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the lateral keels stout, uniting at the base, becoming gradually roundly widened 

 to the apex, which is closed by a narrow, not very distinct, transverse keel ; the 

 keels of the areola are continued round the outer edges of the apical slope ; from 

 the outer side of the base a less distinct keel runs to the central keel, uniting 

 with it near its apex, the metanotum is finely closely rugose ; the apical slope 

 is strongly, closely, transversely striated ; the striae are somewhat twisted. On 

 the metapleurB3 the spiracular region is bounded above and below by a stout 

 keel ; beyond the spiracles this area bears somewhat stoutish, more or less 

 broken striae ; the median segment densely covered with longish white pubes- 

 cence. Areolet with a longish pedicle ; the outer transverse cubital 

 nervure is longer and more roundly curved than the inner ; the areolet projects 

 below angularly ; the recurrent nervure is received distinctly beyond the 

 middle. 



The median segment at the base is broad, clearly separated from the apical 

 slope, which is almost perpendicular. In L. quettaense the slope is gradually 

 rounded from the base to the apex, the segment thus appearing shorter ; 

 quettaense has not a distinct areola, the apical slope is more depressed in the 

 middle and not so strongly striated ; it is a larger species and the 4 anterior coxae 

 and trochanters are red, not black as they are in the smaller species. The 

 latter, too, has not a petiolar area as has the larger species, in which also the 

 areolet is larger and the recurrent nervure is received in its middle. 

 Limnerium parvicarinalum, sp. nov. 



Black ; the antennal scape reddish yellow below ; the legs red ; all the coxae, 

 the 4 anterior trochanters at the base narrowly, the basal joint of the hinder, 

 the apex of the hinder tibiae and the hind tarsi except at the base narrowly, 

 black ; the 4 anterior tibiae and tarsi largely tinged with yellow ; the base of 

 the hind tibiae and of the hind tarsi pale yellow ; wings hyaline, the nervures 

 and stigma black ; the areolet 4-angled ; the nervures meeting in front ; there 

 is a distinct pedicle, half the length of the apical nervure, which is largely 

 bullated below ; the recurrent nervure is received in the middle ; the transverse 

 median nervure is received shortly beyond the transverse basal. $ . 



Length 7 mm. 



Quetta. June. 



Median segment closely rugosely punctured, thickly covered with longish 

 white pubescence ; the apical slope depressed in the middle, coarsely irregularly 

 striated ; there is a broadly curved keel in the centre of the base. Upper 

 half of propleura? closely rugosely punctured ; the lower half stoutly striated, 

 the striae clearly separated ; the meso- and metapleurae closely finely rugosely 

 punctured ; the latter more strongly than the former, which, on the upper 

 apical half, is strongly longitudinally striated ; its lower part bordered by a 

 crenulated furrow. The upper part of the metapleurae is closely, oblique- 

 ly, not very distinctly, striated. Face opaque, alutaceous, thickly covered 

 with white pubescence ; the clypeus obscurely punctured, the front and vertex 

 closely punctured. Mandibles black. Palpi pale yellow. 



