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except its six pure white central joints, extreme mandibular apices, 

 ocellar region circularly, terebra and hind onychii, black. Kemainder 

 of hind tarsal joints and apices of their tibiae infuscate. Wings 

 fulvesceut hyaline, with nervures black and stigma luteous. Petiolar 

 area not transversely reticulate. Length, 10 mm. From the six 

 described species of this genus, of which all are from India, the present 

 differs in its obsolete apophyses, subfiliform antennae which are slightly 

 explauate beyond their centre and apically attenuate, in its superficial 

 gastrocoeli which are not elongate, its mainly testaceous hind legs and 

 pale stigma. It most closely approaches X. latebalteata, Cam. Ann. 

 Nat. Hist, xx, 1907, p. 186, which has broad black thoracic and abdo- 

 minal markings, with transversely reticulate petiolar area. 



The type was captured at East London during July, 1914, by 

 E. M. Lightfoot. 



TRIBE LISTRODROMIDES. 



NEOTYPUS, F6rst. 

 Ver. pr. Elieinl. 1868, p. 194. 



NEOTYPUS CONFLATUS, sp. nov. 



? only. A squat, convex, dull brick-red species with small white 

 markings. Head as broad as thorax and posteriorly as broad as the 

 eyes; occiput shining and subglabrous; frons finely punctate, its white 

 orbits elevated and higher than eyes, with scrobes large and glittering; 

 face convex, closely and evenly punctate, continuous with the stout 

 clypeus ; cheeks elongate and buccate, labrum exserted ; mandibles 

 very stout with their subequal teeth black and their base, with an 

 external orbital dot, white. Antennae stout, short and immaculate, 

 not extending beyond thorax. Thorax very stout and as long as 

 abdomen, deeply and not very closely punctate, white-pilose ; iiotauli 

 wanting ; auteradical callosity and subradical line white, niesosternum 

 basally black; petiolar area deeply impressed and occupying three- 

 fourths of metanotum ; areola small and twice as broad as long, 

 cost ulae entire, external area narrower than the dentiparal; spiracles 

 oval, apophyses wanting. Scutellum sparsely punctate, shining and 

 margined throughout ; postscutellum white. Abdomen broadly ovate 

 with the black fourth and broadly white-margined following segments 

 small ; basal segment sparsely punctate, its glabrous apex white and 

 petiole elongate ; second and the nigrescent third segments broader 

 than long, deeply punctate, the former with strong basal gastrocoeli 



