384 tCHNEUMONID.li. 



279. Henicospilus flavicaput, 31orl. 



Eniscospilns xanthocephalus, Cameron {nee Caiueron, 1905), Ann. 



Nat. Hist, xix, 1907, p. 178 ( $ ). 

 Henicospilus favicnput, Morlev, lievis. Tchii. iJrit. JNIiis. 19ll*, 



p. 45 ( S ?■). 



J 2 . An immaculate luteous species. //^ert(? unicolorons flavous. 

 Thorax with the metanotum stoutly and distinctly striate, basally 

 glabrous, Avitli a single short stria in its centre, lateral stria? basally 

 longitudinal and straight but towards the apex obliquely sinuate 

 to pleurae, basal impression stoutly and sparsely striate, striae ol! 

 apical slope roundly curved from side to side; propleunc finely 

 and obliquely striate centrally ; mesopleurae longitudinally and 

 distinctly striate on their basal half. iSrutelhnu \\ith the basal 

 lialf glabrous and the apical closely and longitudinally aciculate ; 

 its sides distinctly carinate throughout. Abdomen and Jcf/s 

 iuimaculate. Win(/s hyaline, with stigma testaceous and nervures 

 black ; glabrous area with two corneous marks, the basal large 

 and broad with its base transverse and constricted above, thence 

 gradually and roundly narrowed to a fine point at the apex, the 

 apical mark close to centre of basal radial abscissa, elongate 

 and narrow, roundly curved towards radius ; disco-cubital nervure 

 broadly and but slightly curved at its apex, which is remote from 

 apical abscissa of radius ; base of radius broadly detlexed. 



Length 27 niillim. 



Central Provinces: Jabalpur, iii.OS (Col. Nurse); Bombay: 

 Kasaba, 855 ft., vii. 04 (Pusa coll.) ; Ceylox {Templeton—Ox's. 

 Mus.); Tenasserim : Haundraw Valley {Col. Bingham, type"). 



Cameron simply differentiates this species from H. reticulaias 

 and B. striatxa by its duplicated corneous alar marks, making no 

 reference to those of similar conformation among the remaining 

 species ; but its large size, stout build, and especially the basally 

 distinctly sinuate radial nervure, render it sufliciently distinct 

 and ally it with the genus AUocamptus, Thomson. Especially is 

 this the case with two females captured in Ceylon by the Jlev. 

 T. Wenham in 1845 (in the British Museum) and by Dr. Thwaites 

 in 1873 (in the Oxford Museum), which have the radius distinctly 

 bisinuate basally, the metathorax more regularly and stoutly ti-ans- 

 striate, the glabrous alar area with but a single corneous mark and 

 Hie colour ochraceous. I propose to call this form var. sinuatus, 

 though it is quite possibly of specific rauk. 



280. Henicospilus pnngens. Smith. 



Ophion pungens, Smith,* Trans. Ent. Soc. liOnd. 1874, p. 396 



(c?,a8$). 

 Ilentco.-^pihis piniyens, Morlev, Revis. Icliii. llrit. Mus. 1912, p. 4G 



J 5 • It" ^s ''"^^ impossible that my Jl.^ffavicapnt is a varietj'^ of 

 this species, from wliich it differs in its distinctly geniculate 



