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yellow, with a definite fuscous pattern consisting of three irregular longitudinal 

 stripes and a spot over each humeral angle ; lateral margin and posterior carinate 

 margin yellow. Propleuron sordid yellow more or less covered with a broad 

 longitudinal brown stripe extending from anterior margin of collar, over base 

 of acetabula to posterior margin, the posterior lateral angle yellow. Scutellum 

 fuscous with a yellow V-shaped elevation on apical two-thirds. Mesopleuron 

 fuscous with an irregular whitish pubescent area ; acetabula pallid. Meta- 

 pleuron pale yellow internally, dark fuscous externally. Hemielytra fulvous 

 yellow with variable and irregular fuscous markings and the discal and apical 

 cell of corium largely fuscous, corium sometimes with a distinct subapical 

 fuscous band ; veins, especially apically, whitish-yellow ; apical angle of corium 

 beyond transverse fuscous band pale yellow ; membrane smoky, the veins 

 infuscate. Coxae and trochanters yellow ; anterior femur sordid yellow with 

 an apical and a broad irregular subapical fuscous annulation, its sides each with 

 a row of oblique convexly elevated shining brown spots ; anterior tibia yellow 

 with apex, two median and one sub-basal fuscous annulations, minute spines 

 black ; middle femora pale yellow with an apical and two median annulations 

 and one or two spots towards base, fuscous ; middle tibia with an apical, two 

 median and a sub-basal annulation fuscous. Hind femora and tibiae pale yellow, 

 sometimes shaded with fulvous, each with an apical, five median and a sub-basal 

 annulation, fuscous ; all tarsi fuscous with apices of second segments pale. 

 Venter fulvous yellow, with a dark shining brown stripe down each side within 

 the connexivum and expanding apically to form large spots on the seventh and 

 ninth ventrites '; basal half of ovipositor brown, apical half yellow ; apical lateral 

 margin of ninth ventrite whitish-yellow ; connexivum brown, tinted with bright 

 red, each segment with a small elongate yellow spot in middle around spiracle ; 

 dorsum brown, the basal tergites yellow. 



Structure. — Narrow elongate, more than five times as long as wide across 

 base of pronotum. Head exserted ; beyond eyes, elongate with sides more 

 or less parallel gradually converging anteriorly, nearly twice as long as postocular 

 region (15 : 8) ; eye equal in width to frons between eyes, and about four-fifths 

 as long as ante-ocular region of head (12 : 15) ; rostrum extending to meso- 

 sternum ; relative lengths of segments 9 : 33 : 32 : 13 ; first antennal segment 

 slender, distinctly longer than head (48 : 35) ; relative lengths of antennal seg- 

 ments ($) 48 : 70 : 70 : 45. Pronotum more than twice as wide at base as at 

 pronotal collar (46 : 19) ; the anterior lobe about two and a half times (18 : 7), 



