422 



314. Anomalon decorum, Cam. 



Anomulon decorum, Cameron, Mancb. Mem. 1897, p. 24 ($ ). 



$ . Head nitidulous and with sparse white pubescence, flavous,. 

 with the vertex broadly in its centre, occiput (except laterally), 

 and extreme apices of mandibles, black ; eyes strongly convergent, 

 and not further apart than double the width of the scape, apically. 

 Antennas (broken) with the scape flavidous beneath. Thorax black, 

 with the pronotmn broadly, and the radical callosities, flavous ; 

 mesonotum dull, with its central lobe elevated ; metanotum 

 and metapleura? reticulate; pro- and meso-pleura? longitudinally 

 striolate, more closely above. Scutellum flavous. Abdomen testa- 

 ceous beneath ; basal segment black, glabrous and nitidulous, 

 with its apical third widened and the disc elongately impressed ; 

 terebra 3 millim. in length. Leys', anterior pairs, and all the 

 coxa? and trochanters, flavous ; [?hind] tibia? and femora infuscate 

 beneath, and the tarsi apically black. Wings hyaline, extending 

 to centre of abdomen ; tegulse flavous. 



Length 10 millim. 



CEYLON : Trincomali (Col. Yerlury). 



315. Anomalon tinctipenne, Cum. 



Anomalon tinctipenne, Cameron,* Munch. Mem. 1899, p. 112 ( $) - r 

 cf. Ann. Nat. Hist, xx, 1907, p. 14. 



$ . Head black, with the face, clypeus, frontal (subinterrupted 

 from vertical) orbits, external orbits narrowly, mandibles (except 

 their teeth), and palpi, flavous; frous stoutly and obliquely striate 

 laterally, more feebly and subreticulately in the centre ; epistoma 

 circularly prominent, with long white pubescence and large 

 isolated punctures ; clypeus impressed centrally and glabrous at 

 its apex, sparsely punctate at its base. Anteniw clear red, with 

 basal half of the flagellum darker ; scape with dense long pale 

 pilositv, flavidous above. Thorax immaculate ; mesonotum 

 punctate, laterally more sparsely and basally subreticulate, with 

 its central lobe elevated and the disc subcanaliculate : metathorax 

 strongly reticulate, with dark hairs basally and laterally ; pro- 

 pleura? basally aciculate, striolate central!}' above and below ; 

 mesopleurae irregularly reticulate basally and above, closely 

 punctate below and centrally subglabrous, with their apices 

 impressed and crenulate ; metapleura? basally glabrous, apically 

 hordered above the isolated punctures, and stoutly striate below. 

 Scutellum flavous, submarginate and strongly punctate laterally, 

 depressed discally, with its sides centrally red. Abdomen ferru- 

 ginous, with the second segment discally black and the basal 

 centrally infuscate. Legs pale fulvous, with the anterior 

 trochanters flavidous ; hind legs dark ferruginous, with apices 

 of their tibia? very broadly black and of their tarsi subflavidoua. 

 Wings hyaline with a dark fulvous tinge, the stigma dark fulvous ; 

 transverse cubital nervure shorter tban the basal cubital abscissa. 

 Length 22 millim. 



