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centrally deplanate and rugose, except at base ; gastrocoeli 

 isti'amineous ; four apical segments with dense white hair. Legs 

 flavous, with the anterior tarsi blackish ; hind legs fulvous, with 

 the coxae apically above, the trochanterellus above, apex of femora, 

 nearly the apical half of tibia? and the two apical tarsal joints, 

 black. Wings hyaline. 



Length 12 millim. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Rothney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



Genus HYPOCRYPTUS, Font. 

 Hypocryplus, Forster, Verh. pr. Rheinl. 1868, p. 198. 

 GENOTYPE, Mesoleptus testaceicornis, Brischke. 



Head transverse and posteriorly narrower than the eyes ; 

 clypeus impressed at apex and feebly rounded, basally not dis- 

 crete; face not apically constricted; eyes convex and prominent; 

 cheeks distinct and punctate. Antennae slender and longer than 

 the body ; flagellum not incrassate. Mesonotum alutaceous and 

 h'nely punctate; inetuthorax with complete areae and circular 

 spiracles. Scutellum alutaceous and finely punctate. Abdomen 

 distinctly petiolate with the central segments not twice as broad 

 as long, though transverse ; postpetiole laterally carinate ; terebra 

 reaching apex of abdomen. Legs slender ; hind femora not in- 

 crassate ; apical hind tarsal joint distinctly shorter than the third; 

 claws simple. Areolet entire and triangular. Body slender. 



Range. Germany, Bengal. 



The triangular areolet and very short terebra place the follow- 

 ing species in the TRYPIIONINJE, though the general facies proclaim 

 it to bear strong affinity with the Cryptid genus Hemiteles, and 

 the structure of the legs is almost identical with that of H. cingu- 

 lator, Grav. I have adopted the above genus for its reception 

 with some hesitation, since Forster indicates no type, and it has 

 hitherto only been used by Brischke (Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1892, 

 p. 337) for the c? of his Mesoleptus testaceicornis, from Germany, 

 which I do not know. 



223. Hypocryptus cingulator, sp. n. 



5 . A small black Hemiteloid species, with the legs and centre 

 of abdomen red. Head black and as broad as thorax, posteriorly 

 broadly rounded and hardly narrowed behind the small and in- 

 ternally entire eyes ; occiput bordered below ; vertex pilose, finely 

 punctate and not emargiuate ; frons and face subconvex, and 

 evenly punctulate throughout; clypeus more sparsely punc- 

 tate, obsoletely discrete and transversely impressed before 

 its subtruncate apex ; mandibles strong and rufescent, deeply 

 punctate, with the lower tooth a little the longer. Antenna; 



