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metapleurae obliquely closely striated. Wings yellowisb-hyaline ; fus- 

 cous from the base of the radial cellule. Le^s red ; the anterior coxae 

 and trochanters, the greater part of the middle coxse and the base of 

 the posterior eoxEe, black ; the spurs and spines on the front legs are 

 dark-rufous ; on the four posterior legs they are black. The basal two 

 seo-monts of the abdomen and the last segment are red ; the segments 

 are bordered with silvery pubescence, the pile on the pygidium is 

 silvery. 



The $ is similarly coloured, except that the scape is black. A 

 distinct and handsome species. 



Gastrosericus rufitarsts, sp. nov, 

 Niger, dense albo piloso, basi abdominis, geniculis tarsisque rufis ; 

 alis hyalinis, coste stigmateque testaceis, nervis fuscis. $ . 

 Long, : 9 m.m. 

 Habitat : Deesa. 



Antennfs black, thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; the apex 

 of the scape pale-yellow. Head black ; the front thickly covered with 

 lougish grey hair ; the cheeks and clypeus with longish, depressed 

 bright-silvery pubescence; the vertex is sparsely haired; the ocellar 

 region is closely and distinctly punctured ; behind with an oblique slope, 

 and smooth and shining; the vertex minutely, but not very closely, 

 punctured ; it is obliquely depressed towards the centre, where there is 

 a narrow longitudinal furrow. Mandibles pallid yellow at the base, 

 where they are covered with depressed silvery pubescence ; the apex 

 blaok, rufous behind. Thorax thickly covered with white pubescence, 

 it is longest and thickest on the apical slope of the median segment; 

 the mesonotum and scutellura closely and distinctly punctured ; the 

 median segment rugose. Wings clear hyaline, with a steelly irides- 

 cence ; the costa and stigma are rufo-testacpoas, the nervures darker ; 

 the radial cellule is short, its apical abscissa is straight ynd has a sliglitly 

 oblique slope ; the lower abscissa projects beyond it as a short stump ; 

 the cubital cellule is much narrowed on the top; the recurrent ner- 

 vure-* are united and are received near the basal fourthof the collide. 

 Legs thickly covered with silvery pubesc nee ; all the tars; and the base 

 and apex of the tibiee are rufous ; the tibial and tarsal spines are pale. 

 Abdomen blac!- ; the basal segment and the second, except at the apex, 

 rufous ; the apex of the segments marked with bright silvery pubes- 

 cence ; the pygidium is covered with depressed silvery pubescence. 



