DIPL ATI'S. 47 



Diplatys gerstajckeri, var. calidasa, Burr, (04) pp. 279 & 282, (OG) 



p. 387, (07=) p. 508. 

 Cylindrogaster rufesceiis, Burr {nee Kirhy)^ (00^) p. 48. 



Small and slender ; general colour reddish tawny shading to 

 yellow with a few reddish bristles. Antennae with 15 segments, 

 typical, testaceous. Head : in the S not very tumid between the 

 eyes, this part passing gradually into the narrowly depressed 

 occiput, owing to the transverse suture being obsolete ; eyes 

 large, the postocular keels shorter than the eyes, a sharp hinder 

 border somewhat incrassate, the median suture short but distinct, 

 cutting the incrassate margin ; sides of the head converging 

 posteriorly : in the $ the eyes smaller and postocular keels rela- 

 tively a trifle longer and less sharp ; the head is somewhat 

 broader and less tumid but otherwise it resembles the J , only 

 the characters are weaker, sometimes nearly obsolete ; the colour is 

 yellowish testaceous, sometimes shaded with darker. Pronotum of 

 c5"as broad as long, subquadrate, posterior margin gently I'ounded ; 

 very slightly narrower posteriorly than anteriorly ; prozona ample, 

 tumid, metazona and sides flat ; yellowish or reddish testaceous ; 

 in the 5 similar, but somewhat broader. Scutellum minute. 

 Elytra reddish to golden yellow, sometimes shaded \^'ith fuscous ; 

 ample, long and broad, obliquely convex posteriorly, with a few 

 bristles on the shoulders. AViugs long, of the same colour as 

 the elytra. Legs yellow, very slender; posterior femora with 

 cariuulas almost obsolete. Abdomen reddish, in the (S slender and 

 cylindrical, slightly broadening posteriorly ; in the $ somewhat 

 depressed, a little broader apically. Last dorsal segment ample, 

 tumid and smooth, quadrate in the S , and slightly broader than 

 the abdomen ; in the § narrower, sloping and angulate posteriorly. 

 Penultimate ventral segment in the 6 ample, as broad as long, 

 the posterior margin deeply triangularly emarginate, tlie apex of 

 the emargination produced posteriorly into a short sharp equilateral 

 triangular lobe, so that the outline of the posterior margin forms 

 a W ; in the $ longer and narrower, angustate posteriorly. 

 Porceps of S with the branches short, depressed, narrow, tapering 

 and quite straight, slightly hooked at the apex itself ; in the $ 

 similar, but shorter and more slender. 



c? 2 



Length of body 7-4-14-75 mm. 7*5-8 mm. 



„ forceps 1-1-5 ,, 1-1-5 „ 



Burma : Karen-ni, Keba District, 3000-3700 ft.. May to Dec. 

 (Genoa Miis.) ; Ceylon: Punduluoya (Brit. Mus., coU. Burr), 

 Maskeliya (coll. Burr). 



Ti/pe in the Berlin Museum. 



Although a female of one of Mr. Green's original specimens of 

 Dyscritina longisetosa has the head with the male characters almost 

 obsolete, whereas another female from Maskeliya has them fairly 



