UAIIYLYPA. 415 



Unfortunately I have seen but a single example of this very 

 remarkable insect, and that in so bad a condition that I am 

 unable to determine the sex. 



Genus BARYLYPA, Font. 

 Barylypa, Fiirster, Verb. pr. Rheinl. 1868, p. 146. 



GENOTYPE, Anomalon perspieillator, Grav. 



Clypeus anteriorly rounded and not centrally produced ; labruni 

 not prominent. Tarsal claws not pectinate ; hind femora simple. 

 Areolet wanting ; second recurrent continuous with submarginal 

 nervure ; first abscissa of cubital nervure obsolete or wanting ; 

 basal length of third discoidal cell not as broad as length of 

 transverse median nervure ; nervellus distinctly geniculate. 



Rancje. Pal tear ctic Eegion. 



This genus had simply been utilised as a subdivision of Anomalon 

 up to 1901 ; but in 1906 several species were assigned to it from 

 British India, since Ashmead had brought it into some prominence 

 during 1.900. Thomson (Opusc. Ent. xvi, p. 1766) differentiates 

 it from Tricliomma by its glabrous eyes, and from Agrypon by the 

 second recurrent being continuous with the submarginal nervure 

 and the nervellus being distinctly geniculate. 



Cameron has constructed (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1906, 

 p. 280) a mere colour chart of his five species, which may be of 

 use and is given below ; but something more than colour is 

 necessary and a table, drawn from the type specimens in Colonel 

 Nurse's collection, is appended. 



1 (4) The greater part of the head, thorax arid apex 

 of abdomen black. 



"2 (3) Large (15 millim.), the pleurae yellow, black 

 above, the flagellum of anteuute rufous, the 

 basal two segments of abdomen rufous pilosella. 



3j(2) Small (9 millim.), the pleurae black, with 3 

 yellow marks, the antennte black, the basal 

 2 segments of abdomen for the greater part 

 black interstitialis. 



4 (1) The greater part of the body rufous. 



o (6) The mesoiiotuni and base of metanotum maculate 



with black variornata. 



6 (5) The mesonotum and metanotum not maculate 



with black. 



7 (8) Large (16 millim.), the mesonotum yelloAv, with 



three rufous lines ; mesopleurse yellow, rufous 



above and below rufo-lineata. 



8 (7) Small (8 millim.), the mesonotum rufous, yellow 



laterally at the base; niesopleurre rufous, with 



two yellow marks erythrocera." 



