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twice the length of the tibicc. Areolet small, square, 

 complete ; receiving the recurrent nervure at the apex ; 

 the transverse median nervure almost interstitial ; the 

 third discoidal cellule is much narrowed at the base ; the 

 cubital nervure curved. 



This genus does not fit well into any of the tribes into 

 which Thomson divides the Cryptidce, but comes nearest 

 the Cryptina, from which it differs in the median segment 

 having no keels but being strongly transversely striated all 

 over. It has the small areolet of Mesostemis and, like it, 

 receives the recurrent nervure in the apex ; the transverse 

 basal nervure is straight, oblique, and is almost parallel 

 with the transverse basal for the most part : the costa is 

 narrow, elongate ; the parapsidal furrows are obsolete ; 

 but the middle of the mesonotum is raised. The antennae 

 are stouter, especially towards the apex, than in Cryptits 

 or Mesostemis. 



Chlorocryptus METALLICUS, Sp. nov. 



Coernleus; iiigro-niactdatus; anteimis nigrts, medio 

 aibo-aiiniilato, apice fusca ; a/is liyalinis, nervis stigviateqiie 

 fuscis. 5 • 



Long. 12 ; terebra 4 mm. 



The scape of the antenna; dark metallic green, the 

 five basal joints of the flagellum black ; the eighth to 

 thirteenth joints for the greater part white ; the apical 

 brownish. The face and base of the clypeus closely 

 punctured, the apex of the clypeus smooth and shining, 

 impunctate and of a lighter green. Mandibles black, their 

 middle dark piceous, the palpi dark fuscous, the second 

 joint for the greater part whitish. Mesonotum black, 

 green in the middle ; the sides of the middle lobe with 

 some stout transverse keels ; the middle with large, deep, 

 clearly separated punctures ; the apex irregularly reticu- 



