TRICnOMMA. — METAXOMALON". 431 



In Europe, the species of this genus are known to prey upon a 

 very few of the larger Tortricid moths, but Mr. Green has bred 

 the present species from tlie hirval case of a Tineid moth. 



323. Trichomma productor, IJorl. 



Trichomma productor, Morley, Rev. Iclm. Erit. ^lus. ii, 1913, p. G6. 



cJ . A linear black species, with the face, orbits and hind tarsi 

 alone flavous ; legs and abdomen nearly entirely I'ed ; scutellum 

 strongly deplanate and black ; metauotuin elongately produced 

 above the petiole. 



Length 14-15 millim. 



United Pkotixces : Mussoori, x. OG (//. M. Lefrou — Pusa coll.). 



Type in the author's collection. 



This species has much the facies of T. nujricans, but differs in 

 many details of botli structure and colour. The head is similarly 

 coloured, but with the frons and vertex much more scabrously 

 punctate ; face with longer pubescence ; mesonotal notauli 

 Avanting, with no pale anteradical lines ; metanotum more finely 

 sculptured, with the apical metathoracic ])rocess occupying fully a 

 third of its total length and quite parallel-sided ; scuti'llum black, 

 quadrate, strongly deplanate and centrally sulcate ; nbdoinen red, 

 Avith the disc of the second segment alone black, and the anus 

 hardly darkened ; all the legs red, with the apices of the hind 

 tibi?B alone black ; hind coxae cylindrical and much narrower ; 

 internal cubital nervure much less sinuate and the anal emitted 

 distinctly further from cejitre of the first recurrent nervure. The 

 ■eyes are nmch less distinctly pubescent. 



I have examined two males of this species. 



Genus METANOMALON, MorJ. 

 Metanomcdoii, [Morley, Rev. Ichn. Brit. Mils, ii, 1913, p. 58. 

 Gexottpe, j\I. 2^oUendii.m,'.s'p. ny ' >> 



Eyes glabrous, strongly approximating apically and not 

 internally emarginate; face constricted to the discrete and 

 tuberculiform clypeus ; frons tr;ins-sulcate above the scrobes, with 

 neither carina Jior horn. Antenna) very slender and filiform, with 

 the elongate flagellar joints cylindrical ; scape pale, short and 

 obliquely truncate. Thorax not unusually pubescent ; mesonotum 

 entirely glabrous and very strongly nitidulous, with its central 

 lobe considerably elevated ; nctauli very deeply impressed and 

 strongly crenulate, deteriniiiately coalescing discally; inetatliorax 

 shining, sparsely sculptured, with distinct area) and its ajiex not 

 produced above base of the hind coxtu ; spiracles circular. 

 iScutellum entirely glabrous, very strongly nitidulous and bordei-ed 

 to near apex, Postpetiole not or hardly thicker than the petiole ; 

 :*econd segment centrally impressed, linear, distinctly longer than 

 the first and double the length of the third. Hind legs with 

 the tarsi not or hardly dilated; calcaria longer than apical 

 width of tibiic; claws minute, femora and tibiic basally constricted. 



