188 l( HNKlMONJD.i;. 



128. Hemipimpla testacea, ('ayn. 



En/throplmjyla testacea, Cameron, Tijds. luit. l!)()7, p. 98 (2)- 



S $ . An entirely testaceous species, with the antenntc, terehra 

 and apices of the winns alone iut'uscate ; postpetiole dull and 

 deeply ])unctate. lleail ilavidous, transverse and very strongly 

 constricted behind the ])roniiiient and l)ro\\ nish eyes ; occiput 

 ghibrous and nitidulous, iinely bordered ])os1eriorly, with a few 

 scattered punctures ; ocelli inl uscate a)ul elevated npon a common 

 plateau; frons glabrous, witli the scrobes large and extending 

 nearly to the ocelli ; face deplauate, with a few scattei'ed punc- 

 tures and hairs, centrally subelevated longitudinally and distinctly 

 discrete from the deplauate and apically emarginate cly])eus ; 

 mandibles not Aery stout, with the infuscate teeth, of which the 

 upper is the longer, apically obtuse ; cheeks somewhat shorter 

 than the basal breadth of the mandibles; eyes only slightly 

 <3margina1e next the scrobes. Antcnnai black, somewhat shorter 

 than the body and apically attenuate; of $ with scape beneath, 

 of c? with the whole scape and underside of the flagellum, 

 testaceous ; joints cylindrical and not elongate. Thorax glabrous, 

 strongly nitidulous, with sparse flavous pubescence on the meta- 

 thorax ; notanli anteriorly distinct ; metathoracic areio entirely 

 wanting, but with distinct sparse and line punctation ; spiracles 

 small, oval and facing towards apex. tScntellion glabrous and not 

 convex, with a few erect flavidous hairs. Abdomen fusiform- 

 cylindrical and broadest centrally, entirely testaceous or riifescent, 

 strongly punctate throughont, with the apical angles of the seg- 

 ments prominent ; basal subquadrate or in c? a little longer than 

 apically broad, laterally canaliculate on either side and in S 

 strongly carinate; the four or five following segments deeply 

 incised transversely at their apical third, the incision becoming 

 laterally confluent with another which rises obliquel}' from the 

 depressed base ; venter of c? alone basally plicate, its valvulte 

 small, pilose, blackish and hardly exserted ; terebra black, slightly 

 longer than the abdomen, with the valvuhe slender and pilose. 

 Lecjs short and stout, testaceous, with the stout, basally strongly 

 lobate claws, which in $ hardly extend beyond tlie pnlvilli, alone 

 blackish ; front femora and tibite simple, their calcaria curved. 

 Winrfs not broad, strongly Havescent, with the external margin 

 broadly, or in $ the apical third, infnmate ; radix, tegular and 

 stigma testaceous, the costa concolorous, becoming blackish at its 

 apex ; radius in (S curved above the somewhat oblique areolet, 

 which emits the recurrent nervure from near its ajiex ; lower 

 wings with first recurrent subopposite and emitting the nervellus 

 distinctl)'- below its centre ; costa in J narrowly black at emission 

 of radial nervure. 



Length 12-17 millim. 



SiKKiM, iv-vi. 1900 {Binyham — Brit. Mus.) ; Assam : Marg- 

 ]ierita (lud. jMus.) ; Uurma : Mandalay, ix. 98 {Bhujham — Brit. 

 31 us.). 



