236 ICIINKIMOMD;E. 



abnormally large. Head very finely punctate, with pale pubes- 

 cence ; occiput and vertex black, with only the orbits broadly 

 flavous, frons centrally black to the antennae ; the convex face and 

 subdiscrete clypeus immaculate flavous ; mandibles flavous, with 

 the subequal apical teeth piceous. Antennae about as long as body, 

 filiform and apically subattenuate ; fulvous, becoming basally 

 infuscate above and flavous beneath. TJioraxnoi elongate, closely 

 and not very finely or evenly punctate, with pale pilosity ; 

 flavous, with mesopleural lines at both extremities and coalescing 

 below radices, mesonotum and frenuin (except hamate lines on 

 former which coalesce in a discal spot), and the metanotum 

 triangularly on either side, black ; notauli wanting; metathorax 

 entirely without costae and its spiracles transverse, elongate and 

 not large, ticutellum and postscutellum immaculate. Abdomen 

 black, linear and subglabrous, with the base of the first and 

 apices ot all the segments narrowly flavous ; three basal segments 

 distinctly elongate, first glabrous and not impressed, the following 

 very finely punctate ; anus red ; spiracles of the third segment 

 large, of the following gigantic, cavernous and quite circular. Legs 

 elender and flavous, with the hind femora fulvous and the inter- 

 mediate piceous-lined above ; hind coxae internally only and the 

 base of their trochaoters black, their tarsi immaculate fulvidous. 

 Wings hyaline throughout, with the stigma and nervures fulvous, 

 radix and tegulte flavous ; areolet about as long as its petiole, with 

 the outer nervure cuned and subpellucid below; nervellus not 

 strong, intercepting the nearly straight first recurrent of hind 

 wings slightly below its centre. 



Length 9 milliin. 



PUNJAB: Simla, viii. 98 (Col. Nurse, type); MADRAS: Madras 

 W.Elliott)', CEYLON: Heneratgoda (Brit. Mus.). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



This species exactly resembles S. zanthorius in outline and is 

 very similar in the colour-scheme, but the unclouded alar apices 

 and the extremely remarkable conformation of the abdominal 

 spiracles, which are so large that at first I suspected some para- 

 sites had emerged from the perfect insect, though their regularity 

 precludes any such assumption, render it abundantly distinct. 



167. Syzeuctus annulipes, Cam. 



MesoU-ptits anmdipes, Cameron, Manch. Mein. 1900, p. 103 ( <5 ). 



$ . A small slender black species, with profuse flavous markings, 

 the legs mainly red and the wings apically infumate. Head black 

 and abruptly declivous behind the entire and internally parallel 

 eyes ; occiput vertical, not emarginate, and glabrous, like the 

 laterally flavous frons ; scrobes small and not centrally carinate ; 

 face quadrate, closely and evenly punctate, centrally pro- 

 minent and laterally narrowly flavescent ; clypeus convex, 

 subglabrous and, with mandibles and palpi, flavous. Antenna; 



