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underside of scape, the tegulse and the very short legs, flavescent. 

 Head hardly transverse and somewhat broadly rounded behind the 

 internally slightly emarginate eyes ; occiput broadly emarginate 

 and not bordered ; vertex strongly nitidulous, somevrliat broad, 

 obsoleteh' and very sparsely punctate; scrobes distinct: face 

 evenly protuberant throughout, shining and distinctly punctate, 

 with sparse grey pilosity ; mandibles and the concave clypeus 

 piceous. Antennce tiliforin and somewhat shorter than half the 

 body; of S rufo-ferruginous throughout, of $ black or nigrescent, 

 witii the three or four apical joints entirely rufesceiit and, in 

 both sexes, the scape tlavous beneath, 'Thorax immaculate, dis- 

 cally deplanate and cylindrical, with the mesouotum obsoletely 

 punctate and nitidulous, and the metanotum strongly punctate 

 and closely white-pilose; area? of metathorax entirely wanting, 

 its apex glabrous, with deeply impressed lateral fovese ; lateral 

 ■carinie distinct and the spiracles subcircular. Scutellum deplanate, 

 immaculate and somewhat strongly but not closely punctate. 

 Ahdomen strongly elongate, linear, exactly thrice the length of 

 the head and thorax, all tiie segments dull and closely punctate 

 and pilose, with their apices laterally constricted and apically 

 nitidulous ; basal segment double the length of its apical bi-eadth, 

 gradually a little dilati^d throughout and, in $ , :i little longer 

 than the short and subquadrate sixth ; venter ochraceous and 

 indetiuitely plicate ; terebra very slightly longer (18 millim,) than 

 the abdomen (10 miUim.), with the valvula3 slender, black and 

 ])ilose, Leris peculiarly short and somewhat stout ; the anterior 

 testaceous, with the coxae and trochanters paler; the hind ones 

 fulvous, with apices of tibife and the claws infuscate ; the latter 

 basally lobate in the $ . Wings narrow and hyaline, ^ith the 

 stigma blackish ; areolet sessile and broadly triangular ; basal 

 nervure continuous through the median ; uervellus distinctly a 

 little postfurcal and intercepted above its centre. 



Length, J 17, 2 -0 iniHim- 



Burma : Bhamo, vii. 86, and Karen Hills, 3000-3700 ft. 

 {L. Fea). 



Types in the Genoa Musenm, 



The strongly elongate abdomen and short legs are distinctive of 

 this species. 



The foregoing description is drawn from a single pair. 



123. Ephialtes crassiis, sp. u. 



2 . A black species, with pale stigma and very distinct tubercles. 

 Jlead black, with the palpi testaceous and the clypeus immaculate ; 

 vertex broad and strongly nitidulous, with a few tine and scattercil 

 punctures ; occiput broad, bordered and hardly emarginate ; face 

 jiitidulous and convex, with strong and close punctures ; cly])eus 

 semicircularly impressed centrally, and not produced on either 

 side ; mandibles stout. AnUnnce liliform and obsoletely pilose 



