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Antennse longer than the abdomen, black, thickly covered with 

 a microscopic down. Head black, the front and vertex shining ; 

 smooth ; the front alutaceons, minutely punctured ; the frontal area 

 depressed, its sides broadly raised ; the antennal keel distinct ; its sides 

 oblique. Clypeus and labrum opaque, alutaceous, thickly covered with 

 black pubescence ; the apex of the clypeus is almost transverse ; the 

 mandibles piceous before the apex. Thorax and abdomen luteous, ex- 

 cept the depressions at the sides of the scutellum, the post-scutellum 

 and the space between the cenchri ; the sheaths of the ovipositor 

 black. Legs luteous ; the four hinder tibise and tarsi entirely, the base 

 of the fore femora, the apex of the tibiae and the tarsi, black. All the 

 transverse cubital nervures are distinct ; the second cubital cellule is 

 slightly, but distinctly, shorter than the third ; the first recurrent 

 nervure is received near the apex of the basal third, the second in the 

 middle of the cellule. The claws are bifid ; the outer division longer 

 than the inner. 



Taxonus nigkitarsis, sp. nov. 



Niger, abdominis medio supra testaceo ; pedibus pallide testaceis, 

 tarsis nigris ; alis hyalinis, nervis stigmateque uigris. $. 



Long : 5 m.m. 



Habitat : Simla. 



Head shining, black ; the clypeus white ; there are two short deep 

 furrows behind the ocelli ; the ocellar region is raised ; the frontal area 

 is not defined. Clypeus widely, but not deeply, incised ; the labrum is 

 white ; the palpi of a darker white. Thorax smooth and shining, 

 black except for a narrow white line on the pronotum. Legs white, 

 with a slight testaceous tinge ; the tarsi and the extreme base and apex of 

 the hinder tibise, black. Wings hyaline, highly iridescent ; the ner- 

 vures and stigma black ; the second and third cubital cellules are about 

 equal in length ; the first recurrent nervure is received at the base, 

 quite close to the transverse cubital nervure ; the second shortly beyond 

 the middle. Abdomen black ; the middle segments down the centre 

 and the third and fourth at the apex and the basal half on the underside, 

 testaceous. 



Taxonus melanopodus, sp. nov. 



Niger, tibiis farsisque anterioribus albis ; alis hyalinisj nervis 

 stigmateque nigris. 9 et^. 



Long : 5 m.m. - ' 



