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KAMI I. Y cRYPTIO/E. 



J59. Ckvi'iis \ 11)1 Ai.ikii -> /l?/;/. Length of l)od>, with ovipositor, 

 5V4 hncs ; do, withoui ovipositor, 3)4 hnes. One specimen taken in 

 Lat. 54^ 



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Jjod) blu k. Head subtruni^ular, transverse, very minutely and 

 thickly punctured ; palpi j)alo rufous ; face plane with two elevations in 

 the middle ; eves large, oval ; antenme shorter than the trunk, rather 

 slender. in\olutc, bla« k with a white hand in the n.nldle : orbit of the 

 eyes behind with .1 very indistinct white line ; trunk oblong, lubical, gib- 

 bous, very thickly and conflucnlly punctured except on the back ; tegulse 

 white : nietathorax armed with two minute teeth on each side, one in the 

 middle and the other at the l)ase, forming the terminal angle, marked out 

 into three areas by elevated lines : legs red with coxa;, trochanters, and 

 posterior tarsi black : wings subtestaceous with the larger nervures black ; 

 abdomen, excluding the ovipositor, scarcely so long as the trunk ; first 

 segment impunctured, glossy, dilated at the apex, vvhich is subquad- 

 rangular ; footstalk flat : second and third segments very large, with their 

 gloss obscured by infmitcly uiinute punctures ; ovipositor shorter than the 

 abdomen ; borer red. 



I 260.] GhNU.S CRVPTOCENTRUM. 



Head between transverse ajid globose ; face quadrangular, with the 

 anterior margin crenate ; [)alpi long, filiform; antennae slender, first joint 

 thick ; second mmute ; third longer than the rest : trunk ovate-oblong, 

 subcompressed . neck moderately long ; scutellum * trapezoidal ; legs 

 .slender, posterior pair elongated ; upper wings-apical areolets three ; 

 middle lour, viz.. 2, 2, without a cellule: ba.silar three; under wings- 

 areolcts seven, vi/.. 4. 3 ; abdomen sessile, smooth, subcompressed, in 

 the female clubbed at the apex ; four first .segments longer than the rest, 

 the first (uirved, rather wider at the apex ; the three next are wider than 

 long, the last is minute and triangular ; at the extremity the tail is cleft 

 for the pa.ssage of the ovi[»ositor ; this cleft is formed by the turning up 

 of the sides of the last ventral segment ; ovipositor very short ; the four 

 last ventral segments, at least in the dead insect, project so as to form an 

 elevated ridge in which the ovipositor is concealed. 



360. Crvptocentru.m i.ineolatum Kirby. — Plate vi., fig. i. — Length 

 of body 6 lines. A single specimen taken in l^t. 65°. 



