OXYBELrS. 319 



*572. Oxybelus flavipes, Caw. Me/ti. Manch. L. Ph. Soc (4) iii, 1890, 

 pp. 276 & 277. 



" Head closely puuctured, the face, cheeks, and front densely 

 covered with golden pubescence ; the clypeus in the middle 

 and trophi yellow; the tips of the mandibles black, piceous red 

 before the black. Thorax punctured closely, covered with pale 

 pubescence ; a line on the collar, tubercles, tegulte, the scutellura, 

 except at the apex, clear stramineous-yellow ; the lateral plates 

 of the metanotum pale yellow. Pronotum rounded, the sides 

 obliquely truncate ; scutellum stoutly keeled down the centre ; 

 the central mucor [raucro ?] longer than broad, very slightly and 

 gradually dilated towards the apex, which is acutely and somewhat 

 triangularly incised ; the lateral plates are large, curved outwardly, 

 and ending in a sharply triangular point ; median segment with 

 an oblique slope, finely shagreened ; there is a short furrow below 

 the central m ucor [muero ? j ; two keels run from the lateral plates, 

 becoming united near the apex of the segment, and two other 

 keels run from the sides ; metapleurae finely longitudinally 

 shagreened. Abdomen shining, closely punctured, a yellow line on 

 the sides of the segments ; pygidial area densely covered with 

 stiff depressed golden hairs. Wings clear hyaline, the recurrent 

 nervure quite straight, not oblique, and received before the middle 

 of the radial cellule. Length nearly 5 mm." 



Hah. Barrackpore, Bengal. Type in coll. Eothney. 



573. Oxybelus fulvopilosUS, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iii, 

 1890, pp. 276 & 279, pi. x, tig. 23. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen minutely and closely punctured, 

 the punctures on the head very dense and minute ; clypeus broad, 

 transverse, its anterior margin arched, not carinate ; scutellum 

 posteriorly with a prominent medial longitudinal carina continued 

 over the postscutellum ; squamae punctured, acute at apex; mucro 

 narrow, the sides recurved, the apex deeply incised ; median 

 segment beneath shining, with the usual four convergent carinse, 

 the space enclosed by the inner carinas coarsely rugose at base, the 

 apex with a deep shining fovea. Black ; the clypeus, front and 

 cheeks, and sides of the thorax with a thin silvery pubescence, and 

 the vertex of the head and apical segment of the abdomen above with 

 an obscure fulvous pubescence ; the scape in front, the posterior 

 margin of the pronotum, the tubercles, a spot on the lateral angles 

 of the scutellum, the squamae, the anterior and intermediate femora 

 beneath, the posterior tibiae above, and large oval spots on both 

 sides of abdominal segments 1-5 above, yellow ; the flagellum of 

 the antenna^, the anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi, and 

 the posterior tarsi more or less fulvo-ferruginous ; wings hyaline, 

 nervures and tegula) testaceous. 



Hah. Barrackpore, Bengal. $. LengtJi 7 ; exp.lSmm. c? un- 

 known. Type in coll. Rothney. 



