of Cryptinie from the Khasia Hills. 105 



small, narrowed at the base. The 7tli to 12th joints of the antennae 

 clear white at the sides and below ; the scape with a narrow white 

 line below. $ . 



Length 12 ; terebra 2 mm. 



Face and clypeus shining, strongly punctured and sparsely covered 

 with white hair ; the front with a wide and deep furrow down the 

 centre and strongly transversely striated ; the vertex on the lower 

 jrnrt irregularly reticulated and striated, behind punctured. The 

 apical half of the mandibles deep black. Mesonotum coarsely and 

 closely punctured ; the scutellums smooth ; the metanotum has, in 

 the middle, a smooth area, wider than long, widened from the base 

 to the apex and bordered by stout keels laterally ; the sides next 

 to this smooth, the rest behind the keel irregularly, obliquely 

 striated and punctured, the rest of the segment strongly irregularly 

 reticulated all over, the reticulations more distinct at the apex. 

 Petiole smooth and shining ; the post-petiole laterally with some 

 large, widely separated punctures ; the 2nd segment closely and 

 rather strongly punctured ; the gastrocoeli smooth and shining. 



Cryptus rufopetiolatus, sp. nov. 



Black ; the clypeus, except the oblique apex, a small oval mark 

 in the middle of the face, the inner orbits entirely, the outer more 

 broadly, except above, the mandibles, except at the apex, the palpi, 

 the basal half of the scutellum, the post-scutellum, the metanotal 

 spines and keel and the apex of the petiole, yellow : the scape of 

 the antennjB beneath and the abdominal petiole, except at the apex, 

 rufous. Legs rufous, the liinder tarsi black ; the apical half of the 

 2nd tarsal joint and the whole of the 3rd and 4th, white. Scutellum 

 closely punctured ; the post-scutellum bifoveate at the base. The 

 median segment behind the keel closely and finely rugose ; the 

 spines thin, broad, bluntly rounded at the top ; the two are united 

 by a narrow keel, which, is roundly curved backwards ; the space 

 between the two keels is iri-egularly, mostly obliquely, striated, 

 except the triangular space in the middle above ; the oblique apex 

 closely rugose and irregularly striated in the middle. Propleura) 

 closely striated ; the meso- closely rugose and thickly pilose. The 

 6th to 12tli joints of the antennae white. Wings hyaline, the 

 stigma black. 9 • 



Length 17 ; terebra 5 mm. 



Face closely punctured and thickly covered with white hair, 

 Clypeus distinctly projecting ; its basal and apical halves obliquely 

 depressed. The upper inner orbits raised ; the front and vertex 

 depressed ; the former smooth, obscurely aciculated ; the vertex 



