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towards the apex. Mandibles at the base finely rugose. 

 Profiotum broad, broadly rounded in front, behind concave. 

 Median segment short, with a rather abrupt slope, trans- 

 versely striated. The thorax above in front is shining, 

 minutely punctured,laterally opaque, alutaceous, the median 

 segment transversely striated. Abdomen shining, pruinose ; 

 the apical segment above shining, impunctate, sparsely 

 covered laterally with long pale hairs. Wings sub-hyaline ; 

 the second cubital cellule above slightly longer than the 

 third ; below a little shorter ; the first recurrent nervure is 

 received a little before the middle ; the second in the basal 

 third. Legs pruinose ; the long spur of the hind tibiae does 

 not reach the middle ; tarsi with a few fulvous spines. 



PSEUDAGENIA VEDA, Sp. nov. 



Black, wings clear hyaline ; a small fuscous cloud below 

 and touching the stigma. Eyes a little converging, the 

 hinder ocelli separated from each other by a very slightly 

 less distance than they are from the eyes. Clypeus short,. 

 convex, the apex broadly rounded. Occiput slightly 

 concave in the middle. The front strongly aciculate ; the 

 vertex shining, almost impunctate. The head, except on 

 the vertex densely covered with a silvery pubescence ; the 

 vertex with a few fuscous hairs ; the lower and outer orbits 

 with some long silvery ones. Pronotum shorter than the 

 head, roundly narrowed towards the head, shallowly concave 

 behind. Pro- and meso- thorax alutaceous ; the median 

 segment with a rounded slope, irregularly transversely 

 striated ; deeply furrowed down the centre, the sides 

 covered with long whitish hairs. Abdomen shining ; 

 pruinose, having an olive tint, the petiole with a distinct 

 neck. Radial cellule wide, angled where the cubital 

 nervures are received ; the second cubital cellule at the top 

 distinctly shorter than the third, especially on the lower 

 side ; the first and second transverse cubital nervures with 



