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8. Hemigaster carinifrons, Cam. 



Hemigaster carinifrons, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899. p. 201 (d 2). 



Head red, with only the apices of the basally closely punctate 

 and laterally carinate mandibles black ; face and clypeus not sepa- 

 rated, closely punctate and densely white-pilose, the latter basally 

 foveate on either of its oblique 

 sides and apical ly transverse ; 

 former with the central carina 

 impressed at base and apex ; 

 vertex closely punctate, frons 

 glabrous and excavate, with a 

 central longitudinal acute carina, 

 obliquely inflexed and having on 

 either side another short basal 

 carina ; upper orbits elevated 

 and acutely carinate ; occiput 

 bordered. Antennae as long as 

 the body, black, with the two 

 basal and base of the third joints 

 p- g red, and the seventh to eleventh 



Hemigaster carinifrons, Cam. clear white. Thorax red, with 



the propleurae closely punctate, 



stoutly and obliquely strigose below; mesothorax closely punc- 

 tate, with the notauli narrow but distinct and the sternauli deeply 

 impressed, curved and crenulate ; mesopleurae obscurely strigose 

 above, with a central, crenulate sulcus, which is broadly black on 

 either side; cietanotum centrally glabrous, laterally closely punc- 

 tate, with its external and apical parts strigose; areae entirely 

 demarcated and clearly defined ; areola obliquely declivous basally, 

 carinate throughout and obliquely constricted apically, whence 

 two apically subdivergent carinae extend to the petiole; external 

 basal areae entire and broader than long ; dentiparal areae of about 

 the same size and centrally emarginate externally ; petiolar area 

 twice as long as broad; spiracular areae large, deeply and obliquely 

 impressed basally, l>roa<ler than long and separated from the ante- 

 rior by a stout carina ; apophyses large, foliaceous and transverse ; 

 ? piracies linear, oblique, narrow and rounded at both extremities; 

 metapleurse shagree.ned. Scutellum elevated, longer than broad, 

 closely puncia'H and infuscate-pilose, apically constricted, with its 

 sides anil apex stoutly carinate : postscutellum carinate laterally, 

 apically explanate and bicarinate vertically. Abdomen red and, 

 except the l>asal segment, closely punctate, with short and dense 

 wiiite pubescence; first segment basally smooth and constricted, 

 apically closely punctate, dilated and curved, laterally and 

 beneath and on the postpetiole bicarinate; three basal segments 

 large and subt-qual in length, remainder much shorter and decreas- 

 ing in length towards the anus. Legs subelongate ; anterior 

 testaceous, with the coxae broadly at the base above, and their 



