102 ICHXEUMOXIl).^. 



series of both sexes frora Samalkota in Madras, Buxa Duars^ 

 Pusa, Samastipur and Chapra in Bengal, and from Poona in- 

 Bombay, taken by JNIackenzie, D. Nowrojee, G. R. Uiitt and 

 others, in and upon wild and cultivated grasses, on weeds, in 

 fields and forests, on oats, lucerne, and in May on flowers, often 

 while flying, during January, February, March, April, May, June^ 

 August and October. It has also been found at Peradeniya, in 

 Ceylon (cf. 8polia Zeylanica, iii, pt. 10, p. 135), by Mi". Ernest 

 Grreen, Avho has kindly sent me females from Kandy in April and 

 May, and botli sexes from Maskeliya in January. There are 

 several old s])ecimens from Bombay and Ceylon in tlie Oxford 

 Museum. Mr. "Wickwar took males at Kandy in September 

 1909, and Colombo, Ceylon, in April 1908. It is evidently 

 common at Calcutta, to judge from tlie number in the Museum 

 there, which also contains examples from Bangalore, captured in 

 early September ; from Mergui in Lower Burma (W . DoJierti/) ; 

 and frora Aijal in the Lushai Hills of Assam (E. C. Madeod) at 

 an altitude of 3000 feet, in June 1904. The typical male of 

 Cameron's E. heva was found at Kuching, in Borneo, on 30th 

 January 1902 ; I fail to follow his reference of it (loc. eit.) to- 

 Singapore, where it was, however, found commonly by Mr. II. N.. 

 Eidley in 1895 and 19U4. 



55. Echthromorpha persimilis, Cam. 



Chrysupimpla persimilis, Cameron, Mauch, Mem. 1899, p. 188 (cJ). 



" Head shining, impunctate ; the front broadly, the ocellar 

 region, the vertex and occiput, except at the sides, black ;, 

 mandibular teeth black. Antennte slightly longer than the body ; 

 the scape yellow; the base and apex of the flagellum more or less 

 brownish. Thorax shining, impunctate, except behind the meta- 

 thoracic spiracles, where it is rough and irregularly punctured, 

 and the extreme apex of the mesopleura^, which is creuulated ; 

 on the mesonotum are two lines, dilated at the base, narrowed 

 towards the apex, running from the base \_sic\ to the scutellum ;. 

 the scutellum, postscutellum, the base of the propleura?, a large 

 mark on the mesopleura?, broad at the base and continued narrowly 

 there to the sternum, and irregularly rounded behind, and the- 

 metapleurse, except the base and a line running obliquely to the 

 spiracles, yellow. The median segment [metathorax] is yellow^ 

 except for a broad hourglass-shaped mark, down the centre. The 

 petiole is smooth and shining, impunctate; the apex broadly 

 yellow ; the black at the apex and sides running into rufous ; the 

 other segments are closely and rather strongly punctured, excejit 

 on the yellow apices ; the depressions are not very strongly- 

 impressed, the apical segments entirely fulvous rufous ; the ventral 

 surface yellowish. Legs fulvous; the four front coxie and tro- 

 chanter;-, and the hinder, except the base broadlv behind, inside 

 and out, and a mark, gradually dilated from the base to the apex 

 in the middle, black ; the hinder tarsi fuscous. Wings hyaline 



