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species. The locality Malabar given for flavicornis is 

 evidently erroneous, but there are several mistaken localities 

 among the Fabrician types in the Banksian collection. 



Cryptochihis goiodeyi, sp. n. 



$ ■ Nigra ; femoribus basi uigris, tibiis tarsisque fulvo-aurantiacis, 

 alis flavis, fulvo-tinctis, apice angustissime fusco-marginatis ; 

 unguiculis unidentatis. 



cJ . Femina? similis ; unguiculis bifidis ; postscutello conigero. 



Long., $ 25-32, d 22-32 mm. 



$ . Clypeus convex, the anterior margin broadly sub- 

 truncate, minutely punctured, with sparse large punctures 

 interspersed, from each of which springs a long black hair. 

 Second joint of the flagellum half as long again as the third; 

 eyes separated on the vertex by a distance equal to about 

 three-quarters of the length of the second joint of the 

 flagellum. Head and thorax clothed with black hairs, 

 scutellum and postscutellum not compressed, the former flat, 

 the latter feebly convex. Median segment obliquely sloped 

 on the apical portion, the oblique declivity not sharply 

 separated from the dorsal surface ; bluntly, roundly sub- 

 tuberculate laterally at the base ; the dorsal surface rather 

 finely transversely striated, the striae on the oblique slope 

 much coarser. Abdomen shining, microscopically punc- 

 tured, with a few larger punctures intermingled; sixth tergite 

 closely punctured, densely clothed with fusco-ferruginous 

 seta? ; transverse groove of the second sternite deep and 

 sinuate. Cubitus of the hind wing originating distinctly 

 beyond the transverse median nervure. Radial cell of the 

 fore wing obliquely truncate at the apex ; second abscissa of 

 the radius nearly as long as the first and third combined ; 

 first recurrent nervure received distinctly before the apex of 

 the second cubital cell ; second before the middle of the third 

 cubital cell ; submedian cell much longer than the median, 

 the nervulus oblique. Hind tibise strongly serrate, tarsal 

 ungues unidentate. 



<£ . Differs from the female in having the scutellum sub- 

 tuberculate in the middle, the postscutellum raised into a 

 large conical tubercle ; the hind tibias are spinose, not 

 serrate, the tarsal ungues strongly bifid. In both sexes the 

 wings are yellow, clothed with minute fulvous hairs, which 

 are much denser towards the base. Seventh tergite of the 

 male broadly truncate at the apex ; seventh sternite with a 

 raised triangular area extending nearly to the apex. 



