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Allied, by the form of the head, to Exochus ; is easily known from it 

 by the depressed clypeus, by the curved apex of the mandibles and by 

 the two longitudinal keels on the median segment. 



NOTHAIMA BICAEINATA, sp. nov, (PI. fig. 10.) 



Nigra, pedibus anterioribus rufo-testaceis, coxis nigris ; alls hyalinis, 

 nervis stigmateque nigris. <J. 



Long : 10 m.m. 



Habitat : Simla. 



Antennae black, stout, the flagellum dark-brownish beneath. Tlie 

 face is closely and strongly punctured ; the obliquely depressed clypeu3 

 is smooth and shining. Mandibles black ; the middle with an oblique 

 testaceous mark ; the palpi yellowish-testaceous. Thorax entirely 

 black ; the mesonotum is thickly covered with short fuscous pubes- 

 cence ; the parapsidal furrows are deep, the middle lobe being thus 

 clearly separated. The basal half of the scutellum bears scattered, 

 punctures. Median segment irregularly rugosely punctured ; there ia 

 one central area which reaches to the apex of the segment, and is 

 bounded by two straight keels ; its basal half is smooth ; the apical 

 bears some stout, irregular transverse keels ; there is a narrow keel on 

 either side of the spiracles. Mesopleurse punctured, but not very closely 

 or strongly ; the apex of the meta-closely, finely, obliquely striated. 

 The four hinder legs are dark, rufo-testaceous, the cosse black ; the 

 hinder legs are black, the femora and tibiae with a slight fuscous or 

 brownish tinge ; the femora are slightly, broadly hollowed on the inner 

 side. Wings clear hyaline ; the nervures and stigma black ; the 

 areolet is completely open. Abdomen black ; the basal three ventral 

 segments obscure testaceous ; the petiole is irregularly, coarsely, closely 

 shagreened and striated, except at the apex, where it is smooth and 

 shining ; the base in the middle is smooth, depressed and furrowed in 

 the centre from near the base. 



Exochus appendiculatus, sp. nov. 



Niger, pedibus flavis, femoribus late fulvis, coxis posfcicis late nigris ; 

 alls hyalinis, nervis stigmateque nigris. $ . 



Long : fere 7 m.m. 



BLabitat : Deesa. 



The flagellum is brownish, the scape yellowish beneath. Face 

 regularly and closely punctured and thickly covered with longish white 

 hair ; the front is smooth, the vertex is sparsely punctared. Mandibles 



