106 Mr. P. Cameron on Neio Species 



stoutly obliquely striolated. Thorax opaque, the mesonotum covered 

 with white pubescence. Abdominal petiole smooth ; the base of 

 the post-petiole depressed in the middle ; the segments banded with 

 yellow at the apex. 



Cryptus himalayensis, sp. nov. 



Black ; the face, clypeus, labrum, mandibles broadly at the base, 

 palpi, the orbits narrowly above, widely below, yellow ; a broad 

 line on the base of the prothorax, a slightly narrower one on the 

 pronotum, the tegula?, and the tubercles, lemon-yellow ; the apex 

 of the petiole rufous in the middle ; the 2nd segment to near the 

 apex, black sufiused with rufous ; the apex and the other segments 

 ferruginous. The four front coxte and trochanters whitish-yellow ; 

 the hinder black ; the femora fulvous, the tibi?e and tarsi testaceous, 

 the middle tibiae slightly darker, the tarsi paler ; the hinder femora 

 and tibi« rufous, the under-side of the apical joint of the trochanters, 

 the apex of the hinder tibifc and the base of the tarsi, blackish ; the 

 rest of the tarsi white. Wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma 

 black. ? . 



Length 11 ; terebra 4 mm. 



The scape and the four or five middle joints of the flagellum 

 striated ; the apex is, at the sides, strongly transversely striated, the 

 centre coarsely punctured. Propleurte, except at the base, closely 

 longitudinally striated, finely and closely above, much more strongly 

 below ; the meso- opaque, granular, the middle and apex obscurely 

 striated. The metapleurse with a distinct oblique furrow below the 

 spiracles ; behind this they are finely longitudinally, in front more 

 strongly, obliquely striated. 



Cryptus bibulus, sp. nov. 



Black ; the scape of the antenn;e beneath, the face, clypeus, man- 

 dibles, palpi, the inner orbits narrowly, the outer, except at the top, 

 broadly whitish-yellow, the 3rd and following abdominal segments 

 obscure rufous. The four front coxte and trochanters white, the 

 femora, tibije and tarsi fulvous ; the hinder coxa), trochanters, the 

 femora, except at the base, broadly above, the apical three -fourths 

 of the tibiaa and the base of the metatarsus, black ; the fulvous 

 colour on the hinder femora and tibiie is darker than on the front 

 legs. Wings hyaline, the stigma and nervures black. $ . 



Length 9 mm. 



Face minutely punctured, the clypeus with some scattered punc- 

 tures ; the vertex roughly aciculated, the front smoother and not 

 much depressed. Mesonotum strongly, closely and uniformly punc- 

 tured ; its middle lobe raised distinctly at the base ; the scuteilum 



