472 iciiSEVUoyiDJE. 



This species appears to be closely allied to Limneria elishce, 

 Bridg. (Trans. Eut. Soc. 1884, p. 426), but it is very much larger 

 and its nietathoracic costula? are distinctly more promiuenl. 



Green bred two males and three females ot" this distinct species 

 from the Cocoanut caterpillar, Nephantis seriopa ; there is a broken 

 specimen, which I fancy may also belong here, in the Piisa collec- 

 tion, bred on 26th October, 1904, from the Pyralid moth, Antejastra 

 catalcmnalis, at Snrat in Bombay. 



'dQo. Dioctes vulgaris, sp. n. 



J 5 . A small black species, with somewhat dense silvery 

 pubescence, the legs mainly aud most of tlie abdomen red ; 

 metanotal areola elongate. Head distinctly constricted behind 

 the glabrous and internally A'ery broadly emarginate eyes ; clypeus 

 Avith no apical tootli or lateral foveie ; face of 5 not apically 

 constricted ; frons deplanate and simple ; mandibles and palpi 

 entirely testaceous. Antennce longer than half the body, filiform 

 and black, with the flagellar joints elongate ; scape clear 

 testaceous, with a single black external line. Thorax immaculate, 

 a little longer than high ; metathorax short, with its petiolar 

 area strongly concave ; areola hexagonal and half as long again as 

 broad, emitting distinct costulas before its centre ; basal area 

 minute and triangular ; lateral carius; strong, spiracles small and 

 oval. /Scutellum black and not convex. Abdomen red, pubescent 

 and strongly compressed from base of the third segment ; basal 

 segment except at its extreme apex, the basal two-thirds of the 

 second except laterally, and in d often base of third segment, 

 black ; first segment elongate and linear to near its suborbicular 

 apex, second finely shagreened aud slightly widened apically, with 

 its conspicuous thyridii red ; 6 valvuhe stout and rufescent ; 

 terebra not longer than half the basal segment, though distinctly 

 exserted, black and subreflexed. Legs somewhat slender but not 

 elongate, clear red, with the autei-ior trochanters basally and the 

 hind ones paler; hind coxae entirely and the extreme base of the 

 intermediate ones black; hind tarsi, apices of their tibise, and 

 base of their femora externally, blackish ; hind metatarsus half 

 the length of its tibia. Winr/s hyaline, with the radix and tegulse 

 stramineous, stigma distnict and piceous ; areolet wanting ; basal 

 nervure slightly postf ureal ; radial cell not broad ; uervellus 

 entire and not geniculate. 



Length 6-7 millim. 



United PhovijS^ces : Mussoori, x. 06 (//. 21. Lefroy) ; Bengal : 

 Chapra {Mack'enzie, type), Pusa, i. 05, and Behar, x. 07 (G. li. Butt 

 — Pusa coll.); Ceylon: Peradeniya, iii. 06 (E. E. Green). 



Type in the Pusa collection. 



This species appears very similar to Hymenohosmina spinipes. 

 Cam., which I do not know, and Cameron makes no mention of 

 the metathoracic spiracles, though in his figure (Joe. cit.) the 



