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hyaline, the apex with a smoky cloud ; the areolet shorter than the pedicle, 

 triangular ; the recurrent nervure received at the apex. $?• 



Length 12 mm. : terebra 10 mm. 



Quetta. July. 



Antennae rufous, the scape yellow below ; the basal joints of the 

 flagellum blackish. Head covered with a sparse, minute pale pile ; the 

 centre of the front and a mark on the vertex wider than long, united 

 to a wider one on the occiput, black. Face closely, the front and vertex 

 more strongly, but not so closely punctured. Thorax somewhat strongly and 

 closely punctured ; on it the following parts are black : on the centre of the 

 mesonotum is a black line of equal width and about 3 times longer than 

 wide, a slightly broader line round the sides of the apical two-thirds and 

 round the apex, the sides of the scutellum, a large triangular mark on 

 the sides of the metanotum, extending shortly beyond the middle, its outerside 

 straight, the inner rounded ; the base of the mesopleura, an oblique line under 

 the tubercles, the apex, the line dilated above the middle, a curved line on 

 the sides of the mesosternum, the metasternum and the extreme apex of the 

 median segment, black. 



The transverse median nervure is received very shortly beyond the transverse 

 biisal. Tarsi spinose. 



Cryptin^;. 



Cryptini. 



Cryptus violaceotinctus, sp. nov. 



Black, a large yellow mark on the apex of clypeus ; the femora, anterior 

 tibiae and the abdomen, except the petiole, red ; the wings hyaline, tinged 

 with violaceous, especially at the apex. $ . 



Length 15 mm. 



Quetta. April. 



Face closely, strongly punctured, thickly covered with long white pubes- 

 cence. Clypeus shining, smooth, punctured in the middle ; the apex depressed. 

 The lower inner orbits have a pale narrow border. 



Front furrowed down the middle, strongly obliquely striated, except on the 

 lower outer edge, where it is smooth and shining. Mesonotum somewhat irregu- 

 larly punctured ; the apical slope striated finely and closely in the middle, the 

 sides smooth. Metanotum closely rugosely reticulated punctured, the reticu- 

 lations more distinct between the keels. Propleurae closely rugose, striated 

 in the middle. Mesopleurse rugosely punctured above; the middle closely, 

 obliquely reticulated-striated ; the lower part shining, impunctate, irregularly 

 aciculated. Areolet large, almost square, slightly converging in front ; the 

 transverse median nervure is received very slightly behind the transverse basal, 

 almost interstitial. 



The middle tibias are rufous below ; the parapsidal furrows deep, crenulated 

 closely, the calcaria dark testaceous ; the pubescence on the head and thorax 

 is dense, short, pale ; the 2 transverse keels on the metanotum are stout. 



