of Cryptinx from the Khasia Hills. 109 



to the base in the middle, yellow. The eight middle joints of the 

 antennje clear white, except on the top where they are marked with 

 black. Four front legs pale fulvous, the coxae and trochanters white, 

 the hinder of a deeper fulvous colour, their coxaj broadly black on 

 the sides and at the apex above, their base above white ; the apex 

 of the femora and the base of the tibiae, the apex of the tibife and 

 the base of the tarsi, black ; the rest of the tarsi, except the last 

 .joint, white, and there is a testaceous band near the base. Wings 

 hyaline. 9 • 



Length 12 ; terebra 5 mm. 



Face rather strongly punctured, the clypeiis almost smooth ; in 

 the centre of the face is a narrow black line, continued to the base 

 of the clypeus as a brownish one ; there is a black line on the base 

 of the clypeus. Front and vertex strongly striated ; the central 

 keel straight, the others more oblique. Mesonotum shining, thickly 

 covered with long fuscous hair ; the middle lobe clearly separated. 

 The metanotum at the base smooth ; it has a semicircular depression 

 in the centre ; the rest of the segment is strongly transversely 

 striated ; the apex has a slightly oblique slope ; its centre is smooth, 

 the sides obliquely striated. Propleurse in the centre with large, 

 stout, curved stria3, the top and bottom sti'ongly aciculated ; the 

 meso- except in the middle behind, strongly longitudinally striated ; 

 the meta- strongly obliquely striated, the striae becoming stronger 

 from the base to the apex. Abdomen smooth and shining ; the 2nd 

 and 3rd segments strongly aciculated. 



Friona curvicarinata, sp. nov. 



Black ; the face, clypeus, labrum, palpi, mandibles, a mark on 

 the vertex opposite the ocelli and the apices of all the abdominal 

 segments, yellow. The four front legs are yellowish, with a pale 

 fulvous tinge ; the middle tarsi blackish, the hinder coxae pale 

 yellow, broadly black at the apex, narrowly above on the outer-side, 

 the trochanters black, the femora dull fulvous, broadly black above, 

 the tibiae black, the base to shortly beyond the middle, dull fulvous, 

 the tarsi white, the base of the metatarsus narrowly and the extreme 

 apex, black. Wings hyaline. Antenna3 filiform, longer than the 

 body, the scape below and a Inroad band shortly beyond the middle 

 of the flagellum, white. ^ . 



Length 13 mm. 



Face rugosely punctured, transversely striated in the centre, 

 thickly covered with short white hair, front and vertex smooth ; in 

 front of the ocelli are three rows of irregular, curved keels, all bent 

 backwards in the middle ; on the sides of the front are two or three 



