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underside of scape, the tegulae aud the very short legs, flavescent. 

 Jfead hardly transverse and somewhat broadly rounded behind the 

 internally slightly emarginate eyes ; occiput broadly ernarginate 

 and not bordered ; vertex strongly nitidulous, somewhat broad, 

 obsoletely and very sparsely punctate ; scrobes distinct ; face 

 evenly protuberant throughout, shining and distinctly punctate, 

 with sparse grey pilosity : mandibles and the concave clypeus 

 piceous. Antennas filiform and somewhat shorter than half the 

 body; of rf rufo-ferruginous throughout, of $ black or nigrescent, 

 with the three or four apical joints entirely rufescent and, in 

 both sexes, the scape tlavous beneath. Thorax immaculate, dis- 

 cally deplanate and cylindrical, with the mesonotum obsoletely 

 punctate and nitidulous, and the metanotum strongly punctate 

 and closely white-pilose ; area? of metathorax entirely wanting, 

 its apex glabrous, with deeply impressed lateral fovea3 ; lateral 

 carinse distinct and the spiracles subcircular. Sciitdlum deplanate, 

 immaculate aud somewhat strongly but not closely punctate. 

 Abdomen strongly elongate, linear, exactly thrice the length of 

 the head and thorax, all the segments dull and closely punctate 

 and pilose, with their apices laterally constricted and apically 

 nitidulous ; basal segment double the length of its apical breadth, 

 gradually a little dilated throughout and, in $ , a little longer 

 than the short and subquadrate sixth ; venter ochraceous and 

 indefinitely plicate ; terebra very slightly longer (18 millim.) than 

 the abdomen (16 millim.), with the valvulae slender, black and 

 pilose. Legs peculiarly short and somewhat stout ; the anterior 

 testaceous, with the coxae and trochanters paler; the hind ones 

 fulvous, with apices of tibiae and the claws infuscate; the latter 

 basally lobate in the $ . Winys narrow and hyaline, with the 

 stigma blackish ; areolet sessile and broadly triangular ; basal 

 nervure continuous through the median ; nervellus distinctly a 

 little postfurcal and intercepted above its centre. 



Length, 3 17, $ 20 millim. 



BURMA : Bhamo, vii. 86, aud Karen Hills, 3000-3700 ft, 

 (L. Fea). 



Types in the Genoa Museum. 



The strongly elongate abdomen and short legs are distinctive of 

 this species. 



The foregoing description is drawn from a single pair. 



123. Ephialtes crassus, sp. n. 



5 . A black species, with pale stigma and very distinct tubercles. 

 Head black, with the palpi testaceous and the clypeus immaculate; 

 vertex broad and strongly nitidulous. with a few fine and scattered 

 punctures ; occiput broad, bordered and hardly emarginate ; face 

 nitidulous and convex, with strong and close punctures ; clypeus 

 semicircularly impressed centrally, and not produced on either 

 side ; mandibles stout. Antenna filiform and obsoletely pilose 



