CAMPOPLEX. 451 



•closely punctate and not very narrow posteriorly ; frons simple, 

 and the scrobes a little elevated externally; mandibles, except at 

 apex, testaceous and basally as broad as tlie cheeks; palpi black. 

 Antenna' iiinnaculate, with the basal flagellar joints not discrete. 

 Thorax with the metanotum tiuely scabrous and not at all 

 impressed, with no trace of carina* ; spiracles elongate. Scutellinn 

 ■coarsely punctate, and not carinate. Abdomen obsoletely ])unctate, 

 black, with the third, fourth, and base of the fifth segments bright 

 red : postpetiole linear and hardly broader than the petiole, 

 valvulse large and exserted. Legs black, somewhat slender, with 

 only the front coxae apically, their femora and tibia? internally, 

 testaceous. Whuis hyaline, with the tegulae and stignia black ; 

 areolet vertical, somewhat hroad, with its petiole hardly a fourth 

 the length of the internal nervure, external nervure straight. 

 emitting the recurrent nervure from distinctly before its centre : 

 radius externally sinuate, lower basal nervure elongately post- 

 furcal ; lower wings with basal abscissa of radius half as lone 

 ■again as recurrent ; nervellus neither geniculate nor intercepted, 

 'but slightlv curved below. 



Length 9 millim. 



TxiTED Provixces: Mussoori, 7000 ft., x.06 (F. M. Lefroy). 



Tijpe in the Pusa collection. 



In size and coloration it closely resembles C. :onatus, but the 

 -conformation of the areolet, etc., is very distinct. Its facies 

 ■closely resembles that of C. Japponicus, Holmg. 



-33S. Campoplex perditor, Forst. 



C'ampoplex perditor, Forster, Verb. z.-b. Ges. 1868, p. 796 ; Kviech- 

 baumer, Cnrr. Zool. Miu. Yer. Reg. 1883, p. 113 ; Thomson, 

 Opusc. Ent. xi, 1892, p. 1077 ( $ ). 



5 . Bead black and narrowed posteriorly, with the mandibles 

 ■(except apically) and palpi pale; frons distinctly carinate and not 

 impressed centrally ; scrobes simple. Antenna' black and nearly 

 as long as the body. Thorax immaculate, with piceous pilosity; 

 pronotum trans-striate beneatli ; mesopleuras strongly punctate and 

 somewhat nitidnlous. ScuteUum distinctly convex. Abdomen. 

 strongly compressed, red, with the basal segment, second (except 

 its apex), the third discall}^ and sometimes the following discallv, 

 black ; basal segment elongate, with weak lateral fovea^ and 

 prominent spiracles ; third segment laterally emarginate ; terebra 

 shortly exserted. Zeys testaceous, with the anterior basallv, the 

 bind coxae, trochanters and femora, with apex and extreme base 

 ■of their tibia;, black. Wings hyaline, with the tegukc blackish 

 and the stigma dull ferruginous ; areolet subpetiolate, emitting 

 the recurrent nervure from its centre ; basal nervure slightly 

 .postfurcal. 



Length 9 millim. 



2g2 



