262 Albany Museum Records. 



Head rugose, tliiclcly covered with silvery pnl^esceiice. 

 Thorax closely rugosely punctured. Scutellum as strongly, l)ut 

 not so closely punctured as the mesonotum ; its apical two-thirds 

 keeled down the centi-e, its apex depressed, the central keel 

 dividing the depression into two : on eitheir side are 1 or 5 stout 

 keels. Lateral plates large, triangularly produced laterally at the 

 apex ; the inner part roundly narrowed. The apical plate is large, 

 ab jut 3 times longer than wide, the basal roundly depressed, the 

 sides raised ; roundly curved outwardly, not straight, the apex 

 (oundly incised, the incision longer than it is wide at the apex ; 

 the centre is keeled, and, from the central keel, others run obliquely 

 to the sides. Abdomen closely and strongly punctured. Pj^gidial 

 area roundly narrowed gradually from the base to the apex, which is 

 slightly roundly incised; it is irregularly wrinkled; the apical 

 half covered with golden pile. Epipygium coarsely punctured 

 in the middle, more finely laterally. Metapleur^ closely longitu- 

 dinally striated. 



Comes near to 0. rujicaudis. Cam. The two may be separated 

 thus : — 



Scutellar plate small, not reaching to the middle of the 1st 

 abdominal segment, not striated, the apical incision wider 

 than long ; the apical segment rufous. 



ruficaudh, Cam. 

 Scutellar plate large, reaching to the middle of the 1st abdominal 

 segment, stoutly striated, the apical incision longer than wide 

 the apical segment black. 



striatiscutis, n. sp. 



CEROPALID^. 



Anoplius mimeticus, sp. nov. 



Length 12 mm . Male. 



March. 



This species is very similar to A. hirtiscapus, Cam., having 

 like it, the body black, the head and thorax densely covered with 

 long pale hair, the hair on the scape long and black, the abdominal 



