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end of the segment, as in Cryptus, not from its apex and 

 turned upwards as in Ceratocrypins and Piinpla. Further 

 differences are to be found in its smooth, not striated, 

 median segment, and in the presence of a stout spine on 

 the sides of the mesosternum. 



Head dilated below the antenna,^ the clypeus separated 

 from the face by a narrow suture. Mandibles with one 

 long, sharp, apical tooth. Occiput not margined. Palpi 

 long, the joints not dilated. Mesonotum trilobate ; meta- 

 thorax large, smooth, nearly as long as the mesothorax ; 

 has a gradually rounded slope to the apex, and has one 

 transverse keel ; the spiracles are twice longer than broad, 

 rounded at base and apex. Abdomen long and narrow, 

 nearly twice the length of the head and thorax united ; 

 petiole long, narrow, not much dilated towards the apex ; 

 the spiracles are small, round, and situated near the 

 middle ; the gastrocoeli are elongate, narrow. Legs long 

 and slender, the fore tarsi are more than twice the length 

 of the tibiae, and are incised at the base. Areolet minute, 

 the outer nervure faint ; the recurrent nervure is bullated 

 in the middle, and is received shortly beyond the middle 

 of the areolet. 



Leptocryptus LONGIVENTRIS, Sp. nov. 



Niger ; late albo-viaculatus ; pedibus fulvis, apice 

 dimidio apicali tibiaruni posticarum nigro ; tarsis posticis 

 albis, basi nigro. ? . 



Long. 9 ; terebra 1 mm. 



Antennae black ; the scape rufous beneath ; the fla- 

 gellum to the middle thickly covered with short, black 

 hair ; the apical part broken off. Head yellowish-white ; 

 the middle of the front and vertex and the occiput, 

 except at the orbits, black. Face smooth, shining and 



