CREMASTUS. 501 



Haiidl. 185S, p. IDS). Van Yollenhoven described a cT of this 

 genus under the name C. halteaius in 1878 (Tijds. Ent. xxi, p. Hi8, 

 pi. X, iig. 6), from Breda, which Dalla Torre (Cat. Hym. iii. p. 33) 

 has erroneously I'endered Batavia, in Java. 



3U4. Cremastus uoxiosiis, sp. u. 



c? 2 . A bright tiavous species with profuse black markings. 

 Head Havous, with the mandibular apices and interocellar space 

 black ; frous and vertex finely punctate and dull, scrobes small and 

 superficial ; face transverse, dull and a little convex, with the 

 epistoma subprominent longitudiually, and the apically sharply 

 rounded clypeus strongly discrete basally. Antenna' as long as the 

 body, very slender, dark, with the scape and flagellar base testaceous 

 beneath. Tliorax deplanate and some\\hat eloagate, red in 6 or 

 black in $ , with two narrow stripes on the finely and distinctly 

 punctate mesonotum and the preradical lines flavoiis ; frenum and 

 the whole disc of the metathorax black; arese very distinct ; basal 

 area elongate and ti'iangular : areola hardly twice as long as broad 

 at the basal third, whence the strong costul^e are emitted, and 

 distinctly discrete from the basally rounded and apically pax'allel- 

 sided petiolar area which extends far above the hind coxae. 

 ScuteUuni subconvex, bright flavous and punctate. Abdomen dis- 

 cally black and ventrally flavous, linear, with the strongly 

 aciculate second segment not broader than the base of the third, 

 and as long as the first segment ; basal segment parallel-sided to 

 centre and thence exactly fusiform to its apex, which is hardly 

 broader than the petiole and very finely aciculate ; terebra black, 

 very slender and about half the length of the abdomen. Lerjs 

 testaceous, with the anterior coxae substramineous ; hind tibia? 

 blackish at base and apex. Wings broad and somewhat ample ; 

 I'adix and tegulfe flavescent, stigma and nervures dull ochreous ; 

 radial cell short and apically straight ; submarginal nervure longer 

 than half the recurrent, which is emitted not very closely beyond 

 it ; basal nervure contiiuious ; nervelhis opposite and neither 

 geniculate nor intercepted. 



Length 5-6 millim. 



Bengal : Pusa, i. 06 and xi. < 17. 



Type in the Pusa collection. 



Extremely similar to the species of Targtia, but at once recog- 

 nised by the interc-eption of the external cubital nervure by the 

 second recurrent distinctly beyond the submarginal. 



A unique pair of this pretty little species was bred at the 

 Agricultural Kesearch Institute at Pusa from the Pyralid moth, 

 Antigastra catalaunalis. There, too, is a male with the occiput, 

 antennae, thorax and abdomen almost entirely black, I'endei'- 

 ing it superficially very distinct in appearance, though 1 find no 

 structural distinctions and propose to term it var. nigrescens; 

 it was bred from the hairy caterpillar of the Arctiid moth, 



