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Habitat : Simla. 



Antennae black, stout, thickly covered with a short pile. Head 

 smooth and shining ; there is a furrow in front of the ocellus ; there is 

 a central fovea and one on either side of it over the antennae ; the apex 

 of the clypeus is transverse ; the labrum is roundly convex, is rounded 

 at the apex and is, as is also the clypeus, thickly covered with short, black 

 pubescence. Apex of mandibles rufous. Thorax black, smooth and 

 shining. Legs black ; the apex of the four anterior femora, their tibiae 

 and tarsi white ; they are thickly covered with pale pubescence : the 

 calcaria pale. The first recurrent nervure is received close to the apex 

 of the basal third of the cellule ; the second shortly behind the middle. 

 Taxonus labiatus, sp. nov. 



Niger, prothorace mesonotoque cum scutello rufis ; pedibus nigris, 

 coxis, trochanteribns femoribusque postiois pallide flavis ; alls fere 

 hjalinis, nervis stigmateque nigris. $ . 



Long : 8-9 m.m. 



Habitat : Simla. 



Head smooth and shining, thickly covered with short pubescence ; 

 the clypeus deeply and roundly incised ; closely, but not very strongly, 

 punctured ; the labrum is white. Thorax black, shining ; the prothorax, 

 the mesonotum, the scutellum and the upper half of the mesopleurge 

 rufous. The back of the abdomen has bluish-violet tinge. Legs 

 black ; the apices of the four front cosse, the hinder coxae entirely, 

 the hinder trochanters and the hinder femora, pallid-yellow. Wings 

 hyaline ; the anterior with a fuscous tinge on the apical half ; the 

 stigma and uervures are black. 



Taxonus foveifrons, sp. nov. 



Nigro-Goeruleo, trochanteribus albis ; alls fusco-hyalinis, nervis 

 8tigmateque nigris. $ . 



Long : 7 m.m. 



Habitat : Simla. 



Antennae stout, of the length of the abdomen ; thickly covered with 

 a black microscopic pile. Head smooth and shining, thickly covered with 

 short pubescence • frontal area obsolete ; above the antennae is a deep 

 fovea of oval shape. Clypeus deeply and roundly incised in the middle ; 

 the labrum is pale. Thorax smooth and shining ; the parapsidal furrows 

 are deep ; the middle lobe is distant from the scutellum ; its apex is 

 sharply pointed ; the scutellum at the base is surrounded by a wide 



