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the sixth, they almost unite ; ventral surface lemon- 

 yellow, rugose, thickly covered with short white hairs. 



Stelis parvula, sp. nov. 



Nigra; dense albo-hirsuta ; tegulis abdomineque albo- 

 maculatis ; alis hyalinis. Long. 4 mm. 



Hab. Barrackpore (Rothney). 



Head thickly covered with longish white hairs ; the 

 rest of the head covered with similar hair ; but not so 

 thickly ; the tips of the mandibles piceous ; punctured. 

 Antennae with the scape covered closely with moderately 

 long pubescence ; the flagellum with a microscopic pile. 

 Pronotum finely, the mesonotum coarsely, punctured; the 

 pronotum in front fringed with long white hair; the meso- 

 notum in front is also fringed with long white hair ; the 

 rest of it has the pubescence sparser and shorter ; the 

 scutellum nearly as strongly punctured as the meso- 

 notum ; its apex entire, rounded ; its sides broadly white. 

 M esopleurae thickly covered with white hair ; the pro- 

 pleurae slightly pilose ; the meta- as thickly haired as the 

 meso-pleurae ; the base of the median segment thickly 

 covered with long white hairs ; its apex hardly pilose. 

 Legs black ; thickly covered with long white hairs, the 

 knees and apices of the tarsi rufous ; the calcaria yellowish- 

 white. Wings clear hyaline ; the nervures fuscous ; the 

 stigma darker ; tegulae large, yellow, a large black mark 

 in the centre. Abdomen thickly covered with white hairs, 

 especially towards the apex ; the sides of the segments 

 with longish, moderately broad yellow marks ; the basal 

 two segments narrowly lined with yellow ; the third to 

 fifth segments bear two elongated yellow marks ; the 

 apical segment has an elongated mark at the sides, and 

 two somewhat roundish ones in the centre. Ventral seg- 

 ments thickly covered, especially at the apices, with long 

 white hairs ; their sides lined with yellow. 



