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pale, but brounisli tinted ; raetathorax formed as in //. kaiiu 

 tarce, with tlie same peeuliar basal area; upper side of 

 jirotliorax laterally densely hairy ; tegulie hyaline testaceous. 

 Win«is dusky hyuline, stigma and iiervures testaceous ; 

 second s.m. narrow ; first r. n. joining second t.-c. ; third 

 t.-c. Avith a single very slight curve. Legs with pale hair, 

 including outer side of tibiae; hind spur with four long 

 spines. Abdomen broad, fir.>t segment smooth and shining, 

 the others appearing minutely granular; second and thinl 

 segments with dense basal bands at sides, rapidly narrowing 

 to a point mesad ; venter with long hair. 



Hub. Sigiri, Ceylon, March 1910 (E. Comber). 



Evidently related to H. kalutarce, hnt smaller, with normally- 

 formed head. 



Halk'tus semisculptus , sp. n. 



? o — Length about 8 mm. 



Robust, black, with very pale ochreous pubescence ; head 

 broad; clypeus shining, hmgitudinally grooved, with punc- 

 tures in rows ; snpraclypeal area convex, dullish, hardly 

 sculptured ; front dull, minutely granular ; vertex shining ; 

 cheeks normal, broad, hairy ; antennae black, flagellum 

 faintly brownish at apex ; mesothorax and scutellum 

 granular-punctate, but moderately shining ; postscutellum 

 (but not hind border of mesothorax) covered with pale 

 tomentum ; basal area of metathorax large, shiny, rather 

 more than the basal half covered with irregular wrinkles, 

 tending to form a network ; posterior truncation well-defined, 

 the upper lateral angles greater than right angles, while from 

 them proceeds a ridge along each side of metathorax, running 

 a little upwards ; tegulse reddish testaceous. Wings hyaline ; 

 nervures and stigma dull testaceous ; third t.-c. and second 

 r. n much weakened ; second s.m. broad, Hrst r. n. reaching 

 extreme basal corner of third s.m.; hair on inner side of 

 tarsi bright ferruginous ; land spur with strong spines ; first 

 abdominal segment smooth and shining, with scattered 

 extremely minute punctures ; the other segments shining, 

 but surface appearing more granular; second and third 

 segments with rather thin basal bands of greyish tomentum, 

 continuous right across; fifth segment dark reddish. 



Hab. Kalutara, Ceylon, March 1910 [E. Comber). 



Closely resembles some of the species inhabiting the north- 

 eastern United States, especially H.arcuatus parisiis, Lovell. 



Hulictus nasicensis, sp. n. 

 $ . — Length about 6 mm. 



