436 ICllXEUMUMD.t. 



with white pilosity, strongly transverse, with the eniargiuate 

 eyes not at all prominent ; occiput sloi)ing from the remote 

 ocelli and not tanar<j;iuate : frous and face deplanate ; clypeus not 

 discrete, apicxilly mar<iined and hroadly rounded ; clu'eks as long- 

 as the base of the tlavous and apicully equidentate mandibles ; 

 palpi Havous. Antennae with the scrobes circular, carinate and 

 very far apart ; tlagellum black and liliform, becoming attenuate 

 apically and extending a little beyond the postpetiole ; sca])e and 

 pediceilus clear fulvous, witli an external black mark. ThorcLv 

 black, scabrous, with the mesonotum sub])unctate and anteriorly 

 abruptly declivous ; notauli wautiug ; metanotum witli long liairs, 

 and with very indefinite traces of basal arete only ; petiolar area 

 not impressed ; pleurae subreticulate, with the metapleura^ trans- 

 strigose ; spiracles large, elongate and transverse. Scutellum 

 broader than long, deplanate, scabrous, pilose, black, with its 

 apex very broad and truncate. Abdomen strongly compressed 

 from the second segment, red, with the disc and lateral margin 

 and apex of first, disc of third basally, and the anus, black ; basal 

 segment linear and pale fulvous to beyond its apical third and 

 thence very strongly and suborbicularly rounded to apex, longer 

 than second ; d" cerci exserted, terebra short and hardly longer 

 than third segment. Le(is bright flavous and not elongate, with 

 all the coxce, except apices of front ones, black ; hind femora clear 

 red, with their tibiie and tarsi darker ; calcaria stout and half the 

 length of the spinulose metatarsus. Wiwjs clear hyaline, with the 

 tegulse pale fulvous, radix flavous, costa and stigma black, with 

 the latter below and the base of the radius red ; nervures disposed 

 as in C. deciinens, except that the uervellus is not at all geniculate 

 and verv obsoletely intercepted far below its centre. 



LetKjtli 9^ millim. 



Assam : Margherita (Ind. Mus.) ; Bengal : Calcutta, xii. 07 

 (Ind. Mus.), Chapra (Madenzie), Pusa, x. and xi.05 (Pusa coll.); 

 Ceylox: Colombo, Mullaitiva and Kandy (0. -S. W-ichvar). 



Type in the British JMuseum. 



This is a very representative species of a peculiar genus, but 

 no one could have recognised AValker's species without examining 

 tlie typical male, which was captured by Dr. Thwaites in Ceylon. 

 A male in the Pusa collection was bred from an ochreous black- 

 spotted cocoon four millimetres in length, which is obviously 

 pendulous, since a thread of many strands, some ten millimetres 

 ju length, is still attached to the extremity furthest from that 

 nearly in the centi-e of which the imago has cut a subcircular 

 emergence hole. 



326. Charops obtusus, sp. n. 



(5 § . A black species, with the legs partly and the abdomen 

 hardly red. Ih'cid dull and scabrously punctate throughout, with 

 white pilosity, strongly transverse, with tlie emarginate eyes not 

 at all prominent ; occiput sloping from the remote ocelli and not 



