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very scattered literature. The total of Stepbaninge nowadays 

 (as distinct from the less typical Stenophasminaa) appears to 

 stand at about 111 species. I shall at present mention but half 

 a dozen. 



Stephanns iihlator, Scblett. 



* Berl. Ent. Zeits.,' xxxiii, 1889, p. 293, <? . 



Four females were captured by Mrs. Everard during 1911 

 at Aden, in South-West Arabia. These abdomen may thus 

 be described : 



Petiole much shorter than remainder of the abdomen {i. e. 6 mm, 

 to 10 mm.), evenly and moderately trans-striate throughout, excepting 

 at the apex, which is glabrous and nitidulous ; the striation extends 

 to both lateral and ventral surfaces ; remaining segments smooth and 

 shining, with base of the second narrowly transaciculate and a few 

 scattered hairs upon both the sides of the sixth segment and dorsum 

 of seventh. Terebra a little shorter than body {i. e. terebra 20 mm., 

 and body 24 mm.). From the typical description, the present insects 

 differ in nothing. 



. Steplianus Ceylon icus, Cam. 



* Journ. Str. Br. R. Asiatic Soc.,' xxxix, 1903, p. 102, ? . 



Col. Yerbury took the type at Trincomali before 1892. 

 Mr. 0. S. Wick war has been so good as to present me with 

 two Ceylonese females ; one was found by him at Kandy during 

 September, 1909, and the other was captured at Galgamua in 

 the following February. 



Steplianus tortus, sp. nov. 



A large black species with the petiole, part of the legs and mouth 

 piceous, and the terebra white-banded. Face reticulately, but not 

 transversely, rugose ; frontal tubercles conspicuous and acuminate, 

 posterior tubercles small ; occiput coarsely reticulate laterally, 

 centrally transaciculate, its posterior margin simple. Second flagel- 

 lar joint a little longer than the first, third as long as second. 

 Colliform prothorax transrugose ; semi-annular part glabrous ; meso- 

 notum smooth, with a central row of punctures, but the lateral ones 

 indistinct ; mesopleurae smooth above, rugulose below ; metapleurae 

 rugulose and separated from median segment by a shining and 

 glabrous sulcus ; median segment strongly and moderately punctate, 

 with its apex transaciculate. Petiole shorter than rest of abdomen 

 (9 mm. to 10 mm.), finely trans-striate throughout; remainder of 

 abdomen smooth and shining ; terebra a third longer than body 

 (34 mm. to 26 mm.), and subapically banded with white. Hind 

 coxae discally glabrous, and there finely tuberculate, below and within 

 obsoletely trans-striate ; hind femora iDidentate, shining and smooth, 

 with very sparse hairs and punctures ; their tibiae compressed at 



