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Genus FINTONA, Cam. 

 Fintona, Cameron, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1909, p. 726. 



GENOTYPE, F. nigripalpis, Cam. 



The single female at present representing this genus is Cryptid 

 in facies, with a triangular areolet of normal size. The basal 

 segment is, however, distinctly sessile, as in Cryptopimpla, Tasch. 

 (Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 292), which it also resembles in its 

 short terebra; here the analogy terminates ; for the tarsi are dis- 

 tinctly pectinate and the flagellar joints cylindrical throughout. 

 It nevertheless undoubtedly belongs to the PIMPI/INJE, among 

 which the conformation of the areolet, claws, and thorax place it in 

 the BANCHLDES, though some resembance is exhibited toAlloplasta. 

 The pectinate claws, simple frons and clypeus, abdominal sculpture 

 and coloration will distinguish it in the present tribe. Its author, 

 however, places this genus (loc. cit.) in the CTEXOPELMINI tribe of 

 TnYpHo> r iKyE, remarking on its relationship with Eczetesis, Forst., 

 and its Ophionid facies. 



181. Fintona nigripalpis, Gam. 



Fintona n if/ ripalpis, Cameron,* Jouni. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1909, 

 p. 726 ($). 



$ . A dull, black species, with the abdomen and legs mainly 

 red. Head distinctly transverse and contracted behind the 

 prominent eyes, dull black and closely punctate, with a short 

 longitudinal sulcus before the central ocellus; face immaculate, 



broader than long and parallel- 

 sided, evenly punctate and 

 shortly white-pilose, with the 

 epistoma slightly elevated and 

 discrete from the convex pice- 

 ous and subtriangular clypeus ; 

 mandibles nearly parallel-sided, 

 apically curved and obtusely 

 bidentate, basally white above': 

 palpi stout and piceous, with 

 the joints submoniliform and 

 pilose. Antennae nearly as 

 long as the body, immaculate 

 black, with the basal flagellar 

 joints elongate and the apical 

 subsetaceous. Thorax dull 

 Fig. 64. Fintona nigripalpis, Cam. black and distinctly punctate 



throughout, with thepronotum 



somewhat broadly ochreous; notauli and sternauli entirely 

 wanting ; metathorax granulose and shortly pilose, with an obso- 

 lete longitudinal discal sulcus ; petiolar area very short, and 

 distinctly carinate basally ; spiracles small and circular, apophyses 



