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broadly dark abQve, and narrowly beneath ; the tibia is apically paler, and darker 

 near the base, but with indefinite smoky streaks dorsally and ventrally, except on 

 the apical third. Ovipositor reddish brown. 



Head just wider than deep (15 : 14). Eyes large, with minute scattered bristles, 

 occupying five-eighths of the depth of the head, or twice the genal space ; nearest 

 to one another just before a third from the anterior ocellus to the middle of the clypeal 

 edge ; at this point separated by three-fourths of a diameter, and by about two 

 diameters on the base line ; from in front the curve of the eyes is continued across 

 the swollen vertex, but ventrally the outline contracts to the somewhat narrowed 

 mouth-opening which is transversely less than the shortest distance between the 



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Fig. 1. Aneristus croconotus, sp. n. ; ?, (a) right fore wing ; 

 (b) mandible ; (c) antenna. 



eyes. Mouth-edge straight broadly at either side, the middle one-fifth occupied by a 

 low slightly salient clypeal lobe ; post-scapal furrows deep, uniting before the anterior 

 ocellus. Toruli large, oblong-oval, separated by about twice their breadth, and 

 distinctly remote from the cl}'3)eal edge, lying for one-third above the base fine of the 

 eyes. Genal keel traceable, at least just below the eye. On vertex and frons the 

 pattern is regular, somewhat coarse and raised, the cells being pentagonal or quadrate, 

 smoother between the toruli, finer towards the genae ; on the occiput and genae the 

 pattern is larger and transversely drawn out ; along the occipital margin are some 

 short spinose bristles (about 6 : 6) with many more (over 30) very minute, which form 

 an arched submarginal row, continuing down parallel with the edge till they mingle 

 with the genal bristles. About 12 bristles on the ocellar triangle. The orbital 

 bristles (18-20 on each side) are unusually distinct superiorly, but become less con- 

 spicuous below ; between the scapal furrow and the orbit are about 30 bristles, and 

 there are about as many more very minute ones in the lower frontal angle, the change 

 in the calibre of these bristles taking place suddenly nearly at the base line of the eye. 

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