TltlCLISTUS. 303 



nervure, its outer iiervure pellucid and continuous with the 

 second recurrent. 



Leuiitk 7 milliiu. 



i3ENGAL {E. H. AitJcen).f 



Tt/pe in tlie Oxford Museum. 



I have seen only the type. 



217. Triclistus curvicarinatus, Cam. 



^■rocjufs curvMudu,, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 iJU_, p. 4.Ji ( ^ ). 



M ^J ,^ ''^f '' """' ',^l"i"S^ ')'^'*'^'' ''''^'^' "^ fl'-^^'ous markinffs. 

 Mead broadly rounded behind the internallv distinctly eniar^inate 

 eyes; occiput subvertical and bordered' below ; frons finelv 

 ])unctulate, strongly carinate centrally ; face convex, coarsely and 

 sparsely punctate, and not discrete from the apically truncate 

 clypeus ; mandibles strong and apically rufesceut ; ligula fulvous 

 pa pi flavous. Autennc, iiliform, much shorter than the bodv and 

 With white hairs, fulvous throughout, with the scape and base of 

 flagellum hardly paler beneath. Thora.v stout and sli<.htlv 

 broader than the head ; mesonotum shining and distinctlv 

 though not very close y, punctate and pilose ; notauli distinct 

 and punctiform ; metathorax subglabrous and nitidulous with all 

 the arece (except the basal area) well-defined; areola nearly twice 

 as long as centrally broad, subhexagonal, emitting costul.4 from 

 Its centre ; peliolar area sliort, entire and basally strono- Scutellnm. 

 punctate and nnmaculate. Abdomen nearly' parallel-sided im- 

 n.aculate black hnely punctulate and pilose throughout- basal 

 segment laterally subimmarginate, and discally bicarniate onlv'to 

 Its centre ; venter, pygidium and the subcuncealed terebra piceous 

 Leas flavesc-ent, with only the hind tarsi and the base of \hp 

 coxae sub.nfuscate; tibiae, and apices of the intumescent front 

 femora, stra.nineous ; intermediate calcaria nearly equal in length 

 the hind ones very unequal, with the outer calcar anic^U; 

 obliquely truncate and somewhat shorter than the apical width 

 of rheir tibia.. W^nr,s hyaline and not broad ; radix and te4 e 



lavons, st,gma piceous; upper basal by no means continuon 

 with the lower basal nervure; areolet externally continuous w"tl 

 t be second recurrent nervure, minute, obliquely quadrate in 

 elongately pet.olate, with its outer nervure, like the^vlolTuppe 



