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VII. Descriptions of neio genera and species of East 

 Indian TentliredinidiB. By Peter Cainieron. 



[Read 4th April, 1877.] 



For the examination of the following East Indian 

 Tenthredinidce I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. 

 Moore, of the East Indian Museum, and of Mr. Frederick 

 Smith. 



Genus Tentiiredo, S. Str. 

 Tenthredo latifasciata, sp. n. 



$. Black, a thin line on pronotum; cenchri, a large 

 lateral spot extending over the three basal segments of 

 abdomen, and mandibles, white ; palpi pale. Legs reddish ; 

 cox», trochanters, and base of femora, black; posterior 

 tarsi fuscous. Head and thorax covered with a pale 

 pubescence, punctured, smooth, shining, with a few shallow 

 punctures ; terebra long, projecting. Antennas a little 

 longer than abdomen, the 3rd joint not much longer than 

 4th. 



Length 6 lines; alar. exp. 12 1 lines. 



Hob. — India. 



Very similar to T. atra, Linne, but that species has 

 the clypeus and labrum white, no white mark on abdomen, 

 and posterior tarsi and apex of tibiae black. 



Tenthredo simulans, sp. n. 



2 . Of similar size and colour to the European T. 

 olivacea, King, but the incision in clypeus is very much 

 shallower, and at the same time broader ; the antennje 

 from 2nd joint quite black, the legs without a black 

 line above, and the abdomen from the 3rd segment at tlie 

 sides and beneath black. The dorsum of the abdomen 

 is also black, but there is a variety of T. olivacea having 

 this peculiarity. 



If it were not for the difference in the form of the 

 clypeus, I should have considered this species to be merely 

 a climatic variety of T. olivacea. 



Hah. — India. 



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