CHAROPS. 437 



einarginate ; frons and face deplanate ; clypeus not discrete, apically 

 margined and broadly rounded; cheeks as long as base of the flavous 

 and apically equidentate mandibles ; 

 palpi flavous. Antennce with the 

 scrobes circular, cai-inate and far 

 apart ; black and filiform, becoming 

 hardly attenuate apicaily, extending 

 barely to the apex of the postpetiole ; 

 scape black. Thorax immaculate 

 and scabrous, with the mesonotum 

 subpunctate and anteriorly abruptly 

 declivous ; notauli very obsolete ; 

 metanotum with long hairs and 

 discally bicarinate from base to 

 apex ; pleurae closely reticulate, with 

 the metapleurae not strigose ; 

 Fig. 124. C%rtr0psoWsM, Mori, spiracles large, elongate and trans- 

 verse. Setitellum broader than 



long, deplanate, scabrous, pilose, black, with its apex very broadly 

 rounded. Abdomen strongly compressed from the second segment, 

 black ; in $ with the petiole, anus and whole of second to fourth 

 segments extremely dark ferruginous, almost black ; in c? with 

 segments three to live only laterally red ; basal segment linear to 

 beyond its apical third and thence exactly fusiform to apex, longer 

 than second ; terebra as long as the second segment, apically 

 subclavate. Legs of $ pale ochreous and of rf stramineous, not 

 elongate, with all the coxae, except apices of front ones, black ; 

 hind legs with the femora and tarsi entirely, tibiae (except at 

 base), basal joint of trochanters and centre of intermediate femora, 

 black : calcaria stout and three-quarters the length of the meta- 

 tarsi. Winys hyaline, with the tegula? and radix pale testaceous, 

 the costa and stigma blackish ; submarginal nearly as long as the 

 second recurrent nervure, and nearly as far from it ; first discoidal 

 cell somewhat narrow and evenly curved above, with its lower 

 external angle subobtuse; basal nervure not continuous: hind 

 wing with only the basal abscissa of the radius present, the median 

 nervure extending to it by means of the first recurrent, and the 

 posterior nervure present as far as the strong nervellus ; nervellus 

 flubgeniculate slightly below its centre but not intercepted. 

 Length 8^ millim. 

 Type in the Pusa collection. 



UNITED PROVINCES : Mussoori, 7000 ft., vi. 05 (E. Brunetti 

 Ind. Mus.) ; ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Brit. Mas.) ; BENGAL : Calcutta 

 (Lid. Mus.) ; BOMBAY : Surat, xi. 03 (Pusa coll., type), Poona 

 (Capt. Doivnes}-, MADRAS: Madras (Pusa coll.); CEYLON (Dr. 

 Thwaites, Col. Yerbury); BURMA: Pegu, viii.87, and Karen Hills, 

 3000-3700 ft., vi. 88 (L. Fea Genoa Mus.). 



This species is so similar to G. decipiens that I have some 

 hesitation in bringing it forward as new ; but the abdominal 

 coloration, the very distinctly more gradually constricted apex of 



