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the antennal groove very wide, reaching quite close to the 
eyes and distinctly margined ; the centre finely and closely 
transversely striated ; the sides punctured somewhat 
strongly ; the front ocellus placed in the groove, the hinder 
pair on the other side of the margin ; the vertex and sides 
of the head punctured; thorax strongly punctured; the 
upper side covered with a fuscous, the pleurse and ster- 
num with white pile; the pleurae not deeply excavated, 
obliquely, rather strongly striated ; scutellum ending in two 
blunt, stout teeth ; metano turn reticulated; two keels con- 
verging at base and apex, in the apex in the centre, and 
there is a more roundly curved one on either side of them ; 
the metapleurae are densely covered with silvery white hair ; 
abdomen semisessile, the third and following segments at the 
sides bearing longish silvery white hair. Legs shortly pilose; 
hind femora stout, a black, deeply fringed border on the 
apical three-fourths; a tooth at the apex of the four 
anterior; basal joint of fore tarsi curved; hind tarsi black, 
reddish on the underside. Wings irregularly smoky, the 
base almost hyaline, the apex much lighter in tint than the 
middle ; ulna about four times longer than broad, cubitus 
short. 
H. apicalis, Walker (Trans. Ent. Soc., 1874, p. 400), is 
closely allied, but judging from the description, is different, 
the COX 00 being all black, the metano turn with only three 
keels, the prothorax “ about four times as broad as long ” — 
in tinctipennis not much more than double — the wings are 
uniforml}^ coloured; the antennse shorter than thorax. 
JET. tinctipennis belongs to Kirby’s genus or subgenus 
Stomatocerus, so far as I can make out. 
Hah. Nagasaki, Japan (George Lewis). 
Epitranus erytlirog aster, sp. nov. 
Niger, scapo antennarum, pedibus, abdomineque, rufis, 
coxis posticis (apice excepto) petioloque, nigris ; alis hyalinis. 
Long. o’5 mm. 
