SYZEUCTUS. 



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Fig. 58. — S>/-eiic/i(.< an>iiilipc.<. Cam. 



very slender and apically atteiuiale, witli the joints not 

 disereto ; scape and base oi' llagelliun testaceous beneatli. 



Thurax evenly, closely and not 

 very finely punctate; black, with 

 a hamate mark on either side 

 of mesonotum in front, small 

 callosities beneath all the 

 radices, and conspicuous spots 

 above the hind coxte, flavous ; 

 metathorax with no costic and 

 not strongly convex. Scutellmn 

 flavous, convex, Avith a few fine 

 punctures. Abdomen almost 

 linear and very strongly de- 

 plan ate to the apex of the third 

 segment ; the first three seg- 

 ments broadly flavous at the 

 base, the apices oi: the second 

 and third, together with the 

 compressed and clavate anus, 

 being also flavous ; basal seg- 

 ment glabrous and sublinear, 

 thrice as long as apically broad, 

 slightly curved laterally before 

 its apex, with the spiracles very 

 slightly before its centre ; terobra as long as the abdomen without 

 the basal segment, very slender and apically deflexed. Legs red, 

 anterior coxa) and trochanters flavous ; huid legs elongate, with 

 the base of their black tibia? and tarsi white ; hind femora 

 infuscate at apex, and their calcaria of unequal length. WingK 

 narrow and not large, hyaline, with a circular dot on the front 

 margin slightly before the apex conspicuously infumate : radix 

 flavous, costa and stigma piceous ; areolet petiolate, not broader 

 than hijj;h, longer than its petiole, and emitting the broadl}^ pellucid 

 recurrent nervure from near its apex. 



The (S differs slightly in having the whole face, cheeks, scape 

 beneath, prothorax and anterior margin of uiesothorax, as well as 

 appx of fourth segment, flavous ; th(! antenna' slightly longer and 

 abdomen more slender. 

 Length Ih millim. 



Assam : TChasi liills, 1000-3000 ft., iii. 07 (Pusa coll.) ; Bexgal : 

 Pusa, xii. 05 (Pusa coll.), Chapra (Mackenzie), Adra, x. 09, and 

 Monghur, ix. 09 (J. T. Jenkins — Ind. Mus.), Karmatar, x. 09, and 

 Jihogaon, ix. 05 {C. i'rt/m— Ind. Mus.), Calcutta (Ind. Mus.): 

 Madras: Mysore (Oxford Mus.), Tenmalai, Travancore 

 {Annmidale); Ceylox : Pundahioya, ii.95(A'. E. Gveen), Co\o\\\\)o, 

 xii. 04 {0. S. Wirkirar), Peradeniya, xii. 07, and Madulsima, v. US^ 

 (2\ Bainhrigge Fletcher). C^UEi^xsLAXl) {^Jiowland Turner). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



