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Length 12 mm. 



Habitat. — Abu. 



Antennae black ; the flagellum brownish beneath ; the last joint double the 

 length of the preceding, curved, hollowed on the underside. Face and clypeus 

 sparsely, but distinctly, punctured ; the apex of the clypeus broadly roundly 

 projecting, and armed with 3 short, broad teeth ; the sides are rounded and 

 fringed with stiff cream-coloured hair. Front and vertex closely and distinctly 

 punctured ; the lower half of the front depressed and smooth on either side of 

 the yellow line ; between the antenna? is a sharp keel. Thorax closely and 

 distinctly punctured ; the pleurae, sternum and metanotum covered with long 

 white hair ; the area on the metanotum is closely and distinctly punctured, 

 smooth at the base. The basal half of the petiole is black ; between the two 

 yellow marks on the apex is a triangular brown mark ; the 3rd to (ith 

 segments have a narrow yellow line on the apices ; there is a black mark, 

 narrowed gradually behind, on the apex of the 5th segment ; the last 2 are 

 entirely black. The pygidium is coarsely and closely punctured, and is of 

 equal width ; the hypopygium is not incised. 



There are two lines on the pronotum ; the tegulae are brownish ; the tibial 

 spines white. The hair is longer and denser than usual, Has a superficial 

 resemblance to C. vigilans, Sm. 



Miscophus nigricans, sp. nov. 



Black, densely pruinose, wings hyaline to the outer side of the transverse 

 radial nervure, fuscous beyond, the stigma large, fuscous, the nervures and 

 costa black, the 2nd cubital cellule triangular, the basal nervure rounded, the 

 apical longer, straight, oblique, longer than and bulging out from the 

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Length 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Matheran (March). 



Opaque, granular, covered with a white oile, which is longer and thicker on 

 the clypeus, apex of clypeus broadly roundea. Anterior ocellus separated from 

 posterior by a distinctly greater distance than theao are from each other ; the 

 latter are separated from each other, by a greater distance than they are from 

 the eyes. Metanotum long, very finely transversely striated, a longitudinal keel 

 down the middle ; the apical slope has a wide furrow down the middle and 

 is distinctly, but not closely, striated ; the metapleurae above are finely, 

 obliquely striated. 



Belated to M. difficils, Nurse, from Baluchistan ; that has the antennal scape, 

 tibiae and tarsi red. 



Astatus inter stitialis, sp. nov. 



Black, an irregular mark on the top of the vertex enclosing the anterior 

 ocellus, wider than long, almost touching the eyes above, below rounded and 

 with a squarish incision in the middle, the tegulae, except at the apex (where 

 they are fuscous) and the tubercles cream-white, a broad brownish band across 

 the base of 2nd abdominal segment ; the knees and base of fore femora white 



