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pubescence ; the middle tibiae are obscure testaceous at 

 the base ; the rest of it and the tarsi black. The lower 

 side of the stigma and the apical nervures are testaceous. 

 The petiole obscure brown; the raised central part finely 

 longitudinally striated ; the second and third rather 

 coarsely longitudinally striated ; the second much more 

 strongly than the third; and it has also its sides depressed 

 and finely and irregularly striated ; both have a smoother 

 longitudinal line down the middle ; the other segments 

 are obscure brownish and aciculated. 



Spinaria nigriceps, sp. nov. (PL 3, f. 7). 



Nigra, thorace abdominisque basi rufis ; pcdibus ante- 

 rioribus pallide flavis ; alls fuscis. Long. 7 mm. 

 Hab. Ceylon (Yerbury). 



Head black, the oral region and organs testaceous ; a 

 broad furrow leads down from the ocelli and there is a 

 curved one over each antennae. Antennae longer than 

 the body, black, the flagellum covered with a close 

 microscopic pile. Thorax bare, shining ; the sutures 

 crenulated ; a broad curved crenulated depression on the 

 lower part of the mesosternum, which is black for the 

 greater part ; the median segment bears large shallow 

 punctures. Legs covered with white hair ; the four 

 anterior entirely pallid yellow ; the hinder black, the 

 apices of the coxae and the trochanters pale. Wings 

 longer than the body ; fusco-hyaline ; the nervures and 

 stigma blackish ; the former paler towards the apex. 

 Abdomen shining, base longitudinally striolated ; the base 

 with a large distinctly margined (rounded at the apex) 

 space, which is smooth, except for a few scattered punc- 

 tures ; at the end of the metapleura over the apex of the 

 hind coxa is a sharp tooth ; the apical segment in the 

 middle ends in two large sharp teeth, the part between 

 them at their base being rounded ; at their side is a 



