CULTRAKIUS. 271 



facial orbits Havoiis, consti-icted above; frons and vertex glabrous 

 and nitidulou8. .-Li^cujuy^ black, piceous beneath. Thorax black, 

 with small callosities below radices flavous ; mesoiiotum^ closely 

 and evenly punctate ; metapleurnc deplaiiate, smooth and nitidulous ; 

 petiolar area strongly trans-striate, remainder irregularly and 

 coarsely reticulate ; propleura> nitidulous and irregularly striate, 

 closely rugose above and apically ; mesopleura? closely and rugoseiy 

 punctate, apically smooth and shining, with their sulci broad 

 and deeply impressed. Sadellum subrugosely punctate, laterally 

 elevated and apically shortly produced on either side ; the apex 

 flavous, perpendicularly depressed and centrally carinate ; the 

 basal impression transverse, with six stout longitudinal cariiise, 

 the lateral ones flavous. Abdomen purplish ; basal segment 

 centrally elevated and with two flavous carina?, apically broadly 

 flavous ; second segment with an apical flavous mark on eil;her 

 side; the three following segments apically flavous, the sixth 

 elevated and apically subprominent, and the seventh small and 

 obhquely constricted towards its apex. Legs black, with white 

 pilosity ; apical half of front femora, the tibia?, and the tarsi pale 

 red ; the front calcaria pale red, the intermediate white, and the 

 hind ones black. Winns violaceo-infumate, with the base :ind 

 apex of their tegula? broadly flavous. 



Length 12h millim. 



SlKKiM: DarjiUng. 



Cameron tells us (loc. cit.) that the antenna^ of the only 

 specimen he had seen were broken off before their centre. 



191. Cultrarius piirpiireotinctus, 0am. 



Cu/frarii/s piirpitreofiiicttis, Cameron, Ann. Nat. Hist, xix, 1907, 

 p. 17(5 (c?). 



J . A black species, the head with flavous markings and the 

 wiutfs apically infumate. Head with somewhat strong but not 

 ver>^ close punctatiou, that of the clypeus and apex of face 

 distinctly stronger and closer ; facial carinse laterally and more 

 narrowly above, and lower frontal orbits flavous : occiput glabrous 

 and with dense white hairs. Anteiuue with the flagellum piceous, 

 and the scape flavous, beneath. Thorax : pro- and meso-thorax 

 strono-ly and closely punctate, with their pleurje more coarsely so ; 

 mesopleural sulci broad and dee|)ly impressed ; areola shngreeTied 

 and hexagonal, distinctly longer than basally broad, with its apical 

 half constricted and the truncate apex but half the width of the 

 base, whence a central carina extends longitudinally throughout 

 its disc ; lateral area> broader than long, apically broadly rounded 

 and substriate, with a few large central punctures; petiolar area 

 closely and rugoseiy punctate ; metapleurte strongly and coarsely 

 punctate. ScuteUum very strongly and evenly punctate, its basal 

 impression broad, deep, and with Ave carime ; its apical declivity 

 a])ically aciculate, lateral teeth large and triangular ; postscutelluni 

 with dense long white hairs. Abdomen closely and densely punc- 



