718 MR. R. E. TURNER OX 



(S . This is very near the male of claripen^iis, but may be 

 distinguished by the less elongate petiole, the narrow basal 

 portion of which is scarcely more than half as long as the 

 moderately swollen apical portion of the segment. 



Length, c? $ , 10 mm. 



Ilab. Bengal, Bombay, and Ceylon. 



Elis (Mesa) claripennis Bingh. 



Myzine claripennis Bingh. Fauna Brit. India, Hymen, i. p. 68 

 (1897), ?. 



Myzine hortata Nurse, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. 

 p. si (1902), $. 



5 . Differs from petiolaia as noticed under that species. 

 Bingham's description of the species is inaccurate as to the 

 median segment, and this has misled Nurse. The segment is not 

 smooth and shining, and the longitudinal impression, though 

 not very long, cannot be said to be tria.ngulari 



S . The male, which has not been previously described, closely 

 resembles ■petiolata Sm. Head and thorax closely punctured, 

 most coarsely on the front^ median segment rugose ; abdomen 

 very slender, shining, minutely punctiired. First abdominal 

 segment more than half as long again as the hind femur, the 

 narrow petiole very little shorter than the feebly swollen apical 

 portion ; second segment very narrow at tlie base, neai'ly half as 

 fong again As the third segment. Seventh dorsal segment not 

 incised at the apex, pointed, convex and without a distinct 

 pygidial area. 



Black ; mandibles, clypeuB, the apex of the interantennal 

 prominence, posterior margin of the pronotum, an apical narrow 

 band on doi^sal segments 1-6, strongly bisintiate on segments 

 2-6, base of the tegulse, fore tarsi, anterior and intermediate 

 tibia? in front, base of hind tibise a,nd base of intermediate and 

 hind tarsi pale yellow. Wings hyaline-, nervures fuscous. 



Length, J 8 mm., $ 10 mm. 



Hah. Burma, Ceylon, Bengal, and Deesa. 



The male has the two basal abdominal segmfents more slender 

 than in petiolata, the first with the apical portion less swollen, 

 the basal narrow petiole longer in proportion ; the second 

 narrower at the base. 



Elis (Mesa) ustulata Turn. 



Plesia {Mesa) ustulata Turn; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) i. 

 p. 510 (1908), $, 



5 . This is nearest to claripennis Bingh., but is a larger and 

 iiiore robust species, somewhat more closely punctured, with the 

 wiiigs distinctly darker and the puncthres oh the abdomen 

 larger. 



Hah. Yiuizalin Valley, Tenasserinii " 



