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I have seen two females of this species at Oxford, in West- 

 wood's collectiou, captured in "India" by Boys ;^ and in the 

 British Museum is a nice series, taken in "India"' by Baly in 

 ]S51 and " Northeru India" by Captain Eeid in 18,15. Its range 

 is probably wide, since Fortune took it at Shanghai in 1854 and 

 Bo wring at Hong-Kong in 18U1. 



305. ExocMlum diabolus, Mori. 



ExocMlum diaholus, Mork-y, Rev. Ichn. Brit. Mas. il, 191o, p. T-!. 



2 . A very large, dull black, pilose species, with nitidulous 

 abdomen and" blackish wings. Head nearly as broad as the thorax 

 aud not very buccate behind the internally broadly emarginate 

 eyes; frous" and vertex rugulose, with the former centrally 

 carinate and the occipital carina strong ; face scabrously punctate, 

 centrally elevated, with the orbits and a line from antennae to epi- 

 stoma testaceous ; clypeus discrete, more sparsely punctate aud 

 not apicallv elevated ;' palpi, apices of mandibles, and the external 

 orbits in the centre, rufescent ; cheeks distinct. Antemue bright 

 fulvous (17 millim. in length), not slender, with the scape and 

 base of the laterally subsinuate first flagellar joint black. Thorax 

 immaculate, short 'and stout, coarsely and scabrously punctate, 

 with the metauotum strongly rugose, and all the pleura? mon; 

 finely and evenly punctate; notauli discally very deeply impressed 

 but 'not creuulate, apically subobsolete : metauotum short, very 

 strongly subtrausversely rugose and with loug black tomentuni, 

 laterally buccate basally, with the centre broadly, and at the apex 

 deeply," excavate and trans-strigose. Scutellum distinctly con- 

 vex, black, rugosely punctate and with long black tomentum, with 

 no lateral carina?. " Abdomen discally linear, longer than twice the 

 liead and thorax, nitidulous blackj with the apices of the two 

 basal segments aud the disc of the third obscurely badious ; basal 

 segment" linear, glabrous aud basally sulcate, with the spiracles 

 shortly betore the apex; terebra shorter than half the basal 

 segment, rufescent, vith the valvula? black and apically suboblique. 

 Leys slender and strongly elongate, blade, with the front ones 

 except basallv, and the intermediate femora, dull ferruginous ; 

 hind trochanters, base of their tarsi aud, more obscurely, of their 

 tibiiB, dull castaueous ; basal hind tarsal joint 4 millim. in length, 

 the second 1,4 millim.; claws small and not pectinate. Wnif/s 

 unicolorous blackish throughout, with the nervures exactly as in 

 the last species. 



Length 26 millim. 



T}ipe in the Oxford Museum. 



The extremely dark wings render this fine species very con- 

 spicuous ; it is very closely allied to the Nearctic E. ienuij)es, 

 Nort. (^Proc. Ent. Soc. Pliiladelpliia, 1803, p. 300). 



The type is labelled simply " India." 



