nr;.Nicosi>iLL's. 



3S7 



steriuini and a broad uie.soiiolal stripe deep black; iiiesouotiim 

 nitidulou-i, witli pale pubescence ; luetauot uiii basallv glabrous, 

 irregularlj' and transversely striate laterally, and centrally strongly 

 reticulate, its apical slope witli a few strong and irregularly curved 

 striic ; propleune glabrous, indistinctly and obliquely striate below, 

 mesopleunc closely and iinely punctate, inetapleura) finely rugulose 

 with a few strong oblique stride above. SculeUam laterally 

 carinate on its basal halt. Abdomen pale testaceous, with the 

 second segment and apex of first rufescent, the third and following 

 infuscate. Zc/s concolorous with the thorax; femora rufescent. 

 Wiiif/s hyaline, with nervures and stigma black ; glabrous area 

 with two corneous marks, the basal pyrifurin, the two marks 

 connected by a corneous line, the apical sinall and quadrate. 



Length 17-26 millim. 



^LvDRAS : Ivalattu|)uzlia, Travancore, xi. 08 (N. Annandale) : 

 CiiYLOS: Favademy A (E. E. Green, tvpe; O.S. Wickvjar), KhmAy, 

 vi. 09 {E. E. Green), 3Iaskeliya, iii. 09 {T. B. Fletcher). 



283. Henicospilus hariolus, Mori. 



Henicospilus hariolus, Morley,* Revis. Icbn. Brit. Mas. 191:?, p. -14 ^ 

 ( d 2 ) [there erroneously attributed to Camerou]. 



S 2- A profusely black-marked ochreous species, //ear? whitish 

 stramineous and strongly constricted posteriorly ; face and clypeus 

 strongly nitidulous and glabrous, with the former alone closely 

 and iinely punctate, the latter apically truncate and not basally 

 separated, with the lateral impressions very deep ; labrain normally 

 exserted; mandibles testaceous and vertical, with the teeth black, 

 Antennoi longer than the body (24 millim.) and entirely testacaous 

 red. Thora.v somewhat slender and testaceous, with three broad 

 and narrowly separated mesonotal vittre, post-tegular dots, meso- 



sternum, whole prothorax 

 (except its disc), a broad 

 central metanotal fascia, and 

 spots above tlie hind coxic, 

 black ; mesonotum somewhat 

 dull and pilose ; raetanotum 

 dull and rugulose throughout, 

 with the central and prebasal 

 transverse carina; strong, its 

 apical half irregularly and 

 somewhat deeply striate, with 

 two short parallel discal 

 carinas in the centre of it.< 

 base ; all the pleura? distinctly 

 strigose and the mesosternum 

 finely punctate ; spiracles 

 IQO.-Henico>^pllus hariolus, Mori. transverse, linear. Sci'telbnn 



scabrous and testaceous, with 

 strong and subparallel lateral carina; to near h< apex; post- 



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