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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The systematic position of Hadrocryptus is not clear. It has 

 the parapsidal furrows, the sternal furrow, and the spiracles on 

 the first abdominal segment as in the Cryptinse, and the oral 

 region is as in that group ; on the other hand, the fore legs are 

 as in the Xoridini, the tibife being short, thick, and distinctly 

 contracted or narrowed at the base. The claws are large and 

 curved, the tibiae spinose ; the four hind tibiae are curved at the 

 base. The transverse median nervure in the hind wings is 

 broken below the middle ; in the fore wings it is received before 

 the transverse basal. The temples are not very broad, and are 

 roundly narrowed. Its resemblance to Echtkrus (which has been 

 placed by some authors in the Cryptinae, by others in the Pim- 

 plinae, in the tribe Xoridini, from^the position of the abdominal 

 spiracles) is close — perhaps on the whole closer than with the 

 Cryptinae. I leave it in that group from the position of the 

 abdominal spiracles. To the generic description (Manchr. 

 Memoirs, xlvii. (v.), No. 14. p. 11) should be added, '' Apex of 

 clypeus with a minute tooth in the middle." 



\/ Cratojoppa cingulata, sp. nov. 



Black ; the face, clypeus, labrum, mandibles, except at apex, a line 

 round the orbit, that on the outer becoming gradually widened below, a 

 line on the base, top and bottom of prothorax, two lines, straight on 

 the inner, rounded on the outer side on mesonotum, the scutellar 

 keels, a line round the sides and apex of scutellum, post-scutellum, a 

 mark, dilated to a fine point on the outer side, on the sides of the 

 metanotum, a line down the centre of the basal half of metanotum, 

 roundly contracted at the base, united below to a large mark covering 

 the outer apical area, the apex dilated on to the edge of the spiracular, 

 along whicii the outer edge is continued, the top of the mark being 

 roundly incised; tubercles, sternum, the mark extending on to the 

 pleura, the apices of all the abdominal segments, the lines on the 

 second and third broader than the others, that on the fourth incised, 

 and on the fifth iutei-rupted in the middle — -yellow. Four front legs 

 yellow, the femora tinged with fulvous, the tibiae and tarsi darker 

 above ; hind coxeb and trochanters yellow, the former largely and 

 irregularly marked with black above, the femora reddish fulvous, their 

 apical third black ; tibife pale yellow, the apical third black ; the tarsi 

 white. Antennae broadly ringed with white, the scape white below. 

 Wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma black, g . Length, 15 mm. 



Face and upper part of clypeus strongly but not closely punctured, 

 the front and vertex very smooth and shining. Base and middle of 

 mesonotum closely, strongly punctured ; the sides sparsely punctured 

 inwardly, outwardly smooth, as is also the whole of the apex. Scutel- 

 lum strongly, deeply punctured, except along the edges ; post-scutellum 

 smooth. Areola smooth at the base, the rest finely, transversely 

 striated, punctured along the sides. The lateral basal area with large, 

 deep, clearly separated punctures in the centre ; the apical lateral 

 closely, deeply, strongly punctured ; the apical slope strongly, trans- 

 versely striated, the posterior median more closely, regularly, and 



