38 LYG^mJE. 



posterior lobe widened to lateral angles ; posterior margin concavelj' 

 sinuate; seutellum large, subtriangiilar ; corium longer than mem- 

 brane ; femora not prominently incrassated. 



Allied to the Paltearctic genus Heterogaster, from which it 

 differs by having the central lobe of the head longer than, and 

 projecting beyond, the lateral lobes ; the head and body are also 

 more elongate. 



748. Dinomachus sikhimensis, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, thickly blackly and coarsely punctate : much 

 suffused with black, especially on head, pronotum, seutellum, 

 and the apical area of the corium, where there is an irregular 

 transverse fascia followed by a rounded spot; membrane pale 



Fig. 27. — Binomaclius sikhimensis. 



broDzy : body beneath greyishly pilose ; legs ochraceous ; apices of 

 femora and annulations to tibife black ; counexivum black, spotted 

 with ochraceous ; antennse ochraceous, pilose. 



Length Sg millim. 



Hah. Bikhim. 



Genus HYGINUS. 



Hvjrinus, Stal, Frer/. Evg. Besa, Ins. Hem. p. 24] (1859) ; id. En. 

 ^Hem. iv, p. 168 (1874). 



Type, H. Icinhergi, Stll, from the Philippines. 



Distnhution. Oriental Hegion. 



Elongate : head broad, narrowed in front of eyes, central lobe 

 prominent, ocelli situate near base and nearer to eyes than to 

 each other ; eyes prominent ; antennse slender, finely pilose, 

 second joint longest ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxae, 

 first joint shorter than the head : pronotum long, posterior 

 margin strongly concave, lateral margins sinuate, posterior lobe 

 widened at lateral angles and depressed anteriorly, transverse 

 constriction distinct, anterior lobe moderately gibbous ; seu- 

 tellum large, disk with a cruciform carinatiou ; corium two- 

 thirds the length of abdomen, lateral margins almost straight ; 

 membrane reaching apex of abdomen, which is a little narrower at 

 apex than at base ; legs pilose, unarmed. 



