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thickly spinose, claws of the tarsi simple ; abdomen about as long as 

 the head and thorax united, the posterior margin of the 1st segment 

 constricted, pygidial area smooth, shining, convex. Head, thorax and 

 abdomen dark yellowish-brown, a small crescentic spot above the base 

 of each antenna, an arched stripe across the vertex over the region 

 of the ocelli ; the mesonotum, irregular shadings on the sides of the 

 thorax, the sutures between the scutellum, post-scutellum and median 

 segment and the short longitudinal groove on the last black, the 

 mesonotum with two parallel, longitudinal, short, ferruginous-red 

 stripes; wings hyaline, tegulse and uervures pale testaceous. 

 9. Length 11. Exp. 18 mm. 

 Shaikh Othman (Col. Yerhury). 



54. Trachypus nursei, u. sp., pi. A, f. 3. 

 9 . Head finely punctured, shining, about as broad as the thorax, cly- 

 peus broad, slightly convex, very slightly arched anteriorly, eyes strong- 

 ly converging towards the vertex, the inner orbits emarginate, front 

 broad, with a short shallov/ vertical furrow below the anterior ocellus, 

 cheeks narrow, little developed. Thorax shining, the mesonotum 

 coarsely punctured, the scutellum, post-scutellum and median segment 

 above smooth, shining, with a few scattered punctures, the sutures bet- 

 ween the mesonotum, scutellum, post-scutellum and median segment 

 deep, well marked and finely punctured, as is a medial, short, shallow 

 longitudinal furrow on the median segment above, the tibiae and 

 tarsi of the leg spinose, the claws simple. Abdomen shining, finely 

 punctured, about as long as the head and thorax united, the base of 

 the 1st segment attenuated, its posterior margin deeply constrictedj 

 pygidial area convex, smooth and shining. Black, the basal two-thirds 

 of the mandibles, the scape and basal two joints of the flagellom of the 

 antennae in front, an oval transverse spot on the front, two contiguous 

 spots on the vertex behind the ocelli, a broad line on the cheeks, the 

 posterior half of the pronotum, the tubercles, two spots behind them on 

 the mesopleurge, the scutellum and post-scutellum, a round spot on each 

 side at the posterior angles of the median segment, the apical half of the 

 anterior tibiaj, a transverse band on the upper side of the 1st abdominal 

 segment, and the whole of the second segment bright yellow, the apex 

 of the mandibles ferruginous, the clypeus, a triangular spot along the 

 inner orbits, the anterior tarsi, the intermediate and posterior tibiae and 



