igoS.] Records of the Indian Museum. 353 



Pseudagenia culiciformis , form, nov, 



cf . Uniform black. Head and thorax anteriorly covered with 

 short, erect, soft whitish hairs, those on the cheeks posteriorly form 

 a fringe. Head, pronotum, mesonotum, the sides of the thorax and 

 the abdomen above very minutely and closely punctured ; scutellum 

 and postscutellum obliquely finely striate ; median segment more 

 coarsely punctured than the thorax, with a granular appearance. 

 Wings hyaline, nervures brown, stigma jet black. Head lenticular, 

 from in front orbicular; clypeus convex, as broad as long ; antennae 

 long, thick and densely pubescent ; second, third and fourth joints of 

 the flagellum subequal ; face in front slightly convex, vertex 

 strongly arched, ocelli much closer to each other than are the 

 posterior ones to the eyes. Thorax and median segment slightly 

 compressed, narrow, together half as long again as the abdomen ; 

 pronotum comparatively long, the sides anteriorly convergent, its 

 posterior margin angularly arched ; mesonotum convex ; scutellum 

 laterally compressed ; median segment very long, gently sloped to 

 apex, rounded and convex ; legs long, slender, tibiae entirely without 

 spines. Abdomen short, fusiform, subpetiolate, with a trace of a 

 transverse furrow on the second ventral segment. 



Length. — 0^,6; ^:v/>. 13 mm. 



Hah. — Kumaon : Naini Tal, 6,400 feet. 



Pseudagenia invidiosa, form nov. 



$ . Black, covered all over with fine, short, white down, head 

 and thorax very minutely and delicately aciculate ; median seg- 

 ment finely transversely striate ; abdomen very minutely and 

 somewhat sparsely punctured, shining, the apical margins of all the 

 segments very narrowly brownish testaceous. Head somewhat 

 wider than the thorax ; mandibles almost hidden under the clypeus, 

 their apices castaneous red ; clypeus comparatively large, convex, 

 anteriorly triangularly produced, carinate down the middle ; 

 antennse comparatively stout, the second joint of the flagellum one- 

 third longer than the third, the latter slightly longer than the 

 fourth; front convex, sloping upwards to the vertex; vertex trans- 

 verse, the ocelli in an equilateral triangle closer to each other than 

 are either of the posterior ocelli to the eyes ; pronotum almost trans- 

 verse anteriorly, broadly arched posteriorly; mesonotum slightly 

 convex; scutellum, postscutellum and median segment declivous, 

 the last rounded posteriorly and furrowed down the middle ; legs 

 stout, smooth or with only a few minute spines on the intermediate 

 tibiae ; wings hyaline at base, fuscous towards their apices ; abdo- 

 men subpetiolate, fusiform ; sting well exserted. 



Length — 5,8; exp. 17 mm. 



Hab. — Soondrijal, Nepal. 



Closest to P. clypeata, Bingh., from which it differs in the shape 

 of the clypeus ; that in clypeata is transversely suboval and has a con- 

 spicuous white macula on each side ; the legs also are different in 

 colour, being entirely black in the present form. 



