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punctured, clearly separated from the upper striolated part 

 by an oblique keel. All the coxse are black, as are also 

 the four posterior trochanters; the anterior tibiae and 

 tarsi are more yellowish in colour; the hinder femora are 

 broadly marked with black on the under side to the 

 middle; the hinder tarsi are infuscated. Wings uniformly 

 smoky, with a faint violaceous tinge ; the transverse 

 cubital nervures unite at the top, but do not form a 

 peduncle ; the first is straight, oblique ; the second slightly 

 curved. Petiole entirely black, except for a rufous spot 

 on the side near the apex ; the second and third segments 

 are broadly black above ; the others are narrowly, and 

 not completely, black above. 



Campoplex CARINIFRONS, Sp. nov. 



Long. 14-15 mm. 



Similar in the coloration of the body to C. hintalayensis, 

 but is smaller ; has the front distinctly keeled down the 

 centre ; the scutellum is more distinctly pyramidal and 

 with the depression at the base larger and deeper ; the 

 propleurae much more strongly and regularly striolated on 

 the lower side on both sides of the depression ; the areolet 

 is shortly, but distinctly, appendiculated ; and the petiole 

 is only black above. 



Antennae entirely black ; the scape punctured, rather 

 thickly covered with longish, black hairs ; the flagellum 

 with a microscopic down. Vertex closely punctured, 

 thickly covered with longish, black hair ; on the outer 

 sides of the hinder ocelli is a distinct furrow ; between 

 them, in the middle, is a longitudinal furrow ; the front is 

 depressed ; in its centre is a stout, longitudinal keel ; the 

 apex of the clypeus has only some large, widely separated 

 punctures ; the mandibles have a pale rufo-testaceous 

 hue ; the palpi are dark rufo-testaceous ; the face is 



