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cliscreted from the pleural area ; the dull and shagreened thorax, 

 of both the known kinds (lib. cit. p. 260 et Zeits. Hyni. u. Dipt. v. 

 1905, p. 142) from northern India, is similar to that of >S. ochropis 

 Gmel. Though not agreeing in every particular with the 

 diagnosis of Leptothecics, v/liich was based on a single Oriental 

 female, the following kinds are sufficiently homogeneous and 

 differ from SopUsmenus so little (besides the lack of basal 

 metanotal sulcus) that I should expect to find it mixed among 

 Szepligeti's conception of that genus. 



1. ALUTACEFER, Sp. n. 



A very dull and alutaceous, black species Avith sparse pure 

 white, and the thorax with red, markings. Head short and not 

 extending posteriorly behind the eyes ; ocelli at vertex of the 

 abrupt occipital declivity ; face closely punctate, its centre and 

 the continuous clypeus more coarsely punctate, centre of the 

 latter slightly emarginate with its glabrous lateial angles white 

 and subelevated ; palpi, excejit their apical joint, and tlieexserted 

 labrum white ; frons transversely pure white thi'oughout. 

 Antennse attenuate, and a little explanate, beyond their central 

 partial white band. Thorax deplanate and rosy-red with pro- 

 thorax, sides of mesonotum and disc of metanotum black ; notauli 

 very small, speculum not shining ; areola double as long as 

 broad, basally acuminate but not reaching base of inetathorax, 

 with weak costulaj ; petiolar area shoi't, basal area triangular and 

 hardly carinate ; spiracles elongate, apophyses strong and acute. 

 Scutellum red, deplanate, somewhat elongate and laterally strongly 

 carinate to the flavidous apex. Abdomen with apices of the two 

 basal segments, whole of the sixth and seventh, and of the second 

 to fourth ventral ones, white ; terebra black and distinctly 

 exserted, with its extreme base covered by hypopygium ; first 

 segment evenly punctate and somewhat narrow, thyridii of the 

 second lateral and longitudinally linear. Legs elongate and 

 slender ; anterior biick-red with coxse and trochanters white, 

 their tarsi and the intermediate femora, nigrescent ; hind legs 

 black, with the second to fifth tai-sal joints pure wliite. AVings 

 hyaline and not broad ; tegulaj and costa black, stigma ferru- 

 ginous ; areolet as broad as high, latei'ally coalescent above ; 

 discoidal cell narrow and subpai-allel, with obsolete nervelet ; 

 basal nervure subcontinuous. — 6 difl[ers in having part of the 

 facial and external orbits, whole clypeus but not centre of the 

 frons, white ; the llagellum is setigerous and more elongate ; 

 the apical half of the metanotum black-and-red, with white genital 

 valvulfe. Length, 11-13 mm. J 5- — Var. S- Head black 

 with the palpi a,nd frontal orbits alone white. Another S has 

 the legs basally nigrescent-red. — Males were captured in the Tero 

 Eorest of Uganda during July 1912 (C. C. GovxUy^. Females at 

 Unyoro about 3400 feet in the Budongo Forest of Uganda in 

 mid-December 1911. Two additional females, also from Uganda, 

 have the centre of scutellum and a dot on the postscutellum 



