CAIIPOPLEX. — ZACHRESTA. 465 



JFrom the figure of tlie nreolet it would appear most closel}^ 

 allied, in this respect, to Campople.v sumjitnosiis. 



JSo many European species occur in Kashmir, that the present 

 is probably no more than a synonym of some well-known insect, 



358. Campoplex speciosus. Cam. 



Camjwplt'.i- speciosus, Cameron, Maiich. Mem. 180", p. 27 {? cJ ). 



Head black, closely and uniformly punctate, Mith dense silvery 

 pubescence ; mandibles Havous, with piceous teeth. Antennce 

 entirely black and longer than the body. Thorax immaculate, 

 closely punctate, with dense and short wliite pubescence ; meso- 

 notum longitudinally sulcate centrally ; the metathorax " in the 

 midiUe, in the part below the triangular keel, is irregularly striated ; 

 the apex with the stride more apart, and it is more'shinino-" ; 

 mesopleurse more sparsely punctate. AJxIomeu black, with the 

 third to fifth segments entirely red. Ler/s black ; front coxa3 and 

 trochanters entirely, the intermediate ones partly, and the anterior 

 femora beneath, bright flavous ; front tibiae and tarsi entirely, 

 and the intermediate tibia? in front, stramineous ; calcaria \vhite, 

 coxae with silvery pubescence. Wiiif/s clear hyaline, with the 

 costa and nervures black. 



Length 12 millim. 



Ceylon, 



This species, whose sex is not intimated, is said by its author to 

 be very closely allied to ('. buddha, but to differ in the lart^e and 

 clearly defined basal triangular metanotal carina. 



Genus ZACHRESTA, Fdrst. 

 ZacJiresta, Forster, Verb. pr. Rheiul. 1868, p. 151. 

 Genotype, Z. insignis, Woldst. 



This genus is very closely allied to Campoplex, but may be 

 recognised from the remainder of the Campoplegides by the 

 following characters. Notauli obsolete or wanting: metanotum 

 not declivous throughout, nor with its apex produced above the 

 hind coxa3 ; mefatlioracic spiracles elongate and not circular : 

 scutellum not acutely carinate laterally ; abdomen not compressed 

 so soon as at the second segment ; its postpetiole distinctly dilated ; 

 tibial calcaria distinctly shorter than the metatarsus ; hind tarsi 

 not dilated; areolet entire.. 



ItaiKje. United States, Russia, Sikkim. 



359. Zachresta nigromaculata, Cam. 



Zach7-esta nifjromaculidn, Canierou, Ann. Nat. Hist, xx, 1907 



p.i3($): 



5 , A flavous species, with very profuse black mariungs. Head 

 closely and somewhat strongly pnnctate, (lavous and with white 

 pubescence, the ocelli, and a large central occipital mark gradually 



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