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at the apex ; the ventral plate is longer than the upper one and 

 gradually narrows to an acute point. 



Hab. India. (Coll. J. S. Baly, Esq.) 



32. CCELIOXYS DUCALIS, U. S. 



Female. Length 11 lines. — Black, the head clothed with a 

 dense short bright fulvous pubescence, that on the cheeks is 

 fuscous ; the thorax above rugose, and having a slightly elevated 

 carina passing from the collar to the middle of the scutellum, on 

 each side of which is a bent tooth ; the wings dark fuscous, 

 having a splendid purjile and coppery reflection, the posterior 

 wing hyaline towards the base. The abdomen is strongly punc- 

 tm'ed, most sparingly so on the disk ; the apical segment finely 

 punctured. 



Hab. India? (Coll. W. W. L. Walcott, Esq.) 



33. CCELIOXYS APICATA. 



Female. Length 5^6 lines. — Black, head and thorax strongly 

 but not coarsely punctured, the face clothed with short white 

 pubescence ; that on the cheeks, vertex, collar, sides of the 

 thorax, and metathorax, is also white; the wings subhyaline, 

 their apex clouded, the scutellum rounded behind and subden- 

 tate on each side. Abdomen shining, towards the base rather 

 distantly punctured, more finely and closely so towards the 

 apex ; the superior plate of the apical segment broad and 

 rounded at the apex, slightly notched at the sides, carinated 

 down the centre and terminating in a slender acute spine ; the 

 inferior plate a little longer than the upper one, very broad and 

 rounded at the apex. 



Hab. Northern India. (Coll. J. S. Baly, Esq.) 



34. CCELIOXYS CAPITATA. B.M. 



Female. Length 3 lines. — Head very large, and as well as 

 the thorax, coarsely punctured ; the face and cheeks covered 

 with snow-white pubescence, antennae beneath rufo-testaceous, 

 tips of the mandibles ferruginous. Thorax, two spots on the 

 prothorax, one over the tegular and two on the basal margin of 

 the scutellum of white scales; the thorax on the sides and beneath, 

 the femora beneath, and tibiic and tarsi above, also covered 

 with white scales, the legs ferruginous; the wings fusco-hy aline, 

 darkest towards their apical margins, the nervures fusco-ferrugi- 

 nous; the scutellum rounded behind and armed on each side 

 with a short stout tooth. Abdomen shining, the punctures di- 

 stinct but scattered, most dense at the base ; all the segments 



