IIENICOSPILUS. 385 



discoidal nervure, longer and stouter antenna? and the large, 

 entirely immaculate, glabrous alar area. 



Len'jth 18 millira, 



Assam {W. F. Badfjleij). Singapore {H. N. Ridley); Japax: 

 Hiogo (type). 



Type (S in the British Museum. 



281. Henicospilus riifus, 7'osq. 



(?) Op/lion riifus, Bnille, Hist. N;it. Ins. Ilym. iv, 1S4(), p. 149. 



Ophion {Enicospilus) /•»/««, Tosquinet, Iclin, d'Afrique, 1896, p. .378 



cf 2 . A stout and red species, sparsely punctate and pubescent. 

 Head rut'esceut, broader than long and strongly constricted 

 posteriorly : orbits entirely flavous and close to the eyes on the 

 vertex ; frons concave and smootli ; face a little convex, smooth, 

 with somewhat long white pilosity ; clypeus not discrete and 

 laterally somewhat deeply impressed, smooth and subnitidulous, 

 with its apes broadly rounded ; mandibles basally rufescent 

 and apically piceous ; palpi fulvous ; eyes strongly emarginate 

 internally. Antenna' red, longer than body and setaceous ; scape 

 elongate and the basal flagellar joint slightly longer than the 

 second. Thorax ovoid, red and shortly pilose ; mesonotum con- 

 vex, finely punctate, with no notauli ; mesopleurte finely and 

 closely punctate ; metathorax posteriorly rounded and produced 

 beyond the base of the hind coxfe, with its disc traversed by a 

 transverse carina, dividing the short, horizontal and finely punctate 

 basal |)art from the very large, sloping and sinuately trans-aciculate 

 apical region ; spiracles basal, linear and very large. Sciiiellum 

 elongate, somewhat narrow, discally convex, with obsolete puncta- 

 tion and laterally margined nearly to its apex. Abdomen thrice 

 as long as the head and thorax, strongly compressed, red, smootli 

 and shortl}^ pilose, with the segments laterally and apically in- 

 fuscate ; basal segment narrow and very elongate, with the petiole 

 thrice as long as tlie postpetiole, which is discally convex ; second 

 segment somewhat shorter and apically subcompressed ; terebra 

 black and somewhat stout. Legs fulvous and very long ; hind 

 tibia? much longer than their femora and the basal joint of their 

 tarsi thrice as long as the second ; claws piceous and pectinate. 

 Winys ample and hyaline ; stigma and radix fulvous, tegula? red, 

 jiervures a])ically darker ; radial cell elongate and somewhat 

 narrow ; radial nervure basally sinuate and slightly thickened ; of 

 the two corneous spots in the cubital cell, the internal is the 

 larger and subtriangular with its apex produced and curved, the 

 external is small and linear ; the ordinary transverse nervure is 

 antefurcal and the nervellus intercepted well below its centre by 

 a nervure extending to the margin of the wing. 



Lenyth 2.") millim. 



Northern India (Caj>t. lieid); Assam: Kliasi Hills (Col. 

 Godu'in-Ai(sien), Margherita and Sibsagar («S'. E. Peal — Ind. Mus.) ; 



