EXOCniLUM. 413: 



I have seen two females of this species at Oxford, in "West- 

 wood's collection, captured in " India " by Boys ; and in the 

 British Museum is a nice series, taken in " India " by Baly in 

 1851 and "Northern India" by Captain Eeid in 1855. Its range 

 is probably wide, since Fortune took it at Shanghai in 1854 and 

 Bo wring at Hong-Kong in 1861. 



305. Exochilum diabolus, Mori. 



Exochilum diabolus, Morley, Rev. Ichn. Brit. Mus. ii, 1913, p. 7:>. 



$ . A very large, dull black, pilose species, with nitidulous 

 abdomen and blackish wings. Head nearly as broad as the thorax 

 and not very buccate behind the internally broadly emarginate 

 eyes; frons and vertex rugulose, with the former centrally 

 carinate and the occipital carina strong; face scabrously punctate, 

 centrally elevated, with the orbits and a line from antennae to epi- 

 stoma testaceous ; clypeus discrete, more sparsely punctate and 

 not apically elevated ; palpi, apices of mandibles, and the external 

 orbits in the centre, rufescent ; cheeks distinct. Antennce bright 

 fulvous (17 millim. in length), not slender, with the scape and 

 base of the laterally snbsinuate first flagellar joint black. Thorax 

 immaculate, short and stout, coarsely and scabrously punctate, 

 with the metanotum strongly rugose, and all the pleurae more 

 finely and evenly punctate; notauli discally very deeply impressed 

 but not creiiulate, apically subobsolete ; metanotum short, very 

 strongly subtransversely rugose and with long black tomentum, 

 laterally buccate basally, with the centre broadly, and at the apex 

 deeply, excavate and trans-strigose. Scutellum distinctly con- 

 vex, black, rugosely punctate and with long black tomentum, with 

 no lateral carinae. Abdomen discally linear, longer than twice the 

 head and thorax, nitidulous black, with the apices of the two 

 basal segments and the disc of the third obscurely badious ; basal 

 segment linear, glabrous and basally sulcate, with the spiracles 

 shortly before the apex ; terebra shorter than half the basal 

 segment, rufescent, with the valvula? black and apically suboblique. 

 Legs slender and strongly elongate, black, with the front ones 

 except basallv, and the intermediate femora, dull ferruginous ; 

 hind trochanfers, base of their tarsi and, more obscurely, of their 

 tibiae, dull castaneous ; basal hind tarsal joint 4 millim. in length, 

 the second H millim. ; claws small and not pectinate. Wings 

 unicolorous blackish throughout, with the nervures exactly as in 

 the last species. 



Length 26 millim. 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



The extremely dark wings render this fine species very con- 

 spicuous ; it is very closely allied to the Nearctic E. tenuipes, 

 jVort. (Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, 1863, p. 360). 



The type is labelled simply " India." 



