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areolet is as wide as the space bounded by the second 

 transverse cubital and the recurrent nervure. Abdomen 

 shining, impunctate; bare; black; the apex of the petiole, 

 the apex and sides of the second segment, the third 

 segment except at the base and the others almost 

 entirely, rufous. 



HEMITELES VEDA, Sp. fiOV. 



Ferrugineus, thorace nigro-maculato ; alls fulvis. Long. 

 15 ; terebra 4 mm. 



Hub. Trincomali, Ceylon (Yerbury). 



Head ferruginous, the part above the antennae, and a 

 triangular mark leading down to it from the ocelli, 

 black, the part enclosing the ocelli being also black ; 

 strongly punctured, the clypeus and the part immediately 

 over the antennae, smooth ; the inner orbits below the 

 antennae obscure yellow ; the inner orbits above the 

 antennae distinctly margined ; the clypeus near the base 

 of the mandibles, black. Antennae bare ; from the 

 thirteenth joint brownish beneath, blackish above. 

 Thorax rufous ; a small mark on the propleurae, the 

 mesopleurae broadly at the base, narrowly at the top and 

 down the apex, the metapleurae except a mark in the 

 centre leading into a smaller one at the side, black ; the 

 extreme base of the median segment, its apex and two 

 oblique marks there, black; the metanotal keels almost 

 obsolete at the base ; towards the apex there are two 

 straight central and an oblique lateral fairly well indi- 

 cated ; the lower side of the propleurae obliquely striolated ; 

 the base and apex of the mesopleurae narrowly longitu- 

 dinally striated ; the base of the metapleurae crenulated, 

 and on the lower side there is a stout curved keel. Legs 

 ferruginous, the tips of the tarsi and a large mark on the 

 hinder side of the posterior coxae, black. Wings fulvous, 

 lighter coloured at the apex ; the stigma and costa fulvous ; 

 the nervures blackish ; the areolet wider than long, 



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