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Teally belong to that genus. The mandibles are 3-dentate ; the apical tooth is 

 larger and more clearly separated than the other two. The antennal scape is 

 shorter, it not extending to the hinder ocelli as in xanthorms ; the hinder ocelli 

 are separated from each other by a slighter greater distance than they are 

 from the eyes. The head is wider than the thorax. The pronotum is 

 transverse and margined at the base, not broadly rounded, and narrowed 

 laterally as in xanthopus, which has a larger prothorax. In the forewings, the 

 stigmal branch is nearly as long as the ulna. The apical 3 joints of the 

 antennae are thickened. 



SCELIONINI. 



Sparasion albo-pilosellus, sp. nov. 



Black, densely covered with long white pubescence ; the antennal scape and 

 the legs, except the coxa?, bright rufo-fulvous ; the antennal flagellum fuscous 

 below ; wings hyaline, the nervures fuscous, the stigma black. $. 



Length 4-5 mm. 



Quetta. May. 



Frontal ledge broad, smooth, shining, the edges broadly rounded ; the 

 front is raised above it, broadly rounded and with a raised border ; 

 immediately behind the border it is smooth ; between this border and the 

 ocelli it is irregularly, mostly obliquely striated. Except on the sides 

 in front, the vertex is irregularly transversely striated-reticulated. Pro- and 

 rnesonotum shining ; the hairs issue from punctures ; there are no furrows, 

 except on the apex, where they are deep. Scutellum smooth at the base, 

 the rest strongly punctured ; it is semicircular, large ; the basal furrow is 

 stoutly crenulated. The centre of the metanotum is depressed, bordered by a 

 keel which, at the apex, curves outwardly, then runs backwards obliquely 

 to the base of the segment, there being thus formed 2 arese ; shortly beyond 

 the middle of the inner keels is a stout transverse keel, with a more irregular 

 one on either side, besides a few broken keels ; the sides have a stout keel whioh 

 broadly projects and is united to the apex of the central keel ; the apical slope is 

 almost smooth. The upper part of the prothorax is margined on the outer side, 

 broadly rounded ; the basal slope is smooth. The base of the mesopleurae 

 is punctured, the rest smooth, except the apical half above which is raised 

 and strongly striated. The upper part of the metapleurse is strongly closely 

 striated ; the striae curved and interlacing ; the base above is punctured, the 

 lower part stoutly striated, the upper apical smooth. The basal 3 abdominal 

 segments are closely, strongly longitudinally striated ; the 4th is weakly and 

 irregularly striated and the 5th still more so ; the segmental divisions are 

 distinct and crenulated. 



The post-scutellum is flat and strongly striated ; the ventral segments are 

 weakly striated at the base. Palpi rufo-testaceous. 



He LOKINiE 

 Helorus striolatus, sp. nov. 

 Black ; the tegulae, tibiae and tarsi testaceous, the hinder pair darker coloured ; 



