238 iciix Eu.^roxiD.i:. 



Tliis species is, 1 consider, a true JSijzeuctus, in spite of its 

 minute and reniform metathoracic spiracles, by means of Mhich 

 it may at once be recognised. I do not know I'oi'ster's genus 

 Aj>h(tnodo)K ^\hicb appears to ditfer from CniptopimjjJa, syuo- 

 uymised with it by Dalla Torre, in the absence of the transverse 

 melanotal apical carina. Tlie apicaliy infumate wings and wliite- 

 iiiarked legs are very distinctive. The markings are peculiarly 

 constant. 



Xo doubt can remain that this is a counnou and widely dis- 

 tributed species tbrougbout India, from Assam to Ceylon, 

 though Ave at present know nothing of its economy, which is 

 undoubtedly related to the Lepidoptera ; and further, I have seen 

 several examples, whicli I am unable to differentiate, in the col- 

 lection formed by Mr. K. Turner in (Queensland, where it is 

 iipparently not imcommon. It was first sent from Ceylon to tbe 

 Britisli Museum by Dr. Tlnvaites about 18G7. 



168. Syzeuctus zanthorius, Cam. 



Lissonota zantJioria, Cameron,* Jouru. liombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 xiv, pt. iii, p. 4l^(3 ( cj' )• 



(S . A bright flavous species, with black markings, unicolorous 

 red antennae and apicallj^ infumate wings. Head not vertically 

 declivous behind the internally parallel eyes, fulvescent-flavous, 

 with only the bordered occiput centrally below, and the space 

 between the flavous ocelli, black ; vertex higher tlian eyes, glabrous 

 and impressed on either side of the ocelli ; frons distinctly and 

 evenly punctate, with a minute and obsolete excrescence between 

 the reticulate and small scrobes ; face and clypeus distinctly and 

 evenly punctate throughout, snbdiscrete, with tbe latter a little 

 convex and a])ically rounded ; mandibles stout, with the upper of 

 the nigrescent teetli a little the longer ; cheeks not short. 

 Anfeniicc fulvous throughout and distinctly a little compresso- 

 dilated beyond the centre ; the joints cylindrical and neither 

 elongate nor discrete. Thorax distinctly and not very finely 

 punctate throughout, clear flavous, with a small black mark in 

 centre of front of mesonotum, another on its disc, and lateral 

 vittfe basally coalescing at the scutellar fovea, clots above radices 

 and a small oblique fascia on either side of the wanting areola, 

 black ; metathorax with no costge and the lateral carinas entirely 

 wanting, spiracles elongate transverse and ]iot large. Scutellutii 

 tlavous, nitidulous, subconvex, deeply and not very closely punc- 

 tate. Ahdomen parallel-sided, distinctly punctate, flavous, with 

 all the segments centrally black ; anus pilose and fulvescent, 

 with the valvula3 not exserted ; basal segment smoother, not 

 canaliculate nor constricted basally, with spiracles obsolete at 

 its basal third. Leys flavous and slender ; tarsal claws subuuitic ; 

 hind femora and tibia) pale fulvous, their tarsi darker, tro- 

 chanters basally infuscate, and the pale calcaria strongly unequal. 

 Wings clear hyaline, Avith the apices alone infumate ; radix and 



