IBECHTIIIS. AXILASTA. 493 



•eyes coarsely facetted and internally quite parallel ; cheeks short 

 and hardly longer than the antennal pedicle ; frons and vertex 

 aciculate ; ocelli prominent and remote, iiiucli further from one 

 another than from the eyes ; mandihles, usually excepting apices, 

 ilavous ; palpi pale testaceous and hasally black. Antenncs filiform, 

 slender and immaculate, shorter than the body. Jletanotum 

 irregularly and somew hat strongly striate and subpunctate ; 

 areola distinct, more than twice as long as broad and obliquely 

 constricted basally ; petiolar area not excavate, twice as long as 

 broad, carinate throughout, nitidulous and apically constricted; 

 spiracles small and circukar ; upper two-tliirds of propleurie and 

 basal half of mesopleura;, except below the centre, closely acicu- 

 late. Scidellum convex and black. Abdomen- smooth and hardly 

 ■compressed, centrally but little broader than the thorax, pilose, 

 with apices of all the segments somewhat indeterminately fulvous; 

 basal segment elongate and longer than second, with postpetiole 

 distinct and dilated, centrally closely aciculate, its spiracles close 

 to centre ; sph-acles of second segment very distinctly beyond the 

 centre; hypopygium obtusely exserted ; terebra not extending 

 beyond the anus, with the A\alvula3 broad and stout. Legs slender 

 and fulvous, with the coxa? and base of trochanters black ; hind 

 trochanters apically red or stramineous ; apices of femora, and 

 anterior tibia?, flavidous ; hind calcaria shorter than their second 

 tarsal joint. IVinr/s very amjjle and remarkably clear hyaline, 

 with the costa and the somewhat large stigma pale testaceous, and 

 the nervures black ; tegula? stramineous, pterostigma incrassate 

 and rounded behind ; areolet entire, triangular, narrowed and 

 more or less coalesced above, emitting the recurrent nervure from 

 its centre ; basal nervure continuous ; radial cell somewhat short 

 and broad, angled above the areolet ; apical nervures of the hind 

 wings pellucid. 



Length G millim. 



BALrcHiSTA^s : Peshin, iv. 03 {Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurses' collection. 



The small distinctions upon which Cameron differentiated his 

 second species are not at all obvious, the clypeus is distinctly red 

 apically in both, and an examination of both the types has"con- 

 vinced me that they are specifically identical. 



Genus ANIL AST A, Thomson. 



(?) Anilastus, Fiirster, Verb. pr. IJlieinl. 1868, p. lo7. 

 AnUasta, Thomson, Opiisc. Ent. xi, 1887, p. 11(38. 



Gexotype, Campo^Tlex ebeninus, Grav. 



Head anteriorly triangular; cheeks somewliat elongate, not 

 buccate, with the genal costa inllexed ; clypeus convex and 

 apically rounded, with small lateral foveae ; mandibles narrowed 

 apically, with the teeth subequal ; eyes slightly emarginate next 

 the scrobes. Antennal flagellum usually stout and elongate, 



