CAMPOPLEX. 461 



postscutellum deplanate, rugose and laterally carinate. Abdomen 

 red, with the basal segment except a lateral spot before its apex,, 

 second and third broadly above, and the remainder narrowly and not 

 entirely, black. Legs red, with all the coxae, posterior trochanters, 

 and hind femora broadly beneath, black ; anterior tibia? and tarsi 

 subflavidous ; hind tarsi blackish. Wings unicolorous infumate, 

 slightly violaceous; areolet not petiolate but with the lateral 

 nervures, of which the inner is straight and oblique and the outer 

 subsinuate, coalescent above. 



Lengtli 17-18 millim. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Roihney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



352. Campoplex confusus, Fdrst. 



Campoplex confusus, Forster, Verb. z.-b. Ges. 1868, p. 841 ; Holm- 

 gren, Bih. V.-A. Handl. 1872, p. 62; Bridgman & Fitch, 

 Entom. 1885, j>. 17 ; Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xi, p. 1072 (d ). 



Campoplex nursei, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1907, 

 p. 587 ($). 



d 2 A black species, with the legs mainly and the abdomen 

 partly red. Head: frons, face, clypeus and external orbits with 

 dense long silvery pubescence ; mandibles, except apically, and 

 palpi pale flavous and pilose ; face and clypeus closely and rugosely, 

 frons and vertex much more sparsely, punctate. Thorax stronglv 

 punctate, becoming reticulate at the base of the mesonotum and 

 striate before the scutellum ; metanotum closely punctate and 

 subtransversely striate, with no arete, but with a weak aud curved 

 transverse basal cariua, before which the punctation is obsolete ; 

 pleurae closely and strongly striate, with the meta- and part of the 

 meso-pleurae distinctly punctate. Scutellum convex, strongly and 

 closely punctate, substriate. Abdomen black, with a short apical 

 line on the second segment below and the remaining segments 

 (except irregularly above), rufescent : fourth and sixth segments 

 with larger discal black marks ; terebra 1 rnillim. in length. 

 Legs : front pair (except basal femoral lines), apices of inter- 

 mediate femora with their tibiae aud tarsi, and the hind tibiaa 

 (except sometimes apically), as well as all the calcaria, pale stra- 

 mineous. Wings clear hyaline, with the nervures and stigma 

 pale flavous ; areolet large, with its sides subcoalescerit above, 

 emitting the recurrent uervure from its centre. 



Length 12-15 millim. 



PUNJAB : Simla Hills, 7000 ft., v. 09 (N. Annandale) ; EAJPTJ- 

 TAKA : Mt. Abu (Col. flurse). EUHOPE. 



Type of C. nursei in Col. Nurse's collection. 



The flavous hind tibiae, which sometimes have a very small 

 black mark below and internally at their base and a broad brun- 

 neous apical mark extending to beyond the centre beneath, are 

 said to be characteristic of this species. I have carefully com- 

 pared the Indian type with the descriptions of C. confusus, and 



