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front of them, and a minute furrow runs down from 

 them to the antennae ; the hinder separated by a 

 somewhat greater distance from each other than they 

 are from the eyes. Clypeus at the apex margined, forming 

 a rounded curve. Antennae stout, brownish beneath, the 

 joints curved beneath ; the third joint a little shorter than the 

 fourth. Pronotum obliquely rounded at the sides. Meta- 

 notum densely covered with long whitish hairs ; median 

 segment with a bluish tinge ; and a gradually-rounded slope ; 

 alutaceous, sparsely covered with long white hairs. There 

 is a longitudinal furrow in the centre of the mesopleurae. 

 Abdomen sessile, granular, the basal segment covered 

 thickly with stout white depressed hair, the rest of the 

 abdomen pruinose. Legs thickly pruinose ; the tibiae 

 sparcely spined ; the long spur of the hind tibiae fully two- 

 thirds of the length of the metatarsus. Wings iridescent, 

 hyaline at the base ; from the basal nervure suffused with 

 dark fuscous, darkest at the apex ; the second cubital cellule 

 at the top and bottom a little longer than the third ; the 

 nervures blackish. 



Length 10 mm. 



Hab. Barrackpore {Rothney). 



4. Ceropales claripennis, sp. nov. 



Black, shining, the mandibles, clypeus, face, orbits, except 

 narrowly interrupted at the top ; a line on the pronotum 

 behind, the angles in front, a broad line at the apex of the 

 mesonotum, a line on the scutellum, the metanotum, a 

 narrow line down the middle of median segment ; the pro- 

 pleurae beneath, a broad oblique band on the mesopleurae 

 above and two smaller ones on the lower half, and two large 

 marks on the metapleurae, clear yellow. Abdomen ferru- 

 ginous, the extreme base black. Legs reddish ; the fore 

 coxae yellow, with a black mark behind ; the four hinder 

 coxae black, yellow and red beneath, the tarsi black ; the 



