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8. Hemigaster carinifrons, Cam. 



Hetnigaster cannif runs, Cumevon* Manch. Mem. 1809. p. I'Ol (c? $). 



IJead red, with only tlie apices of the basaliy closely punctate 

 and laterally carinate mandibles black ; face and clypeus not sepa- 

 rated, closely punctate and densely white-pilose, the latter basully 



foveate on either of its oblique 

 sides and apically transverse ; 

 former with the central carina 

 impi'essed at base and apex ; 

 vertex closely punctate, frons 

 glabrous and excavate, with a 

 central longitudinal acute carina, 

 obliquely inflexed and having on 

 either side another short basal 

 carina ; upper orbits elevated 

 and acutely carinate ; occiput 

 bordered. Antennce as long as 

 the body, black, with the two 

 basal and base of the third joints 

 -pj Q red, and the seventh to eleventh 



Hemigaster cariirifrovK, Cam. clear white. Thorax red, with 



the propleurte closely punctate, 

 stoutly and obliquely strigose below; uiesothorax closely punc- 

 tate, with the notauli narrow but distinct and the sternauli deeply 

 impressed, curved and crenulate ; mesopleurae obscurely strigose 

 above, with a central, crenulate sulcus, which is broadly black on 

 either side; metanotura centrally glabrous, laterally closely ])unc- 

 tate, with its external and apical parts strigose ; arete entirely 

 demai-cated and clearly defined ; areola obliquely declivous basaliy, 

 carinate throughout and obliquely constricted apically, whence 

 two apically subdivergent carinas extend to the petiole ; external 

 basal areae entire and broader than long ; dentiparal areve of about 

 the same size and centrally emarginate externally ; petiolar area 

 twice as long as broad; spiracular arete large, deeply and obliquely 

 impressed basaliy, l)roader than long and separated from the ante- 

 rior by a stout carina ; apophyses large, foliaceous and transverse; 

 spiracles linear, oblique, narrow and rounded at both extremities; 

 metapleuroe shagreened. Smtellum elevated, longer than broad, 

 closely punctate and infuscate-pilose, apically constricted, with its 

 sides and apex stoutly carinate ; postscutellum carinate laterally, 

 apically explanate and bicarinate vertically. Abdomen red and, 

 except the basal segment, closely punctate, with short and dense 

 white pubescence ; first segment basaliy smooth and constricted, 

 apically closely punctate, dilated and curved, laterally and 

 beneath and on the postpetiole bicarinate ; three basal segments 

 large and subequal in length, remainder much shorter and decreas- 

 ing in length towards the anus. Legs subelongate ; anterior 

 testaceous, with the coxae broadly at the base above, and their 



