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n<ih'c(us Japoiiic}iSf Dalla Torre. 



Smitli doscribctl tlio nialo under the jirooccupied name 

 //. tarsatua. I found tlie female in tlic British Museum 

 collection, and, as Vachal himself .sui,^:^osted, it appears to ho 

 the same as //. t(rniolclli(S, Vachal, which may he safely 

 regarded as a synonym. 



ILilictus suhopctcus, Smith. 



Soochow, China (.V. Gist Gee, 118, 119). 



Another species of the type of //. basicirus, from which it 

 is known by the dullish and closely punctured first abdominal 

 segment. 



IlaUcfns poouai'nsis, n. n. 



Halicttis torridus, Cameiou, 1898 (not Smith, 1879). 



Poona, India. 



llaliclus nusa'ensis, Frieso, in litf., l'.U4. 

 Halii'tus tiii/roviridig, Fiieso, 1914 (not Gmeuicbei) 

 Java. 



Hidiclus li't/anti, sp. n. 



? . — Length about S mm. ; anterior wing 6 mm. 



Hlack, robust, with unusually broad abtlomen, the sides of 

 which are paralKl except at the ends ; hair of head and 

 thorax scanty, dull white, the postscutellum with wliito 

 tomcntuni ; head ordiiuiry j mandiljlcs only faintly reddish at. 

 apex ; face thinly covered with pale hair; elypeus with weak 

 shallow punctures, the subapical middle depressed ; front 

 dull, vertex shining ; flagellum very faintly brownish 

 beneath ; mesothorax shining but not highly polished (the 

 surface being microscopically tessellati'), with small sparse 

 punctures ; scutellum more polished, slightly bigibbous ; 

 mesopleura almost entirely opaque ; area of metathorax 

 s!iort, with veiy distinct plicai on its basal part ; jjosterior 

 truncation shining, in)[»unctate, sharply n)argined at sides ; 

 teguko black, dark reddisin in midtlle. Wings dusky ; 

 nervures and stigma dark fuscous. Legs bhick, with pale 

 hair, fuscous baiuls on outer side of middle and liind tibiji? ; 

 hind spur with three very large obtuse s{)ines. Abdomen 

 shilling, but the surface minutely lineolate, and with exces- 

 sively minute punctures scattereil all over ; has s of segmeuls 

 with dull white hair, conspicuous and dense at sides of 

 second ; hind margins black ; segmenta 3 and 4 with rather 

 obscure subapical hair-bands. 



