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9 



prominent ; legs robust, tlie femora slightly compressed, the tibiae 

 cylindrical. Pedicel broadly longitudinally sulcate, the sides 

 rounded anteriorly, angular posteriorly ; abdomen rather short, 

 about the length of the head and thorax united. 



Length, cS 9-9*5 mm. 



Hah. Kanara ( Wronr/hton). 



6. JEnictus ambiguus, Shuck. Aim. K. H. v (1840), p. 268, d"; 

 Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), p. 467. 



S . Head jet-black, shining ; thorax deep brown ; antennae, 

 mandibles, legs, and abdomen yellow. Head constricted behind 

 the eyes, smooth and shining at back, with short erect pubescence 

 in front ; mandibles long, sickle-shaped. Thorax very convex 

 above ; scutellum prominent, truncate, or slightly emargiiiate 

 posteriorly, overhanging the postscutellum and metanotum : this 



Fig. S. —JEnictus amhigmis, J'. 



last almost vertical, with little or no basal portion ; the whole 

 thorax covered with long, recumbent, whitish-yellow hairs : legs 

 comparatively long, with the femora and tibiae cylindi'ical. not 

 compressed, and only very slightly and gradually clavate towards 

 the apex; wings clear hyaline, nervures yellowish brown. Pedicel 

 about as wide as the base of the abdomen, concave from right to 

 left, the sides parallel; abdomen subclavate, bent downwards, 

 pubescent, the hairs long, yellowish white, recumbent. 



$ unknown. 



Leiif/th, J 7*5-8 mm. 



Hah. N.W. Provinces, India (Brit. Mits.) ; Sikhim, Rungit Valley 

 (Mnller); Western India, Guzerat, Poona ( Wrovf/hton). 



