TROPHOCAJVrPA. 475- 



second abdominal segment ; tlie abdomen red from the centre of 

 the second segment ; the terebra shorter than the basal segment 

 and strongly retlexed ; all the coxie and trochanters black ; all the 

 calcaria stout and very pale stramineous. 



I have seen only a single female, and there are two males in the 

 Pusa collection. 



Genus TROPHOCAMPA, >Schm. 

 Trophocampa, Schraiedeknecht, Hym. Mittelearop. 1907, p. 598. 

 Genotype, not cited. 



Head transverse and posteriorly constricted, with the eyes 

 distinctly emargiuate internally and the face hardly constricted 

 apically. Antennie about half the length of the body, Meta- 

 thorax longitudinally impressed centrally, often with some traces 

 of basal areaj ; areola wanting ; spiracles circular or shortly oval. 

 Abdomen, at least apically, strongly compressed ; terebra distinctly 

 a little exserted. Areolet entire and subregular. 



Miou/e. Palfearctic Eegion. 



This genus was recently erected for the reception of those 

 species of Camjmplex witli circular or subspherical metathoracic 

 spiracles and differs in no other feature, excepting tlie extension 

 of the epipleuras to the apex of the third segment. 



369. Trophocampa iiidubia, sp. u. 



5 . A blade species with white pubescence, the abdomen mainly 

 red and the anterior legs stramineous. Bead strongly constricted 

 posteriorly, A\ith the palpi and mandibles tlavescent, Antenme 

 longer than half the body and apically attenuate, with the two 

 basal flagellar joints subeqiial in length. Thorax longer than high, 

 dull and alutaceously punctate ; metathorax obliquely declivous 

 and witli white hairs throughout, centrally impressed, but with no 

 arese ; spiracles circular. ScuteUum a little convex. Abdomen 

 discally linear, with the third and following segments strongly 

 compressed and red, apex of the second red; basal segment much 

 longer than the hinti coxa^ and trochanters, with the postpetiole 

 ovate and longer than broad ; second segment more than twice as 

 long as broad and obsoletely alutaceous, shghtly widened apically 

 and narro\\ly red laterally from the thyridii ; third half as lono- 

 again as the breadth of its black base ; terebra as long as the 

 second segment. Leejs black, with tlie anterior tibiae and front 

 femora stramineous; hind tibiae centrally fulvescent and, at 

 extreme base, white before the subbasal dark fascia. Winqs 

 hyaline, with the stigma black and the teguIjB pale ; radial cell 

 twice as long as broad and apically straight; areolet elono-atelv 

 petiolate, emitting the recurrent ]ier\ ure beyond its centre; 

 nervellus neither geniculate nor intercepted. 



Length 10 millim. 



United Provinces : Pdiim Thai, Kumaon, 4oUU ft., ix. 07. 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



