicepn, Cam., from the Khasias, belong to 

 Meaosleno ide us . 



Friona lineaiipes, sp. n. 



Black ; the face (except for a short line in the centre below 

 the antonnrc and the clypcal fovea), the clypeus (except for a 

 black tiinngular mark in the centre of apex), the orbits 

 broadly (excei)t the upper half of the outer), mandibles (except 

 the tooth), palpi, a broad line on the pronotum, scutellums, a 

 large, transverse, triangular mark behind the hind wings, a 

 broad longitudinal mark on the middle of metanotum, com- 

 mencing shortly behind the keel and uniting at the apex to a 

 broader transverse one across the apex, tubercles, a line at 

 the apex of the jileural furrow, a longish mark, widest below, 

 in the middle of the metapleuno at the a[)ex, not quite the 

 ajiical half of the postpctiole, a narrower band on the ape.x 

 of tho second segment, a still narrower one on the apex of 

 the third, slightly dilated at the middle, broadly laterally. 



