72 TENTHRED1NIDJ3. 



76. Hylotoma excisa. 



Hylotoma excisa, Cameron, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 90. 

 Rah. Penang. 



77. Hylotoma microcepliala. 



Hylotoma microcepliala, Vollenh. Tijdschr. JEnt. iii. p. 130 (1860). 

 Hah. Java. 



78. Hylotoma mterstitialis. 



Hylotoma mterstitialis, Cameron, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 91. 

 Hah. Darjeeling.. 



79. Hylotoma fumipennis 



imip 



Hah. Punjab 



Hylotoma fumipennis, Smith, 2nd Yarkand Mission, Hym. p. 18 

 (1878). 



80. Hylotoma sinensis. 

 (Plate V. fig. 2.) 



Hylotoma microcepliala, Cameron (nee Vollenh.), Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. 1876, p. 460. 



Exp. al. 7-11 lin., long. corp. 3-5 lin. 



Head small, blue-black ; antennas testaceous, brown towards the 

 extremity. Body yellow, thorax darker, base and tip of abdomen 

 and middle of pectus more or less distinctly marked with violet- 

 brown ; scutellum sometimes of the same colour ; legs testaceous, 

 more or less varied with violet-brown. Wings light fusco -hyaline, 

 with a violet iridescence ; hind wings clearer. 



I am unable to detect middle spurs in this species. 



Hah. China. 



a-c. (J 2 • (Types of species.) Amoy. Purchased. 



d. 2 • Foo-Chow-Foo. G. T. Lay, Esq. 



81. Hylotoma xanthogaster. 

 (Plate V. fig. 1.) 

 Hylotoma xanthogaster, Cameron, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1876, p. 459. 



Exp. al. 8-9 lin., long. corp. 4 lin. 



Head, thorax, and legs steel-blue ; metathorax and the middle of 

 the abdomen above pale violaceous ; sides, extremity and under- 

 surface of abdomen uniform yellow. Wings smoky hyaline ; third 

 submarginal nervure curved outwards above the middle. In one 



