Tlll'MAlUS. 



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■quadrato and, at least in 5, aciciilate ; third finely alutaceous 

 beyond the centre, remainder glabrons ; terebral valvulio centrally 

 incrassate and distinctly exserted. Legs very slender, with the 

 liiud coxiB oblong ; hind tibiae slightly incrassate before the base ; 

 front femora not spinose, the basal joint of tlieir tarsi a little 

 arcuate. AVings with no indication of an areolet ; radius very 

 .slightly curved and emitted from the centre of the normally broad 

 stigma ; basal uervnre hardly curved or oblique, and slightly 

 divergent from the cubital ; parallel nervure emitted far below 

 <_^eutre of the brachial cell ; nervellus antefurcal and intercepted 

 far below the centre. 



Range. North AVest Europe, Ceylon. 



This genus nuist be retained in jnxtaposition to CEdematopsis, 

 with which it so closelj' agrees in its more salient features, although 

 the body is more slender, the abdomen smoother and the head less 

 cubical. It was originally placed by burster in the Opnioxix.T;, 

 and Bridgman considered it a division of C)/riio<liisa in that sub- 

 family ; Thomson, however, discovered tlie obvious relationship of 

 the above named genus with it, and includes them, under the 

 g]'oup-name Thymabides, in the Tryphonid Mcsolcptina, I think 

 correctly ; but Ashmead, in 1900, widely separates these two 

 genera by leaving the present in its original position and placing 

 Uulematopsis in the Pimplin.e. Ijoth sexes bear a curious super- 

 ficial resemblance to small Microcnjptus or the more slender 

 llemiteles, and the aciculate abdomen is similar to that of Panar- 

 (/i/fops {Leptoci'>i2^tus). 



]i). Thymaris clotho, sp. n. 



2 . A black species, with pale-marked abdomen and red legs. 



Head shining and pubescent, somewhat broader than the thorax, 



with the facial orbits impressed ; palpi and mouth testaceous ; 



clypeus apically testaceous, normal and transverse, basalh' sub- 



tuberculate in the centre, apicallv 

 a little rounded and not de- 

 pressed. Atitemue very slender, 

 u ith the scape pale ; flagellum 

 tricoloured, black, with the two 

 basal joints red and the eleventh 

 to fifteenth white. Thorax 

 shining and pubescent ; notauli 

 deeply iinpressed ; areola trans- 

 strigose and longer than broad, 

 subparallel-sided, basally rounded 

 and apically truncate, emitting 

 the costulas near its base ; basal 

 area not short. Alviomea with 

 the apical margin of the second 

 l'\g.\l. — T]nj,narisclotho,'SioY\. and whole of the first segment 



dull testaceous ; basal segment 



longer than the hind coxa? and trochanters, aciculate, sleiuler and 



