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beyond the single submarginal nervure; first recurrent of hind 

 wings subopposite and emitting the apically curved nervellus from 

 its exact centre. 



Length 13 millim. 



NICOBAR ISLANDS (Col. C. T. Binyhain). 



TI/IX in the British Museum. 



This species is probably referable to Forster's subgenus 

 Chorischizus : the specimen I have examined possesses a curious 

 malformation of the inner right hind tarsal claw, which is 

 strongly constricted centrally, and thence cleft into two branches, 

 superficially resembling the bifid anterior claws ; the left is 

 normal. 



11. Acamitus alecto, sp. n. 



rf . A handsome black species, with black antenna and body, 

 uniformly clouded wings, and pale legs. Head stout, with the 

 distinctly bordered occiput as broad as the internally entire eyes ; 

 frons smooth and dull, with distinct irregular punctures, finely 

 and obsoletely carinate only between the small scrobes ; face 



Fig. 8.Acesnitus alecto, Mori. 



large, closely, strongly and evenly punctate, and, like the mouth, 

 cheeks, and orbits to above scrobes, flavous ; clypeus glabrous, 

 impressed throughout its apex, imperfectly separated by a circular 

 fovea on either side; mandibles with the black apical teeth of 

 equal length and their base not broader than the length of the 

 cheeks. Antenna fully as long as the body ; flagellum 34-jointed, 

 filiform and becoming a little attenuated apically, with the apices 

 of all the joints subnodulose; black, with the scape flavous 

 beneath and variegated above. Thorax black, unevenly punctate, 

 with short white pilosity ; mesonotum somewhat dull, with its 

 notauli deeply impressed and their central lobe vertical ; meta- 

 thorax strongly costate, with the areola small and exactly 



