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Of C. lahilis, Cam., I only know the S- It cannot well be 

 confounded with any of the above. It has the metanotum strongly 

 rugosely punctured-reticulated, with indistinct transverse keels '; 

 the scutellum is keeled laterally to the top of the apical slope ; the 

 labrum projects and is white ; the abdominal petiole is long, narrow, 

 not perceptibly dilated at the apex — more as in OspryncJiotus than 

 as in Cryptus — and the hind tarsi are annulated with white ; the 

 areolet is large, 5-angled ; the disco-cubital nervure is broken by a 

 stump of a nervure indistinctly ; the transverse basal nervure is 

 interstitial ; the transverse median nervure is broken distinctly 

 below the middle. The third antennal joint is not much longer 

 than the fourth. Parapsidal furrows distinct on the basal half of 

 mesonotum only. The species probably will form the type of a new 

 genus allied to Zonocryptus, Ashm., and Bathy crisis, Cam. 



Cryptus spilocephalus, sp. nov. 



Black ; the post-petiole and the following segments of the 

 abdomen, the legs, except the coxae and trochanters, labrum, a 

 line on the inner orbits shortly above the middle, a short one 

 below the antennae, a broader one on the top extended across 

 behind the ocelli, the tubercles, and the apex of scutellum, red ; 

 the coxae, trochanters, and almost the basal half of the first 

 abdominal segments, black ; wings hyaline, highly iridescent, very 

 slightly tinged with fulvous ; the stigma, costa, and nervures black ; 

 the transverse median nervure interstitial. ? and J . 



Length 13 mm. ; terebra 4 mm. 



Cape Colony. Worcester Distr. ; Hex Eiver (January). 



Antennal scape rufous-black below ; the sixth to eighth joints 

 marked with white below ; the flagellum on apical half brownish; 

 Ocellar region rugosely punctured ; the front transversely striated, 

 more closely in the middle above ; a short, fine keel runs down from 

 the ocelli. Face closely punctured, opaque ; the top of the clypeus 

 is more strongly, but not so closely punctured ; the apex is much 

 more shining, and only very sparsely punctured. Mandibles and 

 palpi black, covered with white pubescence. Pronotum smooth in 

 the centre, the sides stoutly striated ; the centre is rufous behind, as 

 is also the middle of the propleurae at the base. Mesonotuni 

 closely, strongly punctured ; the furrows crenulated, shallow ; the 

 scutellum more shining, strongly, but not closely punctured ; 

 the apex laterally, closely striated ; the sides are stoutly keeled 

 to near the apex. Post-scutellum piceous, marked with striae. 



