Mi*. F. Walker on some undescribed Ceylon Insects. 307 



albo unifasciato subtus lurido, pedibus rufis longis robustis, alls 

 lurido-citiereis. 



Female. Black, slightly shining, finely scabrous. Head with a 

 white line on each side of the vertex. Antennae long, with a white 

 band at a little beyond the middle, between which and the scape 

 there are four long joints, the first red at the base ; scape thick. 

 Scutellum white. Metathorax with two short stout white spines. 

 Abdomen fusiform, very finely punctured, lurid beneath, white at 

 the tip ; petiole red, increasing in thickness hindward, with a 

 white hind border ; first segment with a white hind border. Legs 

 red, long, stout. Wings lurid-cinereous ; veins and stigma black ; 

 discal areolet small, tetragonal. Length of the body five lines ; 

 of the wings 8 lines. 



This species may form a new genus. 



HEMITELES? VARIUS. Foem. Niger, capite gutta flava, antennis 

 rufis basi flavis apices versus nigris, abdomine fusiformi macula 

 dorsali flava, pedibus flavis, tibiis posticis piceo-fasciatis, alis albis 

 nigro bifasciatis. 



Female. Black, shining. Head with a yellow dot at the base 

 of the antennae ; mouth yellow. Antennae red, very slightly in- 

 creasing in thickness from the base to the tips, yellow at 

 the base, black towards the tips, nearly as long as the body. 

 Abdomen fusiform, much longer than the thorax, with a large 

 yellow spot near the base ; sheaths of the ovipositor less than half 

 the length of the body. Legs yellow ; a black point on each fore 

 trochanter ; tips of hind femora and a broad band on the hind 

 tibiae piceous. Wings white; veins black, yellow at the base. 

 Fore wings with two black bands, the exterior one much broader 

 than the inner one. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 

 4 lines. 



PORIZON DOMINANS. Mas. Niger, obscurus, confertissime punctatus, 

 antennis basi rufis, metathorace subcarinato, abdomine rufo glabro 

 nitente clavato, lituris lateralibus basique nigris, pedibus rufis, 

 tibiis tarsisque posticis piceis, alis cinereis. 



Male. Black, opake, very minutely and thickly punctured. 

 Antennae little more than half the length of the body, red at the 

 base. Metathorax with a slight middle keel. Abdomen red, 

 clavate, smooth, shining, darker towards the tip, with minute black 

 marks on each side, less than twice the length of the thorax ; pe- 

 tiole long, black, slender. Legs red ; hind tibiae and hind tarsi 

 piceous. Wings cinereous ; veins and stigma black. Length of 

 the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 4^ lines. 



Fam. Braconidae. 



MICROGASTER Sect. Mas. Corpus robustum, breve, latum. Caput 

 subquadratum, thorace non latius. Antennae robustae, corpore 

 paullo longiores, articulis plurimis coarctatis. Abdomen sessile, 



