Manchester Memoirs, Vol. xli. (1897), No. 4. 41 



Halticella erythropus, sp. nop. 



Nigra, pedibus rufis, coxis, tibiis tarsisque posticis nigris; 

 alis hyalinis. Long. 5 mm. 

 Hab. Agra (Rothney). 



Head coarsely punctured; above sparsely covered with 

 silvery hair; the face from the bottom of the eyes on 

 either side of the antennal groove thickly covered with 

 pale golden hair; the sides of the head stoutly margined. 

 Antennae long, slender, bare, the apex of the second joint 

 rufous. Thorax strongly punctured, the punctures on the 

 mesonotum much finer and closer at the base, and there 

 is a smooth, impunctate spot on the sides. Median seg- 

 ment areolated, the base fringed with long pale golden 

 hair; the basal central area elongated pyriform, trans- 

 versely striolated. Propleurae strongly punctured ; the 

 mesopleurae hollowed, bare, stoutly longitudinally strio- 

 lated ; metapleurae coarsely rugosely punctured, thickly 

 -covered with long fulvo-silvery hair. Fore coxae with the 

 edges on the outer side margined ; the hind coxae very 

 smooth and shining, thickly covered with long silver)- hair 

 in front; the femora slightly, the tibiae and tarsi thickly 

 covered with silvery hair. Abdomen very smooth ; the 

 second segment at the top and apex laterally thickly and 

 the other segments more sparsely covered with long 

 silvery hair. Wings hyaline, a faint fuscous cloud under 

 the costa; the nervures fuscous; tegulae rufo-testaceous. 



The parapsidal furrows are obsolete; the apex of the 

 scutellum without teeth; the antennae are 11-jointed, long, 

 slender ; the scape reaches to the ocelli ; the hind coxae 

 have a large stout tooth at the apex. The fore tibiae may 

 be infuscated, and the hinder rufous behind; the median 

 segment at the sides near the apex projects into a stout , 

 large tooth. 



This species agrees best with Euchalcis as defined by 

 Kirby (Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) xvii., 63). 



