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Paniseus ceylonicus, Sp. 110V. 



Long. 19 mm.; terebra 4 mm. 



Hab. Trincomali, Ceylon (Yerbury). 



Comes near to P. lineatns, Be. from Bengal, but that 

 has the mesonotum marked with brownish lines ; the alar 

 nervures brownish at the base, reddish at the apex, while 

 here they are uniformly black, and no mention is made of 

 the dark antennae. 



Antenn as as long as the body; the scape testaceous; 

 the flagellum black, dark brownish on the underside 

 beyond the middle. Head clear yellow, the occiput in 

 the middle of a more fulvous line ; the teeth of the 

 mandibles black, rufous at their base. Thorax bearing a 

 microscopic white down ; the median segment finely and 

 closely but distinctly transversely striated. The hinder 

 tarsi pale yellow. Abdomen infuscated towards the, apex. 

 The second transverse cubital nervure is interrupted on 

 the lower side. 



TRYPHONIDES. 



EXOCHUS AlTKINI, Sp. 710V. 



Niger, pedibus strammeis; coxis tarsisque posticis nigris ; 

 alis hyalinis, stigmate fusco. <$ . Long. 7 mm. 

 Hab. Bengal (E. H. Aitkin). 



Head shining, closely covered with short black hair ; 

 below the antennas closely and somewhat strongly punc- 

 tured ; a semicircular furrow in front of the ocelli, the 

 palpi, yellow; the mandibles before the apex piceous. 

 Antennae bearing a close fuscous pile; the flagellum, 

 especially towards the base, brownish. Pro- and meso- 

 notum sparsely covered with fuscous pubescence ; the 

 supramedian area on the median segment a little longer 

 than broad ; the keels at its base curved outwardly tc 

 shortly beyond the middle, when they become straight 

 and oblique; the apical keel transverse. Pro-, meso-. 



