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lCll>KU^JO>lD.K. 



This handsome species is extremely closely allied to E. manifes- 

 tator, L., but the punctation of the head is liner, the clypeus red 

 and not apically produced, the metauotum is more nitidulous and 

 punctate, with but obsolete carinas, tlie terebra is longer, and the 

 nervellus intercepts at a distinctly lower point, 



A male, found by W. Doherty in Tenasserim and now in the 

 Calcutta Museum, so exactly coincides with the type in every way 

 that, in spite of the very different locality, I have no hesitation in 

 associating them ; the size of the sexes is, as 1 have already 

 mentioned, usually disproportionate in this genus, as is proved by 

 four males bred by Stebbing from some species of CJu-)/sobotkn(s in 

 deodar at Simla. 



125. Ephialtes tinctipennis, Cam. 



Ephiahes tinctipennis, Cameron,* Maucb. Mem. 1899, p. lol {^). 



(S . An entirely black species, with only the anterior legs flavous. 

 Head deep black, with the frons and vertex smooth, shining 

 and sparsely infuscate-pilose ; orbits impressed and acutely 

 margined ; face strongly and uniformly punctate and, like the 

 clypeus, densely and elongately infuscate-pilose ; the latter smooth, 



centrally semicircularly im- 

 pressed and apically testa- 

 ceous ; mandibles black, palpi 

 testaceous. Antennce deep 

 black; scape somewhat strong- 

 ly ])unctate, with elongate pale 

 aud dense pilosity; llagellum 

 entirely glabrous. Thora.v 

 glabrous aud nitidulous, with 

 the pro- and meso-pleura> 

 basally crenulate, and the 

 raesosternum finely punctate 

 and basally carinate ; meta- 

 uotum strongly and uniformly 

 punctate, becoming laterally 

 substrigose ; petiolar area 

 wanting, semicircular and gla- 

 brous ; nietapleurse obsoletely 

 punctate, with a carina above 

 and belo^\■. Scutellum and 

 postscutellum immaculate ; the former sparsely aud shallowly 

 punctate, with elongate pilosity ; the latter minutely punctate aud 

 nitidulous. Abdomen entirely black, closely and strongly punc- 

 tate ; first segment with its basal fovea glabrous and its apex more 

 strongly punctate than the second segment. Legs fulvous ; the 

 hind ones black, with the exceptiou of the rufescent apices of the 

 trochanters and the extreme base of the femora ; hind calcaria 

 pale testaceous. Wlnrjs hyahne and slightly fulvescent ; stigma 



Fie. 43. — Epldalics tinctipcnnU, Cam. 



