458 ICHXEUMONIU.E. 



348. Campoplex lapponicvis, llolimj. (Plate I, fig. 0.) 



Cmnpoj)le.c lapponicus, Iloliugren, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 37; 

 Fiirster, Verli. z.-b. Ges. 1868, p. 872; Holmgren, Bill. Sv. 

 V.-A. IJiindl. 1872, p. ol ; cf. Tliomsoii, Opu?*c. Ent. xi, p. 107."., 

 et BiLschke, Sclir. Nat. Ges' Danz. 1891, p. (55 (d' $). 



Campople.c ca/lizo)ia.t, FiJroter, Verli. z.-b. Ge.s. 18(18, p. ■'^03 (2). 



Canipojjk'.r (/reetti, Cameron, Spolia Zeylanica, V.)i)'), p. 127 (?). 



(^ $ . A black .species, with the centre of the abdomen and part 

 of the leg.s rufescent. Head very little constricted po.steriorly, 

 closely punctate and with dense silvery pubescence ; Irons not 

 impressed, scrobes simple ; mandibles ferruginous throughout, 

 and basally with white pubescence ; ])alpi dark testaceous. 

 Antennce immaculate. Thorax distinctly and closely punctate, 

 with dense silvery pubescence; on the base of the metanotum 

 are two roundly curved keels, forming two arese, which are as 

 long as wide; tlie centre is depressed and trausvei'sely striated 

 closely above, more widely and broadly below ; pleurae less closely 

 punctate than mesonotum, propleurie sinuately aud obliquely 

 striate centrally and below, central apical impression of meso- 

 pleurt^ closely and regidarly striate. Abdomen black, with tiie 

 third to fifth segments alone bright red ; terebra exserted. J^<'f/s 

 black, with the front tarsi, tibiae, and apices of their femora, testa- 

 ceous ; intermediate femora near apices, and often their tibiae more 

 broadlv basally, testaceous ; calcaria concolorous. Wiii[/s hjaMne, 

 with the stigma infuscate and the nervures black ; areolet tri- 

 angular and shortly petiolate, emitting the recurrent nervure 

 before its centre ; nervellus geniculate below its centre ; basal 

 abscissa of radius half as long again as the recurrent nervure. 



Lenritli 9-12 millim. 



N.W. JFeontieii Pkovixce : Peshawur {Capt. E. Y. Watson) ; 

 PuxJAB : Simla and Kasauh, v. 08 {N. AnnanduJe) ; United 

 Phovixces: Mussoori, \i. 0-i:(E. Bnmetti — Ind. Mus.) ; Sikkim : 

 Darjiliug, -x. 05 {E. Jiranetti — Ind. Mus.) ; Ceylox : Pundaluoya 

 and llatton, ii. (E. E. Green). 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



Bridgnum (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 420) records this species 

 as having been bred in England from the Greometrid moth, 

 Melanippe hastata; he describes its cocoons as "palish brown, 

 sometimes ashy and uniform in tint"; and remarlvs upon the 

 distinctness of the species, the terebra of which is about as long 

 as the basal segment. 1 possess one of his bred specimens. 



349. Campoplex prytanes, Cam. 



Campoplex pr'/fones, Caiueron, Zeits. IIvni.-Dipt. iii, 1903, p. 339" 

 ($)• 



5 . Head black, with the mandibles (except basally) and the 

 palpi testaceous ; face closely, and the clypeus a little more 



