474 icHXErMONiD.i:. 



convex ; postscutellum with dense silvery pubescence. Ahdomea 

 broadest behind centre, distinctly punctiite, apically smoother and 

 shining, with the second segment not aciciilate ; postpetiole 

 distinctly dilated; second and third segments basally constricted, 

 laterally and all the following entirely bright red; terebra slightly 

 longer than the basal segment or oue-third the abdominal length, 

 with the spicula retlexed. Ler/s red, with tlie anterior paler ; 

 hind ones with coxa?, base of femora and tibiic, ii])ices of latter and 

 of tarsi, black ; claws spinulose, IVinys liyaliue and not ample, 

 teguUe tlavesceut, stigma and nervnres black ; areolet ^\•auting ; 

 svibmargiual emitted before, and only one-third shorter than, the 

 second recurrent ; basal nervure subcontinuous ; radial cell long 

 and subacuminate at both extremities ; all apical nervures in hind 

 wing entirely wanting ; nervellus straight and not intercepted. 



Length 9 millim. 



Central Proyixces: Nagpur (Pusa coll.); Bombay: Deesa, 

 vi. 98 (Col. JS^urse, type). 



Ti/j^e in Col. Nurse's collection. 



Cameron's description of the legs and shape of the metathoracic 

 spiracles is very faulty. Unfortunately, he had formed a 

 misconception of the spiracular shape, and, as a matter of fact, so 

 far from being related to Zaporus, this species difters from his own 

 genus Bosmina only in having the metathoracic spiracles circular 

 and the apex of the scutellum not margined. Its facies is stouter, 

 the abdomen is broader apically and its petiole is not quite so 

 elongate. 



I have di-awn the above description from the type. In the 

 Pusa collection are eleven specimens, all females, from Nagpur, 

 one bred from tlie Noctuid moth, Ckinidrina (w'ujua, Guen., 

 and attached to its owu luiicolorous brown, hairy, cylindrical 

 cocoon, which is abi-uptly rounded and of equal breadth at both 

 extremities ; one of the others was bred from a similar cocoon. 



368. Dioctes albicalcar, sp. n. 



cJ $ . A small black species with 

 somewhat dense silvery pubescence, 

 the legs and abdomen apically rufes- 

 cent, metanotal areola transverse and 

 the calcaria pale. 



Length millim. 



Bengal : Pusa, iv. 06 and iv. 07 

 (Pusa coll.); Assam: ^hillong, v. 05 

 {Rowland Turner). 



Ti/pe 2 ill the British Museum. 



Very closely allied to the last 

 Fig. 13'). species and only differing in its 



Dioctes cdbkah'cu; Mori. immaculate black scape; the trans- 



versely triangular areola, which 

 is confluent with the elongate petiolar area ; the nou-acicidate 



