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legs deep shining yellow ; the head in front, the thorax, pedicel 

 and abdomen covered with dense, very short, erect, yellow hairs. 

 Head not quite twice as broad as long; the cheeks behind the 

 eyes not constricted, rounded and well developed ; the mandibles 

 flat and proportionately broader, though not so long as in 

 JE. grandis, the tooth on the inner side at base distinct and 

 acute. Thorax very gibbous in front, more so than in any other 

 known Indian species; the scutellum broad and rounded pos- 

 teriorly ; legs with the femora and tibia? gradually thickening 

 from base to apex. The pedicel flat or slightly convex in the 

 middle ; abdomen cylindrical, not enlarged towards the apex nor 

 curved downwards ; pygidium convex, shining, punctured at base, 

 its apical margin rounded, entire ; hypopygium broad, posteriorly 

 widely emarginate. 



Length, $ 5 mru. 



Hab. Ceylon (Green). 



It is possible this may be the d 1 of JE". ceylonicus, Mayr. 



11. JEnictus shuckardi, Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), 



pp 467 & 471, J. 



<$ Head jet-black, smooth and shining ; mandibles, antenna, 

 thorax, legs, pedicel and abdomen ochraceous brown, the abdo- 

 minal segments above darker in the 

 middle ; pubescence short, fine, fairly 

 dense and erect, of a brownish-yellow 

 colour. Head concave in front : the 

 cheeks behind the eyes fairly well deve- 

 loped, not flat and constricted as in 

 jE. ambiguus; mandibles flat, strongly 

 curved, somewhat short and not very 

 acute at apex. Thorax with the rneso- 

 notum strongly convex, the scutellum 

 broad and rounded posteriorly, the meta- 

 notum vertical without any basal portion ; 

 legs with the femora and tibijB davatef 



the latter not quite so swollen at apex as in ^E. greeni. Pedicel 

 flat, its upper surface semicylindrical, the sides only slightly raised, 

 the apex transverse ; abdomen cylindrical, only very slightly 

 larger towards the apex ; the pygidium narrow, transverse, slightly 

 convex, very highly polished and shining, its posterior margin 

 entire ; hypopygium flat, its posterior margin transverse. 



Length, cJ 5-6 mm. 



Hab. Bengal (Itothney) ; Burma ; Tenasserim (Bingham). 



12. .ffinictus clavatus, Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), 



pp. 467 & 471. 



cJ . Head dark castaneous brown, almost black; thorax and 

 abdomen ochraceous ; mandibles, antennae and legs paler yellow. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen covered with a fairly abundant, very 



