.i;nictus. 



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yellow: head transverse, but louger than in ^£". auihiguus ; 

 scutellum not so promment, narrower and compressed : meta- 

 notum with a very distinct basal portion. Pedicel flat above, 

 a little concave at the extreme base ; pygidium strongly convex, 

 entii^e, with no longitudinally impressed medial line. 



9. ^nictus grandis, sp. n. 



S . Head jet-black, polished and shining ; mandibles, antenrue, 

 thorax, legs, pedicel and abdomen castaneous brown, the thorax 

 and abdomen somewhat fuscous above ; the mandibles, antennae 

 and front of the head with fairly long, erect, glistening yellow 

 hairs, the thorax and abdomen with somewhat sparse, short, 



recumbent pubescence of the 

 same colour ; wings f usco- 

 hyaline, nervures brown. 

 Head about twice as broad 

 as long ; eyes comparatively 

 small, anterior ; the cheeks 

 well developed and rounded ; 

 the occiput somewhat flat ; 

 mandibles long, flat, not 

 much curved ; antennae long, 

 the scape very broad, flat 

 and foliaceous : flagellum 

 cylindrical. Thorax massive ; 

 mesonotum with a short, 

 medial, longitudinally im- 

 pressed line in front ; scu- 

 tellum rounded posteriorly ; 

 metanotum with a short but 

 distinct oblique basal portion ; 

 legs with the femora spat- 

 ulate, tibiae clavate. Node 

 of pedicel from above semi- 

 circular, flat or slightly 

 longitudinally convex ; the 

 apex transvei'se, beneath 

 carinate, the carina ending in a strong tooth posteriorly ; abdomen 

 massive, enlarged towards the apes ; the pygidium strongly convex 

 above, its posterior margin entire ; hypopygium with its posterior 

 margin truncate. 



Lenr/th, (S 12-13 mm. 



Bab. Lower Burma, Toungoo {Hauxivell). 



The largest known species of the genus. 



Fig. 9. — J£nk-tus grrnidis, (^ . 



10. JEnictus greeni, sp. n. 



(S . Resembles ^. (jrandis in colour and in the shape of the 

 pedicel, but is very much smaller and more pubescent. Dark 

 castaneovis brown, the head black, the mandibles, antennae and 



