SYZErCTUS. 



2:55 



black, witli the mcsopleurDe simiately suleato and subgiabroiis 

 centrally ; the prosternuin, inesostemum basally below, a broad 

 hamate" mark ou either side of front of niesonotum and parallel 



with its disc, callosities 

 before and beneath radices^ 

 and a large irregular n)ark 

 on nietapleura\ stramineous; 

 metanotinn wi1 h no costa^ but 

 laterally longitudinally sul- 

 cate above the pale mark 

 and below the elongate and 

 somewliat large spirac-les. 

 Abdomen nitiduloiis aiul 

 very strongly compressed 

 throughout ; black, -with 

 apices of all the segments, 

 and base of the first three 

 broadly, flavous ; basal seg- 

 ment thrice as long as apic- 

 allv broad and sublinear, 

 with the spiracles but slightly 

 before the centre, and thence 

 parallel-sided, a little broader and subcanaliculate to apex; 

 terebra straight, slender and slightly longer than abdomen. Z^r/.s- 

 flavescent, with hind femora fulvous ; hind legs with apical halt 

 of coxa>, apices and extreme base of femora and tibia?, qmte black , 

 posterior ouvchii infuscate ; hind calcaria uneciual, front ones 

 short and sinuate. Wings entirely hyaline, ample but not broad, 

 with radix and tegultc stramineous, costa and stigma piceous; 

 areolet subpetiolate, higher than broad, and emitting the uui- 

 fenestrate recurrent nervure from hardly before its apex; first 

 recurrent of hind wings distinctly postfurcal, emitting the curved 

 uervellus from hardly below its centre. 

 Length 12 millim. 



SiKKiM, iv.-vi. 1900 (Col. Bingham). 

 Type in the Jiritish Museum. 



The stronglv compressed abdomen gives this species a very 

 striking superficial resemblance to the Xorid genus Tropisies, bur 

 the conformation of the head, areolet and elongate legs is very 

 distinct. 



Described from two females. 



Fig. 57. — Syzeuctus compressiis, Mori. 



IGG. Syzeuctus claripeimis, Cam. 



Lissonota f/«>v;;e??5HS, Camevou,* Journ. Bonibay Nat, I list. Soc. 

 xiv, 190i>, p. 427 (d). 



S. A bright flavous species, broadly marked discally with 

 black; the wings entirely hyaline and the abdominal spiracles 



