PANiscrs. 347 



Genus PANISCUS, ScJu: 



Pcmisciis, Schrank, Faun. Jjoica, ii, 18U2, p. 311, note. 

 Farophelte^, Cameron, Journ. Bombay Nat. llisV. Soc. 1907,. 

 p. 111. — (Type P.Jiaculineatu^, Cam.) 



Gexotypk, p. testaceus, Grav. 



A genus ot" somewhat large, testaceous-red species, with a 

 distiuct areolet. Head transverse, short and sometimes subbuecate 

 behind the internally distinctly emarginate eyes ; ciyi)eus dis- 

 crete, subelevated, with its apex obtusely rounded and ciliate; 

 mandibles narrow, with the teeth strongly unequal, the lower 

 being much the shorter; palpi quadriarticulate, with the apical 

 joint hliforui ; ocelli large and sometimes remote from the eyes ; 

 occipital carina distinct and continuous with the genal. Anteuuse- 

 filiform and slender, \\i{\\ the scape subovate and deeply incised 

 apically. Metathorax with oblong spiracles. Abdomen com- 

 pressed or subcompressed and distinctly petiolate ; basal segmeut 

 straight, with the spiracles before its centre ; terebra very dis- 

 tinctly exserted. Legs slender, with the tarsal claws strongly 

 and elongately pectinate. Wings ample, with the areolet always- 

 entire ; basal nervure by no means continuous through the median, 

 but the lower basal \ery distinctly further from the base than the 

 upper basal. 



MaiKje. Cosmopolitan. 



This genus is very liable to be confused with Ophion or Heni- 

 cosjillus, since the coloration of all its species, and the large size o£ 

 several, produces a superlicially close resemblance to the Ophkj- 

 NIDES. The distiiict alar areolet and the position ot the petiular 

 spiracles will instantly separate them, however ; and, in spite ot 

 this resemblance, there appears to be little affinity in nature 

 between the two groups. Faiiiscus has been somewhat recently 

 divided by Thomson into several genera, of which only his- 

 Parabatus also occurs in the Indian fauna. 



Table of Species* 



1 (18) Labrum not spinously produced 



centrally. 



2 (3) Subglabroiis ; nietanntuni not 



striate ; len;,'th 8 nnllim .... Levi's, Cam., p. 348. 



3 (2) Piuictate ; metanotum di.stinetly 



striate ; lenj^tli at least 10 

 millim. 



4 (lo) Xotauli distinct, at least to centre 



of nu'sonoluni. 

 t> (G) Sciitt'llar cariii;e apically acmni- 



luite and coalesced uiier)>iecUus, Cam., p. 34'.). 



6 (o) Scutellar carin;e neither acumi- 



nate nor coalesced. 



7 (li') I'ak'r : metanotum very finely 



trans-aciculati'. 



* I'a/iiscKS lOiuVitiiK is oiiiiltfd fVom this table as intuHlcicntlv described. 



