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in the middle ; antennae rather slender, the scape reaching up to 

 the top of the head ; club of flagellum formed of the apical four 

 joints ; eyes lateral, a little closer to the top than to the anterior 

 margin of the head. Thorax : the pronotum in the maj. 

 convex, not margined, in the min. depressed and distinctly 

 margined ; pro-mesonotal suture distinct but not deep : the meso- 



Fig. 57. Cremastog aster ivroughfoni, 



notum in the $ min. subdentate posteriorly, in the $ maj. the 

 eminences are cariniform ; meso-metanotal suture very deep, the 

 sides vertical ; basal portion of the metanotum rectangular, twice 

 as broad as long in the maj., more narrow in the min. : 

 metanotal spines in maj. short and thick, in min. long and 

 slender. Pedicel : the ] st joint broadened, anteriorly cancave, as 

 broad as long, the apex posteriorly constricted ; 2nd joint with a 

 node anteriorly, longitudinally grooved and forming two rounded 

 eminences; abdomen broadly cordate. 



$ . Closely resembles the , but the head is longitudinally 

 striate and the basal margins of the abdominal segments narrowly 

 yellow. Wings hyaline. 



Length, g 3-5-5'5 ; $ 8 mm. 



Hal. Western India, Poona ( Wroughton). 



145. Cremastogaster subnuda, Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 

 xxviii (1878), pp. 080 & 682, $ . 



. Dark chestnut-red, the abdomen darkening posteriorly to 

 fuscous black ; pilosity almost entirely wanting, represented by a 

 few scattered whitish hairs. Head smooth, with a few very tine 

 indistinct longitudinal striae on the cheeks, above the antennal 

 hollow, and sometimes on the vertex ; seen from the front 

 the occiput is transverse, as broad as the head anteriorly, the 

 cheeks very convex ; mandibles punctured, in certain lights 

 finely striate; clypeus anteriorly not quite transverse, slightly 

 rounded, very convex in the middle ; antenna somewhat long and 

 slender, the scape reaching a little beyond the top of the head, 

 the club of the flagellum formed of the last three joints, of which 

 the apical two are abruptly much thickened ; eyes lateral, closer 

 to the top of the head than to the anterior margin. Thorax above 

 longitudinaUy rugulose, the pronotum rather large, rounded in 

 front, subangular at the sides ; pro-mesonotal suture tolerably 



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