510 icaxECMOxiD.i:, 



finely punctate, the mesothorax and metapleurao more distinctly 

 so ; notauli deeply impressed ; basal area small and subquadrate ; 

 areola very elongate, hexagonal, and twice as long as broad, with 

 the costula; entire and emitted at the basal third; petiolar area 

 discrete, trans-aciculate,basally stroiig and internally ])arallel-sided. 

 Scutellnm glabrous and subdeplanate, ^\ith no lateral carinaj. 

 Abdomen somewhat dull and closely alutaceous, with tlie anus 

 pilose ; basal segment linear nearly to its centre, and thence 

 gradually a little widened and finely nciculate to apex ; second 

 slightly shorter, dull and finely aciculate throughout ; genital 

 valvula; pale and very sJiglitly exserted ; terebra very slender, and 

 slightly shorter than the abdomen. Le<is with the hind femoral 

 tooth tlavous. Wings hyaline, with the radix and teguhc fulvous, 

 stigma a little dai'ker ; submarginal nervure very slightly longer 

 than its distance from the recurrent ; nervellus geniculate, but 

 not intercepted, distinctly below its centre. 



Length 7-S millim. 



The 5 has the basal half of the second and third abdominal 

 ■segments alone discally blackish. 



Bexgal : Chapra {Mackenzie, type) ; Central Provinces : 

 JS^agpur (Pusa coll.); Madras : Attur (Pusa coll.), Kulattupuzha, 

 in Travancore, si. 08 {N. Annandale). 



Ti/jJe in the Pusa collection. 



Specimens in the Pusa collection have been bred from the 

 VyruMdmoths, Euzo2)Jio)'a 2)€''ticdla, Rag., and Leucinodes orbonalis, 

 •<jruen. 



Genus PRISTOMERIDIA, Ashn. 

 Pristomeridia, Ashmead, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. 1900, p. 100. 

 Genotype, Porizon agilis, Cressou. 



This genus was differentiated from Pristomerus by its entire 

 and not geniculate or intercepted nervellus, pentagonal and not 

 hexagonal areola, the scarcely thickened hind femora, the tooth of 

 -which is near the apex and not merely slightly beyond the centre. 

 It was erected for the reception of a single species, described 

 from Texas by Cresson (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1S72, p. 175), 

 and referred by him, with some hesitation, to the genus Porizon. 

 Our Indian insect certainly belongs here, though the areola 

 is hexagonal and the femoral tooth is at some distance from the 

 apex. 



Range. J^earctic Region, India. 



402. Pristomeridia secunda, sp. n. 



5 . A small, black species, with the legs, abdomen, and antenna) 

 partly pale. Head a little broader than the thorax, with, the 

 vertex transvei'se and the confluent scrobes trans-aciculate above 

 the antennae ; eyes internally entii-e and parallel ; face shining, 

 ■distinctly punctate, and a little elevated centrally ; clypeus discrete, 



