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ICHinSUMOHIDJS. 



This handsome species is extremely closely allied to E. manifes- 

 tntor, L., but the punctation of the head is finer, the clypeus red 

 and not apically produced, the metanotutn is more nitidulous and 

 punctate, with but obsolete carinae, the terebra is longer, and the 

 nervellus intercepts at a distinctly lower point. 



A male, found by W. Doherty in Tenasserim and now in the 

 Calcutta Museum, so exactly coincides with the type in every way 

 that, in spite of the very different locality, I have no hesitation in 

 associating them; the size of the sexes is, as I have already 

 mentioned, usually disproportionate in this genus, as is proved by 

 four males bred by Stebbing from some species of Clirysoboihrus in 

 deodar at Simla. 



125. Epbialtes tinctipennis, Cam. 



Ephialtes tinctipennis, Cameron,* Mauch. Mem. 1899, p. lol (tf). 



<S . An entirely black species, with only the anterior legs flavous. 

 Head deep black, with the frons and vertex smooth, shining 

 and sparsely infuscate-pilose ; orbits impressed and acutely 

 margined ; face strongly and uniformly punctate and, like the 

 clypeus, densely and elongately infuscate-pilose ; the latter smooth, 



centrally semicircularly im- 

 pressed and apically testa- 

 ceous ; mandibles black, palpi 

 testaceous. Antennae deep 

 black; scape somewhat strong- 

 ly punctate, with elongate pale 

 and dense pilosity ; fiagellum 

 entirely glabrous. Thorax 

 glabrous and nitidulous, with 

 the pro- and meso-pleurae 

 basally crenulate, and the 

 mesosternum finely punctate 

 and basally carinate ; meta- 

 notum strongly and uniformly 

 punctate, becoming laterally 

 substrigose ; petiolar area 

 wanting, semicircular and gla- 



Fig. 43.Epkialies tinctipennis, Cai 



brous ; metapleurae obsoletely 

 punctate, with a carina above 

 and below. /S'cutellum and 

 postscutellum immaculate ; the former sparsely and shallowly 

 punctate, with elongate pilosity ; the latter minutely punctate and 

 nitidulous. Abdomen entirely black, closely and strongly punc- 

 tate ; first segment with its basal fovea glabrous and its apex more 

 strongly punctate than the second segment. Legs fulvous ; the 

 hind ones black, with the exception of the rufesceut apices of the 

 trochanters and the extreme base of the femora ; hind calcaria 

 pale testaceous. Wittys hyaline and slightly f ulvescent ; stigma 



