HBNIC'OSPILUS. 



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278. Henicospilus univittatus, Bnd. 



Ophion univittatus, Brulle, Hist. Nat. Iiis. Hyni. 1840, p. 146 {? S)- 

 J^nicospilus ni(jro)iotatus, Cameron,* Jouru. Str. Br. lioy. Asiat. 



Son. 1903, p. 133 { $ ). 

 Se7iicof!pihis univittatus, Morley, Revis. Ichn. Brit. 3Ius. 1912, p. -io 



{6 2)- 



c? 2 . A large ferruginous-red species, with a single infuscate 

 niesonotal vitta. Head posteriorly constricted with the occiput and 

 the whole of the uneven face flavidous, the latter centrally pro- 

 minent and apically hardly discrete from tlie convex and elongate 



clypeus. Thorax closely 

 and finely punctate, tes- 

 taceous, with the central 

 only of the three indis- 

 tinct mesonotal lobes 

 bearing a black or brun- 

 neous band and the meso- 

 sternum sometinies con- 

 coloi-ous ; metathorax 

 finely and arcuately 

 trans-strigose through- 

 out, with no more indica- 

 tion of a basal area than 

 is given by the absence of 

 striation. Abdomen dull 

 ferruginous, with the 

 apical half infuscate ; 

 terehra not extending 

 heyond the anus-and tlie 

 J viilvulsB large. Ze^s normal and testaceous tlu-oughout. Winr/s 

 wiVa the nervures stout, very dark indeed, and the stii^ma infuscate- 

 ferruginous ; internal cubital nervure centrally arcuate and the 

 radial basally bisinuate ; cubital cell bearing a hyaline space 

 containing two or no corneous dots. 

 Length 25-30 millim. 



Assam {Mrs. Evans); Ceylon (Col. J. W. Terhun/, E. E. Green). 

 Malay States : Singapore (II. K Ridley) ; Dixg-dixg Islands \ 

 Sarawak ; New Guinea. 



Tyjje of H. nigronotatus in the British Museum. 

 Neither size nor sex is indicated by BrulJc, whose type lacked 

 its abdomen. The hyaline area of the cubital cell places this 

 species, indubitably 1 think, in the present genus and not, as it 

 has hitherto been treated, in Ophion proper. Supposing this to 

 be the case, 1 have seen a single pair which agrees in every way 

 with the original description, enabling me to elaborate it as above 

 and certainly synonynnse it with Cameron's female. This species 

 is evidently closely allied to II. Jlavicaput, from which it is easily, 

 but apparently only, known by the strongly infuscate alar cost a 

 and stigma. 



Fig. 107. — Henicospilus nnivittatus, Brul. 



