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^592 icii>EUMoxiD,T!;. 



Var. zeylanicus, nov. 



Differs only in the possession of a second minute corneous 

 circular mark beneath the centre of the basal abscissa of the 

 radius. 



Ceylon : Kandy and Peradeuiya, v. vi. and vii. 09 {E. E. Green), 

 :\raskeliya, iii. 09 {T. B. Fletcher). 



Type in the author's collection. 



The variety zeylanicus is by far the commoner form that I 

 have received from Mr. Green from Ceylon, ^^■l^ere it would 

 appear to be among the most abundant of Ichneumoxidje. 



1JS8. Henicospilus spilonotus, Cam. 



Eniscospilus spilonotus, Cameron, Spolia Zeylanica, 1905, p. li'l. 



A rufescent-testaceous species, with black markings. Head 

 tlavous, with the ocellar region black. Antenna' black, becoming 

 infu,scate apically. Thorax with three broad black mesonotal 

 lines ; metauotuui glabrous at its base and apex, its centre witli 

 roundly curved and irregular strise, and the base of the apical 

 part also glabrous, with a few irregular striae ; spiracular area? 

 coarsely irregularly and obliquely striate, more strongly so 

 apically ; propleurae subglabrous, mesopleiu-a) centrally finely and 

 closely striate except above ; metapleura; finely and irregularly 

 striate below the carinse ; metasternal carina stout, and curved 

 both at the apex and at the dilated base. Scntellum flavous, with 

 its apical half irregularly striate. Abdomen rut'o-testaceous, with 

 the anus from the fifth segment black. Winr/s hj^aline, with 

 stigma and nervures black : the glabrous area Avith a single 

 corneous mark, broadly transverse below and roundly constricted 

 in front, basally round and apically slightly rounded inwardly ; 

 submargiual nervure tx^o-thirds the length of the recurrent, 

 which is more than double its length from it. 



Length '! 



Ceylon {E. E. Green). 



Cameron has entirely omitted to indicate the locality, sex and 

 length of this species, which he notes as being distinct from the 

 Javanese Ophion ^^tlicalus, Brulle (Hist. Nat. Ins. Hyni. iv, p. 145), 

 though it possesses a similarly black-marked mesonotum. I am 

 unacquainted with the species. 



289. Henicospilus striatus, Gam. 



Enicospihis striattis, Cameron, Mancli. Mem. 1899, p. 103 {? S). 



d' $ . A flavous species, with the metanotum striate. Head 

 with the face closely punctate, impi-essed above, with the epistoma 

 tuberculiform, nitidulous and blackish ; mandibles broadly black at 



