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IClIXKUMOMU.i:, 



-Fig. 111. — TIc)iico^2nIus craxaus, Moi-1. 



antenna;, which are shorter than llie hotly (len<xlh 10 luilHm.). 

 'Thorax short, stout, dull, and punctate; testaceous, with four 

 anteriorly coalescent stripes on the mesonotuni, most of prothorax, 



mesopleura? ;i])ically and 

 helow and hroadly at the 

 base, and the njetathorax 

 (except on either side of its 

 base above), brij^ht Ihivous ; 

 nietanotuui very sliort and 

 irrep;ularly punctate, with no 

 trace of transverse carime, 

 Init its apex iri*e<i;ular]y 

 trans-aciculate and with a 

 sliort central longitudinal 

 carina ; pleura? closely punc- 

 tate, with no stria>. Sciitel- 

 lum flavous, nitidulous, 

 deeply and isolatedly punc- 

 tate, with its sides carinate 

 to apex. Abdomen hardly 

 double the length of the 

 liead and thorax, unicolorous testaceous, not Aery slender, with 

 the basal segment apicall}^ subincrassate. Legs distinctly short 

 and somewhat stout, with the outer intermediate calcar subobsolete. 

 Wings hyaline and not am])le, with the a])ex of the front ones 

 unusually acute ; tegulte and the narrow stigma testaceous ; costa of 

 both wings and the metacarpus blackish ; radius straight and very 

 little thickened basally, with a single triangular flavescent corneous 

 mark below its extreme base ; submarginal and second recurrent 

 nervm-es of equal length ; basal nervure subcontiuuous through 

 the median. 



Length 13 millim. 

 " India. " {Capt. Boys). 

 Tgjje in the Oxford Museum. 



This species agrees with 8zcpligeti's description of H. vaiiegatns 

 (Ann. Mus. Ilungr. 10U5, p. 519) from Turkestan, except in the 

 conformation of the head, which, though not broad, cannot be 

 said to be obliquely constricted jiosteriorly ; aud he would 

 certainly have called attention to the peculiarly squat thorax, 

 \\'liich is quite distinct from that of any species of this genus with 

 which I am acquainted. The subobsolete external intermediate 

 calcaria, with the short rugose metathoras, show traces of attinity 

 with Nototrciclnjs. 



