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third joint is about one-half longer than the fourth. Head smooth and 

 shining ; frontal area is slightly raised, flat ; the apex obliquely 

 narrowed at the sides ; there, is an irregular fovea on the top of the 

 antennal tubercle and a larger deeper one on either side of it. Clypeus 

 and labium thickly covered with blackish pubescence ; both are trans- 

 verse at the apex. Mandibles broadly piceous before the apex ; the 

 front and vertex are thickly covered with short pale pubescence. 

 Thorax smooth and shining ; the meson otum thickly covered with 

 black pubescence. Legs white ; the apex of the hinder tibise and the 

 tarsi black. Wings hyaline ; the stigma and nervures black ; the first 

 transverse cubital nervure is indicated by a hyaline line ; the second 

 recurrent nervure is received near the apex of the basal fourth of the 

 cellule ; the basal nervure is received near the base of the apical fourth 

 of the cellule. 



MONOPHADNUS SIML^NSIS, s;?. UOV. 



Niger, prothorace, mesonoto cum scutello maculaque magna subalis 

 ferrugineis ; alis violaceo-fusois, nervis stigmateque nigris. 9. 



Long : 10 m.m. 



Habitat : Simla. 



Antennse short, stout, almost bare. Head smooth and shining ; 

 the ocelli bordered by furrows ; behind them are two deep curved 

 furrows, which extend backwards to shortly behind the middle of the 

 vertex ; the frontal fovea is large, deep, dilated broadly behind ; the 

 dilated part with a narrow furrow in the middle. Clypeus sparsely 

 punctured, convex and bordered above by a curved furrow. The pro- 

 thorax, mesonotum, scutellum, tegulse and a large triangular mark on 

 the base of the mesopleurge extending above to the apex, rufous. 

 Wings smoky-fuscous, with a violaceous tinge ; the nervures and stigma 

 black ; the third cubital cellule is more than double the length of the 

 second ; the recurrent nervure is received close to its base. Abdomen 

 smooth and shining, the edges of the segments narrowly at the apex, 

 and the fifth and following broadly in the middle, whitish-yellow ; 

 the ventral segments have their apices . narrowly whitish-yellow. 

 Legs stout, covered with a stout, stiif pile ; the claws rufous. 

 Athalia nigro-maculata, sp. nov. 



Lutea, antennis, capite metanotoque nigris ; abdominis dorso nigro 

 maculate ; pedibus flavis ; femoribus posterioribus tibiis tarsisque nigro 

 maculatis ; alis fusoo hyalinis, basi fiimatis ; nervis stigmateque nigris. 

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