428 ICIIKEUMONID-E. 



apically than basally, the third discoidal basally narrowed and 

 pointed. Hind wings with but two completo; cells ; a large 

 anterior, extending to shortly beyond the centre with its apex 

 broadly I'ounded ; and a shorter posterior, not extending to the 

 centre of the anterior, with its apex straight and snboblique, 

 formed by the anterior nervure constituting '■ one piece, it being 

 in one continuous rounded curve ; the second nervure is joined 

 to it by a transverse nervure." 



liangc. Ceylon, 



This genus is said to be closely related to Af/njpon, Porst. 

 {Verb. pr. liheinl. 1S60, p. 151), as defined by Ashinead (Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 1900, p, S9), and to be readily recognised by the 

 total lack of apical uervures in the hind wing. I have not seen 

 the single known species. 



i321. Clatha longipes, Cccm. 



ClatJta longipes, Camerou, Si^oha Zeylauica, 1905, p. 130 (?<5 ). 



A testaceous-red species, with profuse black markings. Head 

 flavous, with the face darker above and the disc of the vertex 

 transversely black. Antenna- black, with their base testaceous 

 beneath. Thorax with a discal luesonotal stripe extending from 

 apex to near base, with a shorter and broader stripe on each 

 lateral lobe, the scutellar fovea, a discal and two lateral stripes on 

 the metanotum, and basal metapleural lines, black ; metanotum 

 closely reticulate ; pleurae coarsely and rugosely reticulate, 

 Avitli the centre of the propleurte striate and with black lines, 

 mesopleurse Mith narrow black lines and centrally striate. 

 Scidellum black at base and apex. Ahdomen with the two basal 

 segments rufescent, as long as the thorax, slender and of (n\\xa\ 

 length, with the first apically broadened (tlie remaining portion 

 missing). Legs densely and shortly pilose ; the anterior yellowish 

 testaceous ; hind ones black, with their coxse, except an external 

 line, testaceous, and their femora ^ith a testaceous ray below. 

 Wings hyaline, ^^itli the stigma and nervures black. 



Length 9 millim. (to the end of the second abdominal segment). 



Ceylox : Kandy {E. E. Green). 



Genus TRICHOMMA, Wesm.^ 

 Trichomma, Wesmael, Bull. Ac. Brux. 1819, p. '2'i. 

 Genotype, Ichneumon enecator, Rossi. 

 Head normally buccate posteriorly, and contracted towards the 



* Aslimead in 1900 revived the name Tiierldiidii, ('urt., for this geuus, since 

 it, was 80 called by Forstei- (Verh. pr. Elieiul. xxv, p. 145) in 1868, thongh he 

 did uot know the reference. The latter's application is, however, entirely 

 arbitrary and incorrect. The genus Thcruoi was erected, with no description, 

 by Curtis iu his '• Guide'" of 1829, col. lUl, and of 1837, col. 112; it is 



