444 IT.-COL. 0. T. BINGHAM ON THE [Mar. 17, 



Genus Palabus, Latreille. 



253. Palabus oeibntalis, Kohl. 



Palarus orientalis. Kohl, Yei-h. A. k.-k. zool.-hot. Ges. "Wien, 

 1884, 422, 2 6 ; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. 

 ser. 4, ii.(1889), 148, 1. 



Family NyssonidjE, Wesmael. 

 Genus Stizus, Latreille. 



254. Stizus pkismaticus (Smith). 



Larra prismatica, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. ii. (1858), 103, 1 5 d ; 

 id. ibid. xi. (1867), 367, 10. 



Stizus prismaticus, Sich. Hym. d. Novara-Eeise, 142 ; Handl. 

 Sitzungsb. d. k. Akad. d. Wissenseh. Wien, 1892, 55, 21. 



Pundaloya {Green coll.). 



Genus Goettes, Latreille. 



255. GoEYXES GEEENii, sp. nov. (Plate XV. flg. 8.) 

 $ . L. 14 millim. Exp. 32 millim. 



Brownish red variegated with yellow ; wings flavo-hyaline, the 

 fore wing with a large dark brown macula on the costal margin at 

 the apex. 



Head not so broad as the thorax, smooth, or with only a few 

 scattered punctures, covered with a thin sericeous golden pile only 

 seen in certain lights ; mandibles yellow, ferruginous at apex ; 

 clypeus light brownish red, transversely oval and convex ; antennse 

 brown above, fulvous red below ; the scape in front and an abbre- 

 viated line on the inner margin of the eyes yellow ; front slightly 

 concave ; the ocelli in a broad triangle on the vertex, a shallow 

 furrow from the anterior ocellus to a little above the antenna). 

 Thorax brown ; protborax smooth and shining, its posterior margin 

 broadly yellow ; mesothorax above very finely longitudinally 

 striated, carrying two short parallel carinoB on the disc anteriorly ; 

 scutellum, postscutellum, and the sides of the thorax somewhat 

 coarsely striated, a broad fascia on the scutellum, a narrower one 

 on the postscutellum, and a spot under the base of the wings 

 yellow ; metathorax posteriorly rounded, roughly reticulated, the 

 triangular enclosed space at its base longitudinally striate. "Wings 

 yellowish hyaline and iridescent ; the front wing with a large dark 

 brown spot occupying the whole of the radial cell, and extending 

 below into the 2nd and 3rd cubital cells ; the 2nd cubital cell, 

 receiving both recurrent nervures, is at base about two-thirds the 

 length of the 3rd cubital cell ; the 1st and 3rd cubital cells sub- 

 equal; tegulse and stigma testaceous, nervures brown. Legs reddish 

 brown, paler on the underside. Abdomen petiolated, brown, 

 smooth and shining, a broad yellow fascia on the posterior margin 

 of the 2nd and 5th segments above ; the base and apex of the 



