XOTOXRACHTS. 4Q1 



testaceous, and the basal flagellar joint distinctly longer than the 

 second. Thorax with mesonotuni strongly and irregularly rugose 

 closelj and strongly punctate laterally; metanotum smooth, with 

 a network o± very strong carina% more distinct on the basal than 

 ou tbe apical slope ; the base bordered by a keel and with a small 

 area, longer than broad and of equal \vidth in the centre ; pro- 

 pleurae gkabrons and apically stoutly striate; mesopleurce smooth 

 XMth rugulose carina) and above strongly, subobliquely striate: 

 nietapleur.-e rugulose and irregularly reticulate. ScxUellum more 

 broadly and irregularly reticulate than mesonotum, and laterally 

 stoiitly carinate ; its basal fovea large, broad and deeply impressed. 

 -^/>(/o;»^;. glabrous and nitidulous, Avith the two basal segments as 

 long as the head and thorax, the first shorter than second and 

 apically dilated; terebra as long as second segment. Leas ■ 

 anterior pan- lufuscate testaceous ; the hind ones black, with their 

 tarsi longer than the tibi«, slender and very finelv spinulose, 

 their cla\vs minute ; calcaria normal and of equal len^^th. Winqs 

 hvaline, with their apices subinfumate, and the nljrvures and 

 stigma black; basal nervnre continuous through the median- 

 internal cubital nervure roundly curved; third discoidal cell 

 basally more than half its apical breadth; uervellus not 

 intercepted. 



Length 7-9 millim. 



Ceylon : Peradeniya, vi., vii. and ix. 09, ii. 10 {E. E. Green). 

 In my copy of Cameron's paper, the name reticulatus is erased 

 and 'vartstriatus" substituted in MS. Cameron owns to 

 Ignorance of the genus NotofracJujs, but considers the present 

 species to agree well with the description of authors. His 

 position of It is so correct that at first I \vas puzzled to separate 

 It iTom ^ fohator, hnt the face is subglabrous, the metanotum 

 and mesopleurae strongly and regularly reticulate, with the inter- 

 stices glabrous and nitidulous, and the latter are strongly and 

 regularly strigose above, the tarsi are longer than the tibi^, the 

 orbits immaculate, and all red coloration is wanting. 



Tribe AXOMALIDES. 



This tribe is one of the most distinctive among the IcH^-Eu- 

 ^omvjE, and few of its members can be mistaken for those of aiiy 

 other section. Exceptions occur, however, as in most of our artf- 

 hcial divisions ; thus the XoTOXRACHinES are very similar in their 

 abdominal conformation and scabrous sculpture, though at once 

 known by the unicalcarate intermediate tibia); my new «renus 

 Metanomuhu is aberrant wherever placed, and connects the pi^sent 

 tribe with the Campoplegides, by the possession of a more or 

 less complete areolet ; and Cameron here placed his genus 

 larytm, though I am convinced of its Cremastid allinities upon 

 exannning the types. Little difficulty should, however, be ex- 

 perienced lu recognising the Anomalides if account be taken of 



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