from the Oriental ZooJogical Region. 25 



ami lias a short, stout keel in the centre at tlie ha.se. Legs 

 thickly covered with silvery j)ube.scence ; the apical two joints 

 of the anterior tarsi rutbiis ; the apex of the posterior more or 

 less rufous, as are also the claws; the tibial and tarsal spines 

 are clear white ; the calcaria are pale. Win^i^s clear hyaline ; 

 the nervures testaceous; the tirst cubital ceUule at the top is 

 shortly, but distinctly, longer than the second ; the second 

 recurrent nervure is received very shortly beyond the middle. 

 Abdomen shining; the apices of the basal four segments 

 broadly banded with silvery pubescence ; the pygidium is 

 entirely covered with silvery pubescence; the filth and sixth 

 segments and, to a less extent, the base of the middle have 

 a brownish sericeous pile. 



}^vtogonia Chapmani, sp. n. 



Nigra, facie ractanotoque fiilvo pilosis ; alis flavo-hyalinis, apice 



fnmato. nervis stigmateque flavo-testaceis. 9 • 

 Long. 14 mm. 



Ilah. Himalayas. 



Scape of antennje thickly covered with fulvous pubescence. 

 The front and vertex alutaceous; the ocellus is circular; 

 behind the ocellar region is a triangular depression ; the lower 

 part of the fiont and the face thickly covered with fulvous, 

 intermixed with longish silvery pubescence. ^landibles 

 piceous beyond the incision ; the base thickly covered with 

 silvery pubescence. Paljii black, thickly covered with white 

 pubescence. Thorax alutaceous ; the sides of the apical 

 slope with some stout, irregular, transverse striations; the 

 niesonotum is thickly covered with fulvous pubescence; the 

 hair on the rest of the thorax silvery ; the furrow on the apical 

 slope is deep and reaches to the middle. The sternal process 

 is large, depressed at the base, narrowly keeled in the middle; 

 the apical incision is sniall. The breast is thickly covered 

 with fulvous pubescence. Wings distinctly yellow ish iiyaline, 

 the apex slightly infuscated ; the nervures yellowish fulvous; 

 the first transverse cubital nervure is roundly curved; the 

 fiist cubital cellule at the top is about two thirds of the length 

 of the second ; the second recurrent nervure is broadly rounded 

 and is received shortly behind the middle of the cellule. The 

 abdominal segments are banded with pale fulvous pubescence; 

 the pubescence on the pygidium is stiff and dark golden or 

 fulvous. 



This species was given to me many years ago by my late 

 friend, M\. Thomas Chapman, of Glasgow. It comes near 

 to N. jnculairix. 



