92 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XVII. 



Length 12 mm. 



Quetta. August. 



The markings on the head, antennal scape, thorax atcl legs are vermilion ; 



probably this is owing to discolouration by cyanide of potassium. There 



are 10 teeth on the hind femora ; the basal 5 are thick, blunt, closely pressed 



together ; the following 4 are longer, sharper, more curved and clearly separated ; 



the last is widely separated and is shorter than any of the others. The post- 



scutellum projects distinctly over the median segment ; its apex is unequally 



bidentate. The entire body is covered with a short white pubescence and is 



closely, somewhat strongly punctured except the metanotum which is closely 



reticulated. The joints of the flagellum are distinctly longer than thick, 



except the 4th to 6th, which are about as wide as thick. There is a smooth 



broad transverse keel near the apex of the pronotum. The eyes do not 



converge below ; the malar space is nearly as long as the antennal scape. In 



the centre of the face are 2 furrows which converge roundly towards each 



other in the centre. The centre of the clypeus is roundly incised, the sides 



rounded. 



Leucaspis nursei, sp. nov. 



Length 9-10 mm. $. 



Quetta. May to August. 



<J This species is almost identical in colouration and markings with the 

 preceding, but it is smaller ; and may readily be known by there being only 

 8 teeth on the hind femora, namely, 3 stout, longish basal closely pressed, 

 a stouter one near to them, but clearly separated, 2 longer and sharper ones, 

 widely separated from it and from each other, and still more widely separated 

 is a short stump ; the post-scutellurn is not so distinctly bidentate ; the 

 apex of the clypeus has the lateral lobes more distinct, and broader. As 

 regards colouration the mark below the tegulse is 3 times larger and pyriform, 

 the black line on the pronotum is half the length and thickness, the post- 

 scutellnm is marked with yellow, and the 2 marks on the metanotum are much 

 larger and more particularly broader, being not much longer than wide ; the 

 lines on the sides of the face are broader and are united at the top by a mark 

 which projects upwards between the antennae ; the striation on the vertex is 

 stronger and closer. 



If there were only the colouration differences I should feel inclined to regard 

 the 2 as forms of one species ; but the structural differences are too great 

 to warrant one in looking upon them as varieties of one species. 



The $ is larger (14 mm.); the dark markings on the thorax are smaller and 



are brown rather than black ; only the clypeus is black ; the antennae have to 



black ; the black transverse marks or lines on the abdomen arc narrower ; the 



3rd is broader than the others, especially on the sides ; the ovipositor reaches to 



the middle of the basal segment ; the post-scutellum is more distinctly bilobate ; 



the lobes rounded. 



Dirrhinus crythroceras. 



Black ; the antennas, the 4 anterior femora, tibia? and all the tarsi rufcus, the 



