TANERA. 57 



then it would coine in near Atropha" says Cameron, in erecting 

 this genus ; but the possibility of its belonging to the ACJENITIDES 

 does not appear to have occurred to him at all. 1 am, however, 

 very strongly of opinion, from an examination of both the 

 description and the figure of the typical species, that this is its 

 most natural position, on account of the tapering petiole and 

 elongate coxa3, though no mention is made of the anal conforma- 

 tion ; there it appears so closely allied to the new Australian 

 genus Leptobatopsis, Aslim. (op. cif. 1900, p. 47) as to be separable 

 only by its simple tarsal claws. 



2\.. Tanera annulipes, Cam. 



Tanera annulipes, Cameron. Spolia Zeylanica, 1905, p. 141, pi. ]J. 

 %.!!($). 



A smooth and shining black species, with flavous markings. 

 Head black, with the clypeus, mandibles, palpi, a genal mark, the 

 inner orbits throughout but more broadly above, flavous. Antennce 

 immaculate. Thoraa with the pronotum centrally, the radical 

 callosities and the apices of the metapleurse, flavous ; all the 

 pleurae closely and strongly punctate ; metanotum closely and 

 strongly, though somewhat more coarsely, punctate. Scutellwn 

 flavous. Abdomen with the basal third of the first three segments, 

 the apex of the third more narrowly, and the aims, flavous ; 

 terebra longer than half the body (5 millim.). Legs rufescent, 

 with the anterior coxa? and trochanters flavescent ; hind tibiae 

 and tarsi infuscate, with a rufescent tinge, and their bases white. 

 Wings hyaline, with the radial and outer cubital cells apically 

 inf umate ; tegulae flavous and the stigma infuscate. 



Length 8 millim. 



CEYLON : Hatton (E. E. Green). 



The figure (Zoc. cit.) shows that the vertical orbits are also pale ; 

 the notauli wanting ; the abdomen very narrow discally to its 

 centre and broadest shortly before its apex ; the hind femora not 

 slender ; the radius curved towards its apex, but not above the 

 distinctly sessile (sic) areolet ; the nervellus appears to be emitted 

 at, or but slightly above, the first recurrent of the hind wing, 

 which is figured as postfurcal. 



Tribe XORIDIDES. 



This tribe follows the CRYPTLN^, to which it is perhaps even 

 more closely related than are the preceding, in natural sequence ; 

 in fact it is difficult to determine where one begins and the other 

 terminates. Thus the more typical genera are very easily 

 recognised by their cubical head, curiously reticulate exo-skeleton 

 and entire lack of an areolet. But in Echthrus the areolet is pen- 

 tagonal and entire, and the abdomen petiolate as in Xyloplirurus ; 



