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Post-petiole closely, sharply, longitudinally striated ; the 2nd and 3rd segments 

 closely punctured ; gastracceli shallow, smooth and transverse at the apex. 

 Aedigus large, black, closely punctured and densely covered with black pubes- 

 cence, longest on the apex below ; looked at from the sides the upper (and 

 larger) part is straight and oblique, the lower rounded ; the 7th ventral segment 

 is broad at the base, the narrowed apical (and large) part becomes gradually 

 narrowed to a bluntly rounded point. 



The following is a list of the described species from the Bombay 

 Presidency : — 



Bethylince. 

 Mesitus indicus, Kieffer, Bull. d. I. Soc. d. Hist. Nat. d. Metz, XII, 89., 

 Bombay (Biro). 



Epyris montanus, Kief., I.e., 89, Matheran. 800 m. (Biro). 

 „ indicus, ,, „ 90 „ „ „ 



„ conjuuetus, „ „ 90 Bombay, Malabar. 

 „ feai, „ „ Ann.d. Mus. di Stor. Nat. di Genova, XLI. 408. 



Epyris conjunctus, Kief. 

 This species has been taken at Deesa by Major Nurse. 



Propristocera percurrens, Kief., Bull. d. 1. Soc. d. Hist. Nat. d. Metz, III, 97, 

 Matheran. 800 m. 



Propristocera levicollis, Kief., I.e., 98. Matheran. 800 m. 



Trichopria indica, Kief., I.e., 103, Matheran. 800 m. 



Chalcidid^. 



Leucospisince, 

 Leucospis petiola, Fab. 

 This species is, there can be no doubt, identical with atra, Fab. and 

 guzeratensis, West. Cf. Schletterer, Berl. Ent. Zeit. XXXV, 224. It varies 

 greatly in size and colouration. It may be entirely black, or with only a short 

 line on the pronotum ; or it may be largely marked with yellow. In one 

 example are the following yellow markings : — the underside of the scape, a 

 broad transverse line, narrowed at the sides on the base of pronotum, 2 lines, 

 widened in the middle, on its apex, a line on the sides of mesonotum at 

 the tegute, the apical half of scutellum, the mark deeply, irregularly incised 

 in the middle at the base, an ovalish spot on the lower side of the propleurse, 

 a broad oblique line below the hind wings, a longish conical mark on the base 

 of the hind coxae, 2 conical spots, almost united at the base, near the base of 

 the 1st abdominal segment, a narrow line at the base of the 2nd segment, a 

 conspicuous line on the base of the 3rd, transverse and obliquely sloped at 

 the apex, the base dilated at the middle ; the apex of the 4 anterior femora, 

 the tibiae and base of tarsi behind, a large conical mark on the base of the 

 hind coxae above, a line on the base of the femora, broadly irregularly dilated 

 to the apex below and the upperside of the hind tibiae. The base of the 



