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apex above smooth. The basal, upper half of the mesopleurse is smooth and 

 shining ; the raised lower part bears round, clearly separated punctures, the- 

 apex bears stout, longitudinal keels and is more or less reticulated. 



The tarsi are covered with a dense white pile ; the long spur of the hind 

 tibiae does not reach to the middle of the metatarsus by a perceptible space ; it 

 is as long as the 2nd joint. Sides of thorax at the base broadly rounded, as- 

 are also the sides of median segment. Temples short, sharply oblique. 

 The $ is similar ; it is, if anything, more densely pilose. 

 This species, in Schletterer's tables, as regards the ft, would come in near 

 E, verrucosa, Schl. ; the $ near E.princeps with which it cannot be confounded^ 

 In size and appearance it is not unlike E. appendig aster, but that has not the 

 tibiae and tarsi spinose and the scutellum is not strongly and closely punctured 

 as it is in the present species. 



Gasteruption baluchistanense, sp. nov. 

 Black, the 2nd to 5th abdominal segments red ; a line on the underside of 

 tin: four anterior tibiae and tarsi and a short ring near the base of the hind 

 tibiae, white ; the end of the sheaths of the ovipositor white ; wings clear 

 hyaline, the nervures and stigma black. $ and ft . 

 Length 13 ; terebra 15 mm. ; ft 11 mm. 

 Quetta. May-July. 



Head and thorax densely covered with white pubescence. The 3rd joint of 

 the antennae is distinctly shorter than the 4th ; it and the 2nd together are not 

 much longer than the 4th. The apex of the clypeus is shortly, roundly incised; 

 the centre is depressed. Malar space as long as the 2nd antennal joint. Eyes 

 parallel, not converging. Hinder ocelli separated from each other by double 

 the distance they are from the eyes ; the anterior half of the hinder are 

 placed behind the eyes. Temples long, roundly narrowed. Occiput roundly 

 incised, sharply margined. Collar short, as long as the width at the apex. 

 Middle lobe of mesonotum somewhat strongly, but not very closely, punctured ; 

 the lateral are much more sparsely and finely punctured. Scutellum sparsely 

 punctured along the sides. Metanotum irregularly reticulated, more widely 

 and distinctly on the apex than on the base ; on the apex are 2 longitudinal 

 keels. Pro- and mesopleurse finely rugose, densely covered with white pubes- 

 cence ; the apex of the latter is smooth above ; the lower part is striated ; the 

 striae are clearly separated. 



In one specimen there is a white line on the apical half of the metatarsus.. 

 The upper discoidal cellule is closed and is longer than the lower. Ccmes near 

 to G. sabulosum in Schletterer's arrangement. 



Gasteruption quettae7i.se, sp. nov. 

 Length 7-8 mm. Ovipositor longer than the body. 

 Quetta. May to August. 



This species is much smaller than the preceding ; has the abdomen much less 

 narrowly red ; may otherwise be known by the occiput not being incised, but 

 transverse. 



