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ni;iteri:illy in llie shorter basal segment whose s])ivacles are more 

 prominent in both sexes tliough especially so in the (S . 



It is a veiy interesting and beneficial species, since the types of 

 both sexes, which Mr. E. Ernest Green has bred together at 

 Pnudaluoya in Ceylon, emerged from larvje which had been 

 preying ectoparasitically upon those of the coffee pest, the 

 Tortricid Capua coffcaria ; another female was also bred by him 

 at the same locality from the same host in ]March, TU03, I am 

 not aware that members of this genus have befoi*e been noticed 

 to be external parasites, though they have frequently been raised 

 from both Tortricid and other motlis in Europe. 



Genus PHYTODI^TOIDES, ^en. nov. 



GEXOTYrE, F. majoira, sp. n. 



Body graceful and nearly smooth, neither strongly punctate nor 

 elougately pilose. Antenna) as long as body, very slender and 

 iiliform throughout, with the apical joints cylindrical and not 

 discrete. ]>fotauli obsolete ; metathoracic costas entirely wanting ; 

 spiracles circular and very small. JScutellum hardly convex and 

 always pale, with the frenum partly pale. Abdomen finely cori- 

 aceous, neither punctate nor impressed, the segments with pale 

 margins and the anus subcompressed ; hypopygium retracted ; 

 basal segment convex and not carinate ; terebra longer than half, 

 but not than the whole abdomen. Tibial calcaria elongate ; tarsal 

 claws not ])ectinate. Areolet broad and obliquely triangular, 

 emitting the recurrent nervure from its apical third ; first re- 

 current of lower wing strongly postfurcal, emitting the nervellus 

 from far above its centre, from about its upper fourth part. 

 Abdomen distinctly sessile ; areolet sessile ; inner cubital nervure 

 but slightly curved, with no nervelet ; eyes internally emarginate ; 

 clypeus convex and basally emarginate. 



Ranrje. Assam. 



In its superficial facies this genus bears a very strong resem- 

 blance to Phijtodiatas, Grav. ; but differs materially in its simple 

 tarsal claws and metapleurae, not entirely glabrous abdomen, and 

 in the disposition of the alar nervures. It ap])ears to be some- 

 what related to Nadia, Tosq. (Mem. Soc. Ent, Belg. 189G, p. 337) 

 though the sculpture of the basal abdominal segmentwill instantly 

 distinguish it therefrom. I have seen but a single species. 



153. Phytodiaetoides megaera, sp. n. 



Chrysopimplajlavipalpis, Cam. MS. 



$ . A black species, with sparse tlavous markings and most of 

 the legs red. Hend immaculate, tiie face with long grey pilosity 

 and the palpi alone bright liuvous. Antenna: very slender, black. 



