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testaceous, and the basal flagellar joint distinctly longer than the 

 second. TJiorax with mesonotum strongly and irregularly rugose, 

 closely and strongly punctate laterally ; metanotum smooth, with 

 a network of very strong carinse, more distinct on the basal than 

 ou the apical slope ; the base bordered by a keel and with a small 

 area, longer than broad and of equal width in the centre ; pro- 

 pleurae glabrous and apically stoutly striate; mesopleurae smooth 

 with rugulose carinse and above strongly, subobliquely striate ; 

 metapleurae rugulose and irregularly reticulate. Scutellum more 

 broadly and irregularly reticulate than mesonotum, and laterally 

 stoutly carinate ; its basal fovea large, broad and deeply impressed. 

 Abdomen glabrous and nitidulous, with the two basal segments as 

 long as the head and thorax, the first shorter than second and 

 apically dilated ; terebra as long as second segment. Legs : 

 anterior pair iufuscate testaceous ; the hind ones black, with their 

 tarsi longer than the tibiae, slender and very finely spinulose, 

 their claws minute ; calcaria normal and of equal length. Wings 

 hyaline, with their apices subinfumate, and the nervures and 

 stigma black ; basal nervure continuous through the median ; 

 internal cubital nervure roundly curved ; third discoidal cell 

 basally more than half its apical breadth ; nervellus not 

 intercepted. 



Length 7-9 millim. 



CEYLON : Peradeniya, vi., vii. and ix. 09, ii. 10 (E. E. Green). 



In my copy of Cameron's paper, the name reticulatus is erased 

 and " varistriatiis " substituted in MS. Cameron owns to 

 ignorance of the genus Nototractiys, but considers the present 

 species to agree well with the description of authors. His 

 position of it is so correct that at first I was puzzled to separate 

 it from N. foliator, but the face is subglabrous, the metanotum 

 and mesopleurae strongly and regularly reticulate, with the inter- 

 stices glabrous and nitidulous, and the latter are strongly and 

 regularly strigose above, the tarsi are longer than the tibiae, the 

 orbits immaculate, and all red coloration is wanting. 



Tribe ANOMALIDES. 



This tribe is one of the most distinctive among the ICHNETT- 

 MONID^E, and few of its members can be mistaken for those of auy 

 other section. Exceptions occur, however, as in most of our arti- 

 ficial divisions ; thus the NOTOTBACHIDES are very similar in their 

 abdominal conformation and scabrous sculpture, though at once 

 known by the unicalcarate intermediate tibiae; my new genus 

 Metanomalon is aberrant wherever placed, and connects the present 

 tribe with the CAMPOPLEGJDES, by the possession of a more or 

 less complete areolet; and Cameron here placed his genus 

 Tarytia, though I am convinced of its Cremastid affinities upon 

 examining the types. Little difficulty should, however, be ex- 

 perienced in recognising the ANOMALIDES if account be taken of 



