390 iciixRrMoxiJ).!:. 



nervure straight, oblique and ratlier more than half tlie length of 

 the recurrent, which is about a fourth shorter than the apical 

 abscissa of the disco-cubital nervure ; third discoidal cell short 

 and broad, its length hardly exceeding double its apical breadth ; 

 basal nervure continuous through the median. 



Lengtli ll-:iO millini. 



PUiNJAB: Kangra Valley {(1. C. Dudr/eon) ; United Pkoa^i^cks : 

 Dehra Dun (A. D. Imms), Agra, .'{OO ft., and Lucknow, 950 ft. 

 {E. Brunetti — Ind. Mus.), Kanipur Chaka and IMeerut (Ind. Mus.) ; 

 SiKKiM (Ind. JMus.) ; Assaai : Sibsagar (*S'. E. J^eal) ; Bexgal : 

 Chapra and Pusa (Pusa coll.), Calcutta and Bettiali (Ind. Mus.); 

 Cextral Pbotix'Ces : Balaghat, Nag])ur, Iloshangabad and Powar- 

 kheda (Pusa coll.) ; Kajputana : Mt. Abu {Col. 2surse) ; Bombay : 

 Igatpuri and Nadiad (Pusa coll.) ; Madbas : Anantapur and 

 Saidapet (Pusa coll.), Ganjam, Bangalore and Maddatliorai (Ind. 

 ]Mus.); Ceylox : Paradeniva (/i*. /i. Green), Diyatalawa, 4000 ft., 

 and Pattipola, tiOO(» ft. {T. B. Fletcher), Colombo and Madulsima 

 (O.S. Wicl-n'((r); Te^ kSSEniu (W. DoJiertu — Ind. Mus.). Malay 

 States : Pen an g. Eubope. 



T'/pe in the Breslaii Musenni. 



At once distingnished from the other species of this genns, 

 ^lescribed by Cameron in 1905, by the comparatively short and 

 broad third discoidal cell. 



This species is very abundant throughout nearly the whole of 

 Europe, but has not hitherto been known to extend further East. 

 It has often been bred from a large number of Noctuid moth 

 caterpillars. ]Vo doubt can remain, J think, that Cameron's 

 description of his //. xantJiocejJiahis applies to Graveiihorst's 

 s})ecies ; most of the Indian specimens I have examined have the 

 head testaceous. It is certainly one of the commonest of the 

 Indian species of this genus. In the Pusa collection there is a 

 specimen bred from tlie Lymantriid moth, Euproctis scintiUaiis, 

 AVlk., and Mr. Green has bred a small male from the larva of 

 Euproclis fratermt, Moore, at Peradeniya. 



28G. Henicospilus melanocarpus, dun. 



Eiiiscospilus melavocarpiis, Cameron, Spolia Zevlanica, 19()-">, 

 p. 12l>($). 



5 . A rufescent species, with only the antenna^ and anus 

 black. Jlead immaculate. Antenna' black, broadly rufescent 

 basally. Ihora.v with the metanotum closely reticulate, but 

 becoming less so at the smooth base, whei'e it is irregularly and 

 longitudinally striate, with the basal impression closely and 

 strongly stiiate, more closely centrally than laterally ; pleune 

 closely but not stronglj^ punctate, metapleura? more strongly, 

 pi'opleura? centrally closely striate. >Sentelhim with lateral, 

 abnormally stout carinae. Abdomen rufescent, with the anus 

 from the fifth segment black. Le[/s immaculate. Winr/s hyaline 



