of Gryptiiiie from the KJiasia Hills, 117 



apex, and the former is gradually, and slightly rounded from the 

 ocelli to the hase of the antennae. Black, the inner orbits from the 

 base of the clypeus to near the end of the vertex, the outer more 

 broadly below — the yellow becoming dilated round the base of the 

 mandibles, the palpi, the top and bottom of the prothorax, tegulse, 

 scutellums, the apex of the median segment, including the spines, 

 broadly at the sides, tubercles, a large crescent-shaped mark behind 

 the metathoracic spiracles, a large mark on the apex of the middle 

 lobe of the mesonotum ; the apex of the 1st abdominal segment, of 

 the 2nd broadly, the apical segments entirely and the basal two 

 segments beneath, yellow. Legs rufo-fulvous, the four front coxa? 

 and trochanters white ; tlie apex of the hinder tilnaj infuscated. 



Face strongly and closely punctured, the upper part laterally 

 obscurely striated ; the clypeus more weakly and closely punctured ; 

 tlie front and vertex coarsely shagreened, the front slightly depressed 

 and keeled down the centre. Mandibles ferruginous before the 

 teeth. Mesonotum shagreened, shining, covered with a short black 

 pile. The keel on the metanotum is broadly and roundly curved 

 backwards in the middle ; the space behind it coarsely reticulated, 

 the sides at the base smooth and shining ; the keels on its centre 

 straight and slightly converging towards the apex ; the reticulations 

 on the yellow sides are golden. Propleurse stoutly obliquely striated, 

 except at the base ; near the Ijase is a stoiTt perpendicular keel. 

 Mesopleurae punctured and irregularly striated ; the metapleurfc 

 strongly, almost uniformly and slightly obliquely, striated. Wings 

 hyaline, the stigma fuscous, paler beloAV, the nervures darker. First 

 alidominal segment smooth and shining, becoming gradually dilated 

 from the middle to the apex, the middle segments aciculated. 



Mesostenus salutator, sp. nov. 



Black, a broad line on the pronotum, tegulaj, a squarish mark on 

 the apex of the middle lol^e of the mesonotum, the scutellar keels, 

 the scutellums, two broad marks on the sides of the apex of the 

 median segment, the base of propleurse, tubercles, an elongated 

 curved line on the niesopleur*, extending from below the tubercles 

 to the base of the middle cox«, a long crescent-shaped mark — narrowed 

 on the inner end, more truncated below — behind the spiracles, a 

 line following the oblique keel on the metapleuraj — broad at the 

 base, becoming narrowed towards the apex — and the apices of the 

 2nd to 5th and the abdominal segments entirely, yellow. Four 

 front legs fulvous, their coxse and trochanters pale yellow, the apex 

 of hinder tibiae, the base and apex of the hinder tarsi black ; the rest 

 of the tarsi white. Wings hyaline, the stigma and nervures black. 9 • 



Length 11 ; terebra 2 mm. 



