from the Oriental Zoological Eegion. 91 



Psen puncticeps. sp. n. 



Black ; the knees, tibife, and tarsi wliitish testaceous, the 

 hinder darker tinted, with tlie tibial fuscous from shortly 

 beyond the middle ; the second and following segments of the 

 abdomen piceous, the narrowed part of petiole half the length 

 of the thorax. Wings clear hyaline, the stigma dark fuscous, 

 the nervures black. Metanotum without a basal area, the 

 sides keeled, the keels with a narrow striated band on the 

 inner side ; the furrow on the apical slope is wider and deeper 

 on the basal than on the apical part. Antenna? stout, 

 brownish below, the third joint about one fourth longer than 

 the next, which is as long as the second. First recurrent 

 nervure received close to the base of the cellule, the second at 

 double the distance. Front closely, distinctly, the vertex 

 less strongly punctured ; there is a narrow keel down the 

 centre of front, ending in a larg'e stout projection between 

 the antennae. Parapsidal furrows distinct on basal half of 

 mesonotum ; the furrow on the base of metanotum is deep, 

 crenulated, it is separated in the middle by a smooth space 

 bounded by curved keels. $ . 



Length 7 mm. 



JSimla. 



Palarus fortistriolatuSj sp. n. 



Black, shining, sparsely covered with white pubescence ; 

 the three lobes of clypeus, lower half of front, basal third of 

 mandibles, a broad line on the lower three fourths of the outer 

 eye-orbits, the apex and the sides of pronotum to near the 

 middle^ a line on its base, a large mark in front of the 

 tegulaj roundly, irregularly narrowed at the base, tegulse, 

 tubercles, a line on the base of mesopleurae, gradually narrowed 

 below to a sharp point, not reaching to the breast, an irre- 

 gular triangular spot on the outer lower side of its apex, 

 scutellums, their lateral keels, and the greater part of the 

 abdomen, bright lemon-yellow. Legs yellow, suffused with 

 rufo-fulvous, the four hinder coxaj and the greater part of 

 trochanters black ; the anterior metatarsus with seven long- 

 spines of equal length (except the basal, which is shorter), 

 the apical two close together. Wings hyaline, the apex very 

 slightly suffused with fuscous, the stigma and nervures 

 fulvous, the apical nervures darker coloured. $ . 



Length 13 mm. 



Quetta ; June. 



Tlic basal slope of the first abdominal segment, the base 



