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centrally deplanate ai)cl rugose, except at base ; gastroeoeli 

 stramineous ; four apical segments with dense white hiiir. Legs 

 tlavous, \\ ith the anterior tarsi blackish ; hind legs fulvous, with 

 the coxa^ apically above, the trochanterellus above, apex of fVmora, 

 nearly the apical half of tibise and the t\\ o apical tarsal joints, 

 black. Winr/s hyaline. 



Length 12 millim. 



Assam: Khasi Hills {Rothneij). 



Tijpe in the Oxford Museum. 



Genus HYPOCRYPTUS, Forst. 

 Hypocryptus, FiJrster, Yerli. pr. Rheiul. 1868, p. 198. 

 Genotype, Mcsoleptus testaceicorais, Brischke. 



Head transverse and posteriorly narrower tlian the eyes : 

 ch'peus impressed at apex and feebly rounded, basally not dis- 

 crete; face not apically constricted; eyes convex and prominent; 

 cheeks distinct and punctate. Antenna; slender and longer than 

 the body ; flagellum not incrassate. Mesonotnm alutaceous and 

 finely punctate ; metathorax \\ith complete areaa and circular 

 spiracles. Scutellum alutaceous and finely punctate. Abdomen 

 distinctly petiolate with the central segments not twice as broad 

 as long, though transverse ; postpetiole laterally carinate ; terebra 

 reaching apex of abdomen. Legs slender; hind femoi-a not in- 

 crassate; apical hind tarsal joint distinctly shorter than the third; 

 claws simple. Areolet entire and triangular. Body slender. 



Range. Germany, Beiigal. 



The triangular areolet and very short terebra place the follow- 

 ing species in the Tkyphoni]sm:, though the general facies proclaim 

 it to bear strong affinity M'ith the Oryptid genus Hemitelcs, and 

 tl-.e structure of the legs is almost identical with that of H. cingu- 

 liitor, Grav. I have adopted the above genus for its reception 

 M ith some hesitation, since Eorster indicates no type, and it has 

 liitherto only been used by Brischke (Schr. Nat. Ges. Dauz. 1892, 

 ]). 337) for the c? of his Mesolei^tus testaceicornis, from Germany, 

 which I do not know. 



22S. Hypocryptus cingulator, sp. n. 



2 . A small black Hemiteloid specips, wilh the legs and centre 

 of abiloiiieii red. //end black and as In-oad as thorax, posteriorly 

 broailly rounded and hardly n;irrowed behind the small and in- 

 ternally entire eyes ; occiput bonlered below ; vertex pilose, finely 

 punctate and not emarginate ; froiis and face subconvex, and 

 evenly ])unctulate throughout; clypeus more sparsely punc- 

 tate, obsoletely discrete and transversel}' impressed before 

 its subtruncate apex ; mandibles strong and rufescent, deeply 

 punctate, ^ith tlie lower tooth a little the longer. Antenme 



