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black from Hie third seoiuent. In short, the sculpture is more 

 pronounced and the pale markings less profuse, which is rarely 

 the case in the males of these parasiters. In superficial facies, 

 it somewhat resembles members o£ the genus Metopius, Panz. 



14l>. Apophua carinata, sp. n, 



2 . A dull black species, with scutellnm and all the segmental 

 apices liavous. Head black and strongly constricted behind the 

 ])rominent and entire eyes ; frons and vertex nitidulous, Avitli a 

 few isolated punetin-es;" face irregularly transversely strigose- 

 punctate ; clypeus hardly broader than long, shining, ilavous and 

 subglabrous ;' mandibles flavous, margined below, with their teeth 

 black and equal. Antenna' filiform, black, with the scape testa- 

 ceous internallv and beneath. Thorax black, with the prouotum 

 centrally, and "elongate callosities thence to the radices, flavous ; 

 mesouotum closely and coriaceously punctate, triangular, with 

 .the notauli obsolete ; metathorax move finely punctate, with 

 elongate griseous pilosity ; basal area? small and quadrate ; areola 

 twice as long as broad, parallel-sided, apically emarginate, emitting 

 the costula) from before its centre ; petiolar area short, entire, 

 and shining. Scutellnm ilavous throughout, sparsely punctate and 

 strcnigly nitidulous ; postscutellum and frenum innnaculate. 

 Abdomen dull, longitudinally and irregularly striolate, with apices 

 of all the segments testaceous and their centre distinctly carinato 

 to apex of the fourth ; basal segment half as long again as broad, 

 eveidy punctate, basally ilavous and bicarinate to tlie emarginate 

 apex • terebra as long as abdomen. Le;/s testaceous, the hind 

 ones missing, except their red coxse. Win^/s hyalhie, with the 

 legnlfB and costte black, radix flavous and stigma piceous. 



Length 8 k millim. 



Assam :'Khasi HUK 1000-3000 ft., iii. 07 (Pusa coll.); 

 Ceylon: Maskeliya, iii. 09 (T. Bainhrkjge Fletcher). 



Ti/pe in the Pusa collection. 



The above description is drawn from two females. The Ceylon 

 specimen agrees exactly with the type, except in the possession 

 of an entirely pale red metathorax and in having the first 

 segment more broadly red basally. 



Tribe LISSONOTIDES. 



No hesitation can be experienced respecting the representatives 

 of this tribe, for they are all very easily distinguished by negative 

 characters. The head is transverse and not cubical, as in the 

 ]v:()RiinDES ; the abdomen is evenly sculptured, ns^ially finely 

 punctate or coriaceous, throughout, and not at all impressed nor 

 tuberculate as in the Pimplioes ; the basal segment, though 

 jBlender, is not subpetiolate as in the Hemigastkiues, nor are its 



