CREMASTUS. 499 



Range. "World-wide. 



Cameron was of opinion that his genus belonged to the CAMPO- 

 'PLEGIDES, wherein he wished to place it near Zaporus, but it is 

 distinct from that tribe in its very short and nearly right-angled 

 .radial cell in the front wings, and the basally wanting median 

 nervure in the hind wings ; the latter feature is shared with the 

 POBIZONIDES, which differ in having a much shorter submarginal 

 nervure and the basal superiorly incrassate at the pterostigma. 

 Cameron's diagnosis of Paurolexis will be found to coincide very 

 well with that of Cremastus, Grav., as given by Thomson (Opusc. 

 Ent. xiv, p. 1441). 



Table of Species. 



1 (2) Ked ; metathoracic areola four times 



as long as broad pestifer, sp. n., p. 499. 



2 (1) Flavous ; areola at most twice as long 



as broad. 



3 (4) Second segment not aciculate ; abdo- 



men with black bands flavus, Cam., p. 500. 



4 (3) Second segment strongly aciculate; 



abdomen discally black no.riosus, sp. n., p. 501. 



392. Creniastus pestifer, sp. n. 



$ . A bright red species, with the head, thorax and part of the 

 abdomen, discally black. Head with the frons, vertex and occiput 

 centrally, and the rnandibular apices, black; frons and vertex 

 closely and finely punctate, scrobes large but not deeply impressed ; 

 face transverse and a little convex, with epistoma prominent 

 and the apically subtruncate clypeus basally strongly discrete. 

 Antennce as long as the body, very slender and black, with the 

 scape and flagellar base testaceous beneath. Thorax elongate and 

 deplanate, much longer than high, red, with three broad stripes 



on the finely and dis- 

 tinctly punctate meso- 

 notum, the frenum, 

 scutellar sulcus, and the 

 whole disc of the finely 

 sculptured metathorax, 

 black ; metanotal areas 

 very distinct ; basal areas 

 elongate and triangular ; 

 areola four times as long 

 as its width at the basal 

 fourth, whence the 

 strong costulae are emit- 

 ted, and not distinctly 

 discrete from the basally 

 acuminate and apically 



Fig . He. Cremastus pestifer, Mori. parallel - sided petiolar 



ST- area, which extends far 



above the hind coxas. Scutellum deplanate, red and finely punctate. 



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