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Show 444 LT.-COL. C. T. BINGHAM ON THE [Mar. 17, Genus PALARUS, Latreille. 253. PALARUS ORIENTALIS, Kohl. Palarus orientalis, Kohl, Verh. d. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 1884, 422, 2 8 ; Cam. Mem. & Proc Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc' ser. 4, ii. (1889), 148, 1. Family NYSSONIDE, Wesmael. Genus STIZUS, Latreille. 254. STIZUS PRISMATICUS (Smith). Larra prismatica, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc ii. (1858), 103,1 $ d; id. ibid. xi. (1867), 367, 10. Stizus prismaticus, Sich. Hym. d. Novara-Beise, 142; Handl. Sitzungsb. d. k. Akad. d. Wissensch. Wien, 1892, 55, 21. Pundaloya (Green coll.). Genus GORYTES, Latreille. 255. GORYTES GREENII, sp. nov. (Plate XV. fig. 8.) $ . L. 14 millim. Exp. 32 millim. Brownish red variegated with yellow; wings flavo-hyaline, the fore wing with a large dark brown macula on the costal margin at the apex. Head not so broad as the thorax, smooth, or with only a few scattered punctures, covered with a thin sericeous golden pde only seen in certain lights ; mandibles yellow, ferruginous at apex; clypeus light brownish red, transversely oval and convex; antennae brown above, fulvous red below; the scape in front and an abbreviated line on the inner margin of the eyes yellow ; front slightly concave ; the ocelli in a broad triangle on the vertex, a shallow furrow from the anterior ocellus to a little above the antennae-. Thorax brown ; prothorax smooth and shining, its posterior margin broadly yellow; mesothorax above very finely longitudinally striated, carrying two short parallel carinas on the disc anteriorly; scutellum, postscutellum, and the sides of the thorax somewhat coarsely striated, a broad fascia on the scutellum, a narrower one on the postscutellum, and a spot under the base of the wings yellow; metathorax posteriorly rounded, roughly reticulated, the triangular enclosed space at its base longitudinally striate. Wings yellowish hyaline and iridescent; the front wing with a large dark brown spot occupying the whole of the radial cell, and extending below into the 2nd and 3rd cubital cells; the 2nd cubital cell, receiving both recurrent nervures, is at base about two-thirds the length of the 3rd cubital cell; the 1st and 3rd cubital cells sub-equal; tegulse and stigma testaceous, nervures brown. Legs reddish brown, paler on the underside. Abdomen petiolated, brown, smooth and shining, a broad yellow fascia on the posterior margin of the 2nd and 5th segments above; the base and apex of the |