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short, pale pubescence, somewhat longer and recumbent on the 

 sides of the apical half of the abdomen ; wings hyaline, nervures 

 yellowish brown. Head posteriorly wider than iii JE. shuckardi ; 

 the cheeks behind the eyes well developed and 

 broad ; head in front slightly concave, vertex 

 not much arched ; ocelli rather distant from 

 each other ; mandibles narrower than in 

 sE. shuckardi, short and much curved. Thorax 

 with the inesonotum very convex in front ; 

 scutellum broad, prominent, rounded, posteriorly 

 not overhanging the metaiiotum, which has a 

 distinct horizontal basal portion, the apical 

 portion vertical and truncate ; legs with the 

 femora and tibiae attenuate at base, strongly 

 . clavate towards the apex. Pedicel very slightly 

 concave above, very thick, semicircular in shape ; 

 the apex transverse, laterally slightly compressed, the sides flat 

 and vertical ; abdomen comparatively short, cylindrical, the 

 pygidium entire. 

 Length, tf 5 mm. 



Hob. Western India, Guzerat, Kanara ( Wroughton) ; Sikhiin 

 (Bingham). 



A variety with the pubescence somewhat more dense has been 

 named var. kanarensis by Dr. Forel. 



Fig. 11. 



jEnictus clavatus, 



13. JEnictus longi, Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), pp. 467 

 &470, rf. 



d . Mandibles long and somewhat obtuse at apex, the joints 

 2-9 of the flagellum of the antennae 

 thicker than long ; eyes not reaching the 

 posterior margin of the head, the latter 

 feebly convex and distinct from the 

 articulation with the thorax ; ocelli large, 

 not placed on an eminence ; head without 

 the eyes about as long as broad. Pedicel 

 concave above with the sides raised, 

 broader than long, broader posteriorly 

 than in front, beneath tuberculate ; wings 

 short, basal portion of the metanotum 

 indistinct, almost obsolete. Front sub- 

 opaque, densely punctured; thorax and 

 longi, $. abdomen more distantly punctured. Head, 



thorax and abdomen densely pubescent. 

 Pygidium smooth and shining, with a longitudinal impression, and 

 its posterior border medially emarginate. Scape of the antennae 

 and femora only moderately thickened from base to apex. 

 Length, <3 7 mm. 



Hab. The Graro Hills, Assam (Long) ; Burma, Pegu (Bingham). 

 Sufficiently distinguished by its emarginate pygidium. 



