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Major Nurse has taken a Cryptus in Kashmir which is closely allied to tin- 

 above. The two may be separated readily. 



Abdominal petiole red; apex of abd< men blue-black; anterior tibiae 

 black • «••••«■«« nwaei. 



Abdominal petiole black, apex of abdomen red ; anterior tibiae red violaceotinc'".< 



I give here a description of C. tmrsei. 



Cryptus nursei, sp. nov. 



Black, the basal 3 segments of the abdomen, the base of the 4th and the 

 femora red ; the apical segments of the abdomen tinged with blue ; the wings 

 hyaline, distinctly tinged with violaceous, the nervures and stigma black. 9. 



Length 15 mm. ; terebra 8 mm. 



Kashmir— 8— 9,000 feet. June. 



Face and base of mandibles thickly covered with long white pubescence : 

 the clypeus with longer black hair ; the face closely punctured ; the clypeus 

 more shining and more sparsely punctured. Front deeply excavated, strongly 

 transversely striated and with a keel down the middle ; the strias on the upper 

 half are stronger, more oblique and curved ; the inner orbits are bordered by 

 a pale coloured keel. Mesonotum shining, strongly but not closely punctured ; 

 th3 middle lobe at the base closely transversely striated, as is also the apical 

 slope. Scutellum sparsely punctured. 



Metanotum closely rugosely punctured ; the space between the keels in the 

 middle irregularly, stoutly, more or less longitudinally striated, its sides closely 

 reticulated, strongest below at the tooth. Pleurae closely, strongly rugosely 

 punctured ; the punctuation on the mesopleurge runs into reticulation. Abdo- 

 men smooth and shining. Areolet large, about one-fourth longer than wide, 

 angled below where the recurrent nervure is received shortly beyond the 

 middle. 



Phcedrophadnus, gen. nov. 



Areolet large, not much longer than wide, the sides not converging in front ; 

 ransverse median nervure received beyond the transverse basal ; transverse 

 median nervure in hind wings broken in the middle. Median segment short, 

 obliquely depressed at the base, strongly, closely striated ; there are 2 transverse 

 keels ; its spiracles longish oval, about two and a half times longer than wide. 

 Abdominal petiole long and slender, not dilated at the apex, the post-petiole not 

 being defined. Tarsi spinose, a number of spines at the apices of the joints, 

 the tarsi in the ft have the 3rd and 4th joints marked with white. The 

 antennas are of uniform thickness in the 9 > m the ft they are slightly 

 narrowed towards the apex. There is a distinct malar space ; it is nearly as 

 long as the antennal scape. Clypeus roundly convex, but not separated from 

 the face by a suture. 



Comes nearest to Acroricnus-Linoceras, Taseh., which may be known from it 

 by the metathorax not being striated. Also to Bathy crisis, Cam., from Ceylon ; 

 that genus is easily separated by the interstitial transverse basal nervure. by 



