SYZEUCTUS. 



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very slender and apically attenuate, 



the joints not 



Fig. 58. Syzeuctus annulipea, Cam. 



discrete ; scape and base of flagellum testaceous beneath. 



Thorax evenly, closely and not 

 very finely punctate; black, with 

 a hamate mark on either side 

 of mesonotum in front, small 

 callosities beneath all the 

 radices, and conspicuous spots 

 above the hind coxae, flavous ; 

 metathorax with no costae and 

 not strongly convex. Scutellum 



^___,_^ flavous, convex, with a few fine 



/* i ^yu\|f v ^i punctures. Abdomen almost 



I / fl\ I linear and very strongly de- 



planate to the apex of the third 

 segment ; the first three seg- 

 ments broadly flavous at the 

 base, the apices of the second 

 and third, together with the 

 compressed and clavate anus r 

 being also flavous ; basal seg- 

 ment glabrous and sublinear, 

 thrice as long as apically broad, 

 slightly curved laterally before 

 its apex, with the spiracles very 

 slightly before its centre ; terebra as long as the abdomen without 

 the basal segment, very slender and apically deflexed. Legs red, 

 anterior coxa) and trochanters flavous ; hind legs elongate, with 

 the base of their black tibia) and tarsi white ; hind femora 

 infuscate at apex, and their calcaria of unequal length. Wings 

 narrow and not large, hyaline, with a circular dot on the front 

 margin slightly before the apex conspicuously infumate ; radix 

 flavous, costa and stigma piceous ; areolet petiolate, not broader 

 than hiyh, longer than its petiole, and emitting the broadly pellucid 

 recurrent nervure from near its apex. 



The 3 differs slightly in having the whole face, cheeks, scape 

 beneath, prothorax and anterior margin of mesothorax, as well as 

 apex of fourth segment, flavous ; the antennae slightly longer and 

 abdomen more slender. 

 Length 7% millim. 



ASSAM : fchasi Hills, 1000-3000 ft., iii. 07 (Pusa coll.) ; BENGAL : 

 Pusa, xii. 05 (Pusa roll.), Chapra (Mackenzie), Adra, x. 09 and 

 Monghur, ix.09 (.7. T. JenkimInd. Mus.), Karmatar, x.09, and 

 Bhogaon, ix. 05 (C. Puiva Ind. Mus.), Calcutta (Ind. Mus.); 

 MADRAS : Mysore (Oxford Mus.), Teumalai, Travancore 

 (Annandale) ; CEYLON: Pundaluoya, ii.95(Z7. E. Green), Colombo, 

 xii. 04 (0. S. Wickivar), Peradeniya, xii. 07, and Madnlsima, v. US 

 (T. Bainbrigge Fletcher}. QUEENSLAND (Eowland Turner). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



