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facial orbits flavous, constricted above ; frons and vertex glabrous 

 and nitidulous. Antennce black, piceous beneath. Thorax black, 

 with small callosities below radices flavous ; mesonotum closely 

 and evenly punctate; metapleurae deplanate, smooth and nitidulous; 

 petiolar area strongly trans-striate, remainder irregularly and 

 coarsely reticulate ; propleurse nitidulous and irregularly striate, 

 closely rugose above and apical ly ; mesopleurae closely and rugoseiy 

 punctate, apically smooth and shining, with their sulci broad 

 and deeply impressed. IScutellum subrugosely punctate, laterally 

 elevated and apically shortly produced on either side ; the apex 

 flavous, perpendicularly depressed and centrally carinate; the 

 basal impression transverse, with six stout longitudinal carinae, 

 the lateral ones flavous. Abdomen purplish ; basal segment 

 centrally elevated and with two flavous carinae, apically broadly 

 flavous ; second segment with an apical flavous mark on either 

 side ; the three following segments apically flavous, the sixth 

 elevated and apically subprominent, and the seventh small and 

 obliquely constricted towards its apex. Legs black, with white 

 pilosity ; apical half of front femora, the tibia?, and the tarsi pale 

 red ; the front calcaria pale red, the intermediate white, and the 

 hind ones black. Wings violaceo-infumate, with the base and 

 apex of their tegulae broadly flavous. 



Length 12| millim. 



SIKKIM: Darjiling. 



Cameron tells us (loc. cit.) that the antennae of the only 

 specimen he had seen were broken off before their centre. 



191. Cultrarius purpureotinctus, Cam. 



Cultrarius purpureotinctus, Cameron, Ann. Nat. Hist, xix, 1907. 

 P .176(c?). 



cJ . A black species, the head with flavous markings arid the 

 wings apically infuinate. Head with somewhat strong but not 

 very close punctation, that of the clypeus and apex of face 

 distinctly stronger and closer ; facial carinae laterally and more 

 narrowly above, and lower frontal orbits flavous ; occiput glabrous 

 and with dense white hairs. Antennas with the flagellum piceous, 

 and the scape flavous, beneath. Thorax : pro- and meso- thorax 

 strongly and closely punctate, with their pleurae more coarsely so ; 

 mesopleural sulci broad and deeply impressed ; areola shagreened 

 and hexagonal, distinctly longer than basally broad, with its apical 

 half constricted and the truncate apex but half the width of the 

 base, whence a central carina extends longitudinally throughout 

 its disc ; lateral areae broader than long, apically broadly rounded 

 and substriate, with a few large central punctures ; petiolar area 

 closely and rugoseiy punctate ; metapleurae strongly and coarsely 

 punctate. Scutellum very strongly and evenly punctate, its basal 

 impression broad, deep, and with five carinae ; its apical declivity 

 apically aciculate, lateral teeth large and triangular ; postscutellum 

 with dense long white hairs. Abdomen closely and densely punc- 



