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IC'lIXEt'MONTD.i:. 



scutelluin laterally carinate. Abdomen ver}' slender aiul testaceous, 

 with apical half of the three hasal, aud nearly the whole of the 

 remaining, segments determinate black ; basal segment glabrous, 

 very strongly nitidulous, with its apex nodulose ; the second 

 broadly and not strongly constricted towards the base, its apex 

 and the remaining segments distinctl}' pilose. Lerjs testaceous, 

 with the hind coxiu, and more or less of their femora black ; claws 

 minute and distinctly, not densely, pectinate. Wings hyaline, with 

 nervures and costa of both pairs of wings blackish ; teguhe, stigma 

 and metacarpus testaceous; radius basally straight and thickened ; 

 glabrous area of first cubital cell well-delined, with a larger sub- 

 triangular red corneous mark, which is obtuse abov(\ below the 

 basal third of the first radial abscissa, and a second small mark 

 below its apical third ; second recurrent longer than the sub- 

 marginal nervure ; internal cubital subsiiuiate but not strongly 

 curved, with no nervelet ; basal nervure continuous through the 

 median ; nervellus distinctly postfurcal, intercepted at its lower 

 fourth with the upper part subvertical. 



Length 15-22 millim. 



Ceylox : Kandy, 2000 ft., v, aI. viii. and ix. {E. E. Green, Col. 

 J. W. Yerlninj, 0. S. Wiclwar, T. B. Fletcher), Madulsima, v. 08 

 {Fletcher). 



Type in the author's collection. 



The coloration is somewhat variable since I find the stigma 

 sometimes infuscate, the metathorax and second segment and hind 

 coxae often immaculate testaceous, the hind femora rarely no more 

 than centrally brunneous, sometimes entirelj^ black with their 

 base alone pale, the basal segment with only the postpetiole 

 infuscate and even that apically testaceous ; the third segment, 

 however, appears to be invariably infuscate laterally at its apex, 

 rendering the large pale lateral spot at the base of the fourth very 

 conspicuous. 



This species should probably be referred to a new genus 

 (hence my specific name); but although the facies is distinct from 

 Henicospilus. I can find no characters of probable generic value 

 except the distinctly, not densely, pectinate tarsal claws. 



It is evidently an abundant species, though not jet known to 

 occur outside Ceylon, where many specimens were taken by 

 Thwaites in 1873. 



284. Henicospilus reticulatus, Ccnn. 



Enicospilus retiadfifiis, Cameron (nee Cameron, 1899), Fauna 

 Maldive et Laccadive Arch. I, i, 1902, p. 51 (2). 



d 2 • A luteous species. Beeul with the face centrally 

 shagreened, laterally flavescent and punctate ; clypeus fiavescent 

 and glabrous, with indistinct basal punctation ; labrum darker, 

 mandibular teeth black ; orbits and vertex flavescent. Aniemue 

 luteous, becoming apically darker, Mesonotvm infumate, with the 

 base and sides paler ; metanotum irregularly and distinctly 



