440 .ICHNEUMOXIU.i:, 



pleurse and rnetathorax with dense silvery hairs ; the hitter witli 

 live clearly defined area", besides a small central one at the base ; 

 the spiracular region with two complete keels and strongly trans- 

 versely punctured ; i)ropleura3 centrally carinate, mesopleiu'a) 

 punctate and centrally aciculate, with the metapleura? more 

 strongly punctate. Abdomen red, with the basal segment (except 

 apically) and the l)asal third of the second, black ; terebra very 

 shortly exserted, with tlie valvulre black. Leys red, witli the 

 front coxae and trochanters tiavous ; tibiae and tarsi somewhat 

 strongly spinose ; coxa? and femora with white pubescence ; spines 

 of claws stout. Wi)ir/s hyaline, with the tegulae flavous, the 

 nervures and stigma dark. 



Length 8 millim. 



Assam : Khasi Hills (RotJmei/). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



.■)29. Hymenobosmina trichoptilus, Cam. 



Hi/menohosm'ma frichoptUns, Cameron, Spolia Zeyl. vi, 1910, 

 p. 40(cT). 



<S . Black, with broad testaceous markings, llead finely and 

 closely punctate, the face, clypeus and cheeks with densely pale 

 pubescence ; mandibles (except apically) flavous and the palpi 

 paler ; frons and vertex sparsely pilose. Antenna' 27-jointed and 

 nearly as long as the body ; scape fulvo-testaceous ; flagellum 

 shortly and densely pubescent, with the five or seven basal joints 

 dull testaceous. Thorax with pale pubescence on all the pleural 

 and the rnetathorax ; mesonotum closely, and metanotum more 

 sparsely, punctate, the latter with two externally dilated basal 

 are£e, " their keels unite at the base, forming almost an area, 

 widened towards the base " ; areola distinct, longer than broad, 

 basally acuminate and apically truncate ; petiolar area discrete 

 and centrally traus-striate ; metapleura? finely and closely punc- 

 tate, carinate below the spiracles and above the hind coxae. 

 /Scutellum finely and closely punctate. Abdomen with the apex of 

 'first, apical third of second, and sides of third to sixth segments, 

 testaceous ; petiole smooth and shining, with the postpetiole 

 dilated ; second ventral segment flavous, the remainder with 

 testaceous and blackish markings. /jc<js fulvo-testaceous, with 

 the anterior coxae and trochanters subflavescent ; hind coxaj 

 (except apicnlly), apices of their tibiaa and their tarsi, black. 

 Wings hyaline, with the stigma dark, the costa and nervures 

 blackish ; basal nervure continuous ; second recurrent nervure 

 broadly, and the discocubital, fenestrate ; hind \\ing with the 

 apical nervures obsolete. 



Length 4 millim. 



Ceylon : Galle (T. Bainbrigge Fletclier). 



Type. Location unknown. 



Bred by Mr. Fletcher diiring December frojn Trlclioptihis 

 oxydactylus. 



