ORIEXTOSPILUS. 



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nervelliis, traiisluceut black ; an additional black strealc runs from 

 the anal angle of the front wings to an oval blotch extending 

 from the fulvous stigma to the centre of the lower side of the 

 disco-cubital cell. Uead witli the vertex broad and hardlv narrower 

 than the somewhat small eyes. Scutellum distinctly carinate 

 laterally only, and sparsely punctate. Thorax : metathorax 

 sbagreened, witli no trace of area? ; the postpetiole becomes 

 abruptly nearly double the breadth of the petiole ; anal valvular 

 blackish. Legs sliort and stout, testaceous, with the liind tarsi 

 conspicuously black and rather broad ; all the fenjora wiih long 

 hairs beneath. Winc/s broad and not very ample, with the 

 nervures concolorous with the markings ; upper basal straight and 

 strongly antefurcal, disco-cubital acutely geniculate, but with no 

 ramellus ; nervellus subopposite and intercepted a little above its 

 lower third. 



Lenf/th 17 millim. 



Bombay: Deesa, ix. 01 (Col. jS'^nrse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



A remarkable species in its strong superficial resemblance to 

 Oriental Bracons. 



276. Orientospilus reticulatus, Cam. 



Enicospilus reticulatus, Cameron (nee Cam. 190i^), Mauch. Mein. 

 1899, p. 102 ( 2 ). 



(S 2 • Head fulvous, with the distioctly punctate face paler and 

 the ocellar region black ; clypeus indistinctly punctate and apically 

 glabrous; mandibles basally closel}' punctate, with their teeth 



black: palpi fulvous, with dense 

 elongate white pilosity. An- 

 tenna; longer than the body, 

 unicolorous flavoiis ; scape 

 punctate and M"ith sjjarse pale 

 hairs ; flagellum with dense 

 and very short dark pubescence. 

 TJiorax fulvous, with three 

 large mesonotal, and two large 

 niesosternal, black marks ; the 

 metanotum basally " is obli- 

 quely depressed at the base and 

 apex; the centre at the bast; 

 has a long central, bordered by 

 a shorter keel and the edges by 

 a curved one ; the a]>ical part 

 smooth and without any keels. 

 The smooth basal part of the 

 median segment is bordered by 

 a curved keel ; in front of this the segment is .stoutly irregularly 

 reticulated to the apex ; in the middle at the base are two straight 



Fig. lOG. 

 Orientospilus reticulatus, Cam. 



