404 iciiNKirMoxin.i:. 



striolate l)eLin(l ; mesopleiira) basally striate and irregularly 

 reticulate, with their apical impression crenulate; metapleune 

 strongl}^ and irregularly reticulate, broadly impressed basally 

 above. Scmtellum with dense long dark hairs ; its base hardly more 

 strongly punctate than the mesonotum, its sides longitudinally 

 striolate throughout, and the apex centrally rugose. Abdomen. 

 ferruginous, with the two basal segments discally black. Lef/s : 

 anterior pairs flavous, with the femora subful descent ; hind coxie 

 black, apically rufescent and (in d" ) flavous centrally beneath ;. 

 their trochanters bright red, the femora and the basal two-thirds 

 of the tihicd dark red ; apices of hind tibia? black ; hind tarsi ful- 

 vescent flavous and densely pilose, with the second joint flattened 

 internally and in c? dilated apically. ]Vinf/s fulvescent hyaline, 

 with the stigma fulvous and the nervures darker ; internal cubital 

 nervurs emitted from the upper third of the submarginal, 



Lewjth 25-33 millim. 



United Pkovinces: Mussooi'i, 7500 ft., viii. 06 (//. M. Lefroy 

 — Pusa coll.) ; Assam : Khasi Hills (lioiJinei/, type) 



Ti/2ye in the Oxford Museum. 



297. ScMzoloma amicta, F. 



Ichneiannn mnictus, Fo-hrichm, Syst. Ent. 1775, p. 341; id., Syst. 



Ins. 1781, p. 436; id., Mant. Ins. i, p. 269; Yillers, Linn. lint. 



iii, 1789, p. 1^00; Gmelin, Linn. Svst. Nat. L v, 1790, p. l'7]0; 



Ilossi, Mant. 1792, p. 123; Fubriciiis, Ent. Syst. ii, 1793, p. 181. 

 OjMon amictiis, Fabriciiis, Ent. Syst., Suppl. 1798, p. 237; id., Syst. 



Piez. 1804, p. 133; OUvier, Enoycl. Meth. viii, 1811, p. 511. 

 Anomalon umicfvm, (-Jravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. iii, 1829, p. 650 ; 



Ratzebnrg, Ichn. d. Forst. i, p. 88 ; ii, p. 77 ; VoUenhoven, 



Pinac. pi. iii, tig. 5 ( J § ). 

 Therion mnictum, Cnrtis, Brit. Ent. xvi, pi. 736 {S)- 

 ScJiizoloma amicttitn, AVesmoel, Bull. Ac. Brux. 1849, p. 120 ; 



Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1854, p. 24; id., op. cit. 1858, p. 1.3 ; 



Kirchner, Lotos, 1856, p. 234 ; Bridgman & Pitch, Entom. 1884, 



p. 181 ; Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xvi, 1892, p. 1757 (cJ ?)• 



A large black species, with red abdomen and legs ; at once 

 known from the whole of the other Anomalides by its distinctly 

 reflexed and bilobed clypeus. 



Length 18-26 milhm. 



United Provinces : Mussoori, vii. 05 {E. P. Stebbing). Eueope. 



T)jpe in the British Museum. 



Js'o detailed description of this species is requisite here, since 

 Cameron's description of the preceding species will very well 

 represent the present one in every way, with the sole exception 

 of its flavous vertical orbits which, in my experience, are always 

 black in Fabricius's insect. S. amicta is stouter and more densely 

 pilose, with the thorax broader and the metathorax shorter, the 

 hind coxte and trochanters are less elongate and the head more 

 buccate on the vertex, the notauli less deeply impressed, the 



