.ENICTUS. 9 



prominent ; legs robust, the femora slightly compressed, the tibiae 

 cylindrical. Pedicel broadly longitudinally sulcate, the sides 

 rounded anteriorly, angular posteriorly; abdomen rather short, 

 about the length of the head and thorax united. 



Length, <$ 9-9-5 mm. 



Hob. Kanara ( Wrour/Jiton). 



6. JEnictus ambiguus, Shuck. Ann. N. H. v (1840), p. 268, rf; 

 Ford, Jour. Botnb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), p. 467. 



c? . Head jet-black, shining ; thorax deep brown ; antennae, 

 mandibles, legs, and abdomen yellow. Head constricted behind 

 tbe eyes, smooth and shining at back, with short erect pubescence 

 in front ; mandibles long, sickle-shaped. Thorax very convex 

 above ; scutellum prominent, truncate, or slightly emarginate 

 posteriorly, overhanging the postscutellum and metanotum ; this 



Fig. 8. Quietus ambiguus, <$ 



last almost vertical, with little or no basal portion ; the whole 

 thorax covered with Jong, recumbent, whitish-yellow hairs : legs 

 comparatively long, with the femora and tibiae cylindrical, not 

 compressed, and only very slightly and gradually clavate towards 

 the apex ; wings clear hyaline, nervures yellowish brown. Pedicel 

 about as wide as the base of the abdomen, concave from right to 

 left, the sides parallel ; abdomen subclavate, bent downwards, 

 pubescent, the hairs long, yellowish white, recumbent. 



$ unknown. 



Length, <3 7'5-8 mm. 



Hab. N.W. Provinces, India (Brit. Mm.) ; Sikhim, Kungit A r alley 

 (Mfitter); "Western India, Guzerat, Poona (Wrovghton). 



