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have a slight falvous tinge ; the costa is white ; the greater part of 

 the stigma dark-fuscous ; the nervures blackish ; the second transverse 

 cubital nervure is largely bullated in the middle ; the third is pale 

 throughout. Abdomen deep-black ; the second to sixth segments 

 narrowly lined with white on the apex in the middle. 

 Pachyprotasis doksivittata, sp. nov. 

 Nigra, abdomine subtus flavo ; pedibus flavis, femoribns tibiisque 

 supra tarsisque nigris ; alls hyalinis, stigmate testaceo. $ . 

 Long : 10-11 m.m. 

 Habitat : Simla. 



Antennae black. Head black ; the antennal region, the clypeus, 

 labrum and the outer orbits from shortly above the middle of the eyes, 

 whitish-yellow. Front and vertex coarsely shagreened, running into 

 strialions on the sides ; the frontal area raised ; its middle depressed, 

 the depression keeled in the centre, except at the base ; there is a 

 black transverse line over the clypeus, which has the apex widely, 

 deeply and roundly incised. Mandibles pallid yellow, the teeth black 

 and piceous. Thorax black ; the edge of the pronotum, tegulse and 

 the base of the mesopleurse, except at the top, whitish-yellow. Meso- 

 notum minutely and closely punctured, the scutellum sparsely punc- 

 tured. Pleurae closely and minutely punctured. The back of the 

 abdomen is black except for an irregular fulvous mark in the middle ; 

 its apex and the ventral surface yellow. Legs pale-yellow ; all the femora, 

 the four front tibiae and tarsi are lined with black above ; the hinder 

 tibiae black above and at the apex all round ; the posterior tarsi black ; 

 the spurs are dark-testaceous. Wings hyaline, the anterior with a 

 slight fulvous tinge ; the costa and stigma pale-testaceous, the nervures 

 blackish. 



The $ has the breast and the lower half of the pleurae pale-yellow ; 

 the black on the upper part of the mesopleur^ is triangularly dilated 

 downwards, and in the centre above is a small oval yellow mark ; the 

 apex of the propleurae is yellow except narrowly above. 



The size of the yellow mark on the back of the abdomen varies. 



PCECILOSOMA NIGRICEPS, sp. noV. 



Luteum, capite, mesosterno, antennis tibiis tarsisque nigris ; alis 

 fusco-hyalinis, nervis stigmateque nigris. ? * 

 Long : 8 m.m. 

 Habitat : Simla, 



