CAMPOPLEX. ZACHRESTA. 465 



From the figure of the areolet it would appear most closely 

 allied, in this respect, to Campoplex sumptuosus. 



So many European species occur in Kashmir, that the present 

 is probably no more than a synonym of some well-known insect. 



358. Campoplex speciosus, Cam. 



Campoplex speciosus, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1897, p. 27 (? cJ ). 



Head black, closely and uniformly punctate, with dense silvery 

 pubescence ; mandibles flavous, with piceous teeth. Antennae 

 entirely black and longer than the body. Thorax immaculate, 

 closely punctate, with dense and short white pubescence ; rneso- 

 notuin longitudinally sulcate centrally ; the metathorax " in the 

 middle, in the part below the triangular keel, is irregularly striated ; 

 the apex with the striae more apart, and it is more shining " ; 

 mesopleurse more sparsely punctate. Abdomen black, with the 

 third to fifth segments entirely red. Legs black ; front coxae and 

 trochanters entirely, the intermediate ones partly, and the anterior 

 femora beneath, bright flavous ; front tibiae and tarsi entirely, 

 and the intermediate tibia? in front, stramineous ; calcaria white, 

 coxae with silvery pubescence. Wings clear hyaline, Avith the 

 costa and nervures black. 



Length 12 inillim. 



CEYLON. 



This species, whose sex is not intimated, is said by its author to 

 be very closely allied to C. buddha, but to differ in the large and 

 clearly defined basal triangular metanotal carina. 



Genus ZACHRESTA, Forst. 

 Zachresta, Forster, Verb. pr. Rheinl. 1868, p. 161. 



GENOTYPE, Z. insignis, "Woldst. 



This genus is very closely allied to Campoplex, but may be 

 recognised from the remainder of the CAMPOPLEGIDES by the 

 following characters. Notauli obsolete or wanting; metanotum 

 not declivous throughout, nor with its apex produced above the 

 hind coxae; metathoracic spiracles elongate and not circular; 

 scutellum not acutely carinate laterally ; abdomen not compressed 

 so soon as at the second segment ; its postpetiole distinctly dilated ; 

 tibial calcaria distinctly shorter than the metatarsus ; hind tarsi 

 not dilated ; areolet entire. 



Range. United States, Eussia, Sikkim. 



359. Zachresta nigromaculata, Cam. 



Zachresta nigromaculata, Cameron, Ann. Nat. Hist, xx, 1907, 



p. 13(2)-' 



5 . A flavous species, with very profuse black markings. Head 

 closely and somewhat strongly punctate, flavous and with white 

 pubescence, the ocelli, and a large central occipital mark gradually 



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