S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 60. (Budapest, 1999)
The present text deals with the addition of four new species from India which are described and illustrated on a uniform systematic pattern. The terminology used in the text is after Ross (1937, 1945) and Malaise (1945). A key to the Indian species of this genus is provided. The type materials of the new species are housed at Division of Entolomogy, Pusa National Collections, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, while a female and male (Paratypes) of each species are deposited in the Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (henceforth HNHM). Abbreviations used in text are: EL = eye length, IATS = inner apical tibial spur, ICD = inter-cenchri distance, IDMO = interocular distance at lever of median ocellus, ITD = inter-tegular distance, LID = lower interocular distance, MB = metabasitarsus, OATS = outer apical tibial spur, OCL = ocello-occipital line, OOL - oculoocellar line, POL = postocellar line. Neostromboceros micropunctatus sp. n. (Figs 1,5, 9,13,17,21,25) Female — Colour: Body black, whitish are: medial spot on tergites 8-9, extreme apices of coxae and trochanters of front four legs, metatrochanter and adjoining parts of coxae and femora, basal 1/3 of anterior aspect of front four tibiae, basal 2/3 of metatibia. Wings hyaline, venation including costa, subcosta and stigma fuscous to black. Structure: Average length 7.5 mm. Antenna subicrassate in the middle, 1.8 x head width, flagellum not compressed, segments 3 and 4 as 5:4 clypeus (Fig. 1) almost truncate, labrum (Fig. 1) broader than long as 3:2 with rounded anterior margin, malar space linear, supraantennal pits double confluent, posterior one shallow and large. LID:IDMO:EL =1:1.3:1, POL:OCL:OOL =1:2:1.5. Frontal area almost at level of eyes, median fovea almost obsolete, in form of a shallow depression above supraclypeal area and anterior to median ocellus, postocellar furrow absent, inter- and circumocellar furrows distinct lateral furrows distinct, excurved, ending just before hypothetical hind margin of head; postocellar area convex, as long as broad, head narrowing behind eyes. Hind wing with vein lr-m joining at junction of Rs with R+Sc. IDCTTD = 1:4, mesoscutellum subconvex, appendage ecarinate. Tarsal claw (Fig. 5) with subapical tooth shorter than apical one, basal lobe distinct metabasitarsus longer than following 3 joints combined as 4:3, IATS:MB:OATS - 1:2.8:0.9. Ovipositor sheath as in Fig. 9 (lateral view), and Fig. 13 (dorsal view). Lancet (Fig. 25) with 6 serrulae. Sculpture: Head smooth with fine ridges and densely micropunctated frontal area. Thorax impunctate except posterior border of mesoscutellum that bears irregular rows of deep, isolated punctures. Abdomen almost impunctate, sushining. Pubescence: Silvery 0.5 x scape lenght. Male —Average lenght 6 mm. Similar to female exept fuscous to black parts of female tibiae and tarsi ferruginous. Genitalia: Penis valve (Fig. 17), gonoforceps (Fig. 21). Material examined — Holotype: Female, Arunachal Pradesh, Nine-mile, (Bomdila), 1500 m, 24.5.1993, coll. V. Vasu. Paratypes: 2 females with same data as holotype Dirang 1500 m, 4 females, 1 male, 17.9.1992, coll. M. S. Saini (one female and one male are deposited in the HNHM); Sessa, 1100 m, 1 female, 23.6.1993, coll. M. S. Saini; Sikkim, Namchi, 1500 m, 1 male, 14.5.1993, coll. V. Vasu; Singhik, 1400m, 2 females, 8.5.1995, coll. M. S. Saini; Nagaland, Zunheboto, 1870 m, 1 female, 14.5.1993, coll. V. Vasu; Chuchuymlang, 900 m 1 male, 9.5.1994, coll. V. Vasu. Individual variations —All specimens alike. Distribution — India: Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Nagaland.
