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liiiid femora not incrassate and without any lobe or toothy 

 hind tibiae not arched. 



? . — Black, with the wings very dark fuliginous, very 

 brilliantly purple throughout ; face black_, clypens strongly 

 punctured, with a. median carina; a strong keel extending 

 from middle ocellus to level of antennae ; hind tibiae very 

 short and thick ; second s.m. in both sexes short. 



Hub. Sigiri, N.W. India, March 1910 {E. Comber). One 

 male (tyi)e) and two females in British Museum. 



This agrees with X. amethystina as defined by Bingham, 

 except in the colour of the hair of the male, the paler wings 

 of that sex ; and in the female the more carinate clypeus 

 and front. Bingham's amethystina is presumably the species 

 of Fabricius, but it is not the amethystina of Lepeletier, 

 which has quite different hind legs in the male. Bingham 

 wrongly places minuta, Lepeletier, as a synonym of amethys- 

 tina, it really belongs to X. cyanescens. X. i(/nita, Smith, 

 based on a female, is doubtless omithystina. In the female 

 this species exactly imitates Antliophura vio/acea, Lepeletier, 

 which was taken by Mr. Comber at Karachi, N.\A'. India. 



Cvocisa takaoais, sp. n. 



Black, with white markings ; in size and appearance 

 exactly like C. ramosa, Lep., but differing as follows : 

 scutellum Avith a white apical hair-patch, as well as white 

 hair projecting from beneath ; apical plate of abdomen 

 strongly keeled ; mesothorax and scutellum more finely 

 punctured ; white L on each side of first abdominal segment 

 thicker, its inner angle rounded. By having the third 

 antennal joint in the female equal to the fourth, and a j)atch 

 of hair at apex of scutellum, C tikaonis resembles C. affinis, 

 Mor., but the male antennae are not unusually short or 

 tliickjthe flagellar joints being, as usual, longer than broad. 

 The hind femora of the male have rounded compressed lobes 

 beneath, but are not dentate. The wings are very dark; 

 the lower part of the pleura is black, with a white spot. 



Hab. Takao, Formosa, two of each sex {Sauter). Berlin 

 Museum. The dates of captuie are Oct. 11 and 30, Nov. 2 

 and Dec. 1, 1907. 



A Crocisa from Foochow, China (H. B. Caldwell), is be- 

 tween this species and C. ramosa. Like ramosa, it lacks the 

 white hair-patch on the scutellum ; tlie apical plate of the 

 abdomen has a weak keel; the mesothorax and scutellum 

 are punctured as in takaonis, but the second abdominal 

 segment is less closely punctured ; white markings on first 



