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ually wider until it reaches the costal margin; veins very strongly 

 pilose throughout and slightly nodulate near base; five apical and 

 two discoidal cells. 



Undersurface of body dark brown or black. Coxae, trochan- 

 ters and proximal ends of femora black; distal ends of femora 

 ferruginous; tibiae and tarsi yellow. 



Length 3.6 mm. ; width between tips of humeral angles 1.7 mm. 



Type: female. 



Locality : Sandakan, Borneo. 



Unique type in Professor Baker's collection. 



49. Gargara nigra sp. nov. 



Entirely black except eyes and tarsi which are yellow-brown; 

 posterior process straight, tip slightly decurved and extending just 

 beyond internal angles of tegmina; tegmina entirely black, opaque; 

 undersurface of body black. 



Head wider than long, black, finely punctate, rather strongly 

 pubescent with very short silvery hairs; base sinuate; eyes very 

 large, prominent, shining, yellow-brown with brown spots; ocelli 

 small, whitish-yellow, glistening, twice as far from each other as 

 from the eyes and situated well above a line drawn through centres 

 of eyes; inferior margins of genae sloping, sinuate; antennae very 

 fine, not prominent; clypeus about as long as wide, black, punctate, 

 pubescent, extending for about one-third its length below inferior 

 margins of genae, tip rounded, slightly flanged. 



Pronotum entirely black, finely punctate, sparingly pubescent 

 with very short silvery hairs ; metopidium wider than high, sloping, 

 no central carina, an irregular callosity above internal angle of 

 each eye; humeral angles large, prominent, triangular, blunt; 

 median dorsal carina not percurrent, distinct on posterior process, 

 only slightly visible above humeral angles and entirely obsolete 

 on metopidium ; dorsum nearly straight, only slightly convex above 

 metopidium; scutellum plainly visible on each side, black, punc- 

 tate; posterior process slender, straight, entirely black, finely punc- 

 tate, sparsely pubescent, tip slightly deflexed and extending a little 

 beyond internal angles of tegmina but not nearly reaching tip of 

 abdomen. 



Tegmina entirely black, opaque; base slightly punctate, coria- 

 ceous; veins black, prominent, inclined to be finely nodulate; five 

 apical and two discoidal cells. 



Undersurface of body entirely black, punctate, sparingly pubes- 

 cent. Legs entirely black except the extreme tips of the tibiae 

 and the tarsi which are yellow-brown. 



Length 3.9 mm. ; width between tips of humeral angles 2 mm. 



R. A. Soc, No. 82, 1920. 



