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punctures shallow ; the clypeus, front up to the emargination of the 

 eyes, and cheeks delicately pilose ; a shallow vertical furrow from 

 the anterior ocellus meeting a short carina running up from 

 between the base of the antennae ; thorax smooth, shining, and 

 sparsely punctured ; a line on the pronotum, the sides and apex of 

 the mesouotum, the pleurae, and the sides and apex of the median 

 segment pilose ; median segment long, steeply sloped at apex ; 

 a transversely striate and niedially furrowed triangular space at 

 base enclosed by deep posteriorly convergent furrows ; the obliquely 

 truncated portion also with a medial furrow ; abdomen long, about 

 twice the length of the head and thorax united. Black, with. 

 glittering silvery pile ; the 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments red, 

 shaded with fuscous above ; legs testaceous, variegated with 

 black; wings hyaline and iridescent; nervures and teguli© pale 

 testaceous. 



Bah. North-West Provinces, India ; Ceylon ; Burma. § d . 

 Length 9-10 ; exp. 12-15 mm. 



421. Trypoxylon canaliculatum, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc U) 



ii, 1889, pp. 118, 122. 



5 . Closely allied to and resembling T. intrudens, Smith, but the 

 eyes beneath are closer, the clypeus is bluntly carinated in the 

 middle, the apex recurved ; the median segment has a more 

 gradual slope and the enclosed triangular space at its base is 

 smooth, the medial and lateral furrows only being transversely 

 striate. 



Hab. Barrackpore ; Tirhoot ; Mussooree. $ . Length 8-10 ; 

 exp. 12-13 mm. 



422. Trypoxylon buddha, Ca?«. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) ii, 1889 



pp. 118, 119. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen shining, covered all over with 

 a very thin short pubescence ; clypeus and the emargination of the 

 eyes densely pilose : the front raised, convex, divided by a deep 

 furrow which joins on below to a prominent carina above the bases 

 of the antenna) ; the front covered with coarse punctures ; median 

 segment coarsely transversely striate, a subtriangular space at 

 base enclosed by deep convergent furrows meeting about miduay 

 down the slope of tlie segment, the enclosed space \\ith a medial 

 broad furrow, beyoud the apex of which the segment is transversely 

 excavated; abdomen long, curved, the apex of the petiole swollen, 

 larger than the apex of the 2nd segment. Jet-black, the thin 

 short pubescence hoary white, the pile on the clypeus and face 

 shining silvery ; wings hyaline and beautifully iridescent, uervui-es 

 and tegulio testaceous brown. 



Hah. Barrackpore, Bengal. J . Length 9 ; exp. 12 mm. 

 <5 unknown. Type in coll. liothney. 



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