and the le^s, |);ile leshiceoiis ; tlie abdomen beiieatli and the base 

 of the antennae iafusc.itB testaceous; the \\in>;-.s subinfmuate, 

 with the nervures and stigma bhick ; the abdomen nearly sessile, 

 narrow, with its underside concavely depressed and tlie segments 

 A^ery narrowly maro-ined with red ; the hind femora basally, and 

 the coxaj and apices of the tibiae pieeous. 



LeiKjth about o millim. 



Cevlox : Xuwara Ehya (fcste Motscliulskv). 



I c:vn do no more than reproduce Motschulsky's description, as 

 aio one has nientioiieil tlie species since his time^ and I have seen 

 no individuals that could be referred to it ; he only adds that the 

 ■breadth of the head is one-sixth the length of the body. 



404. Porizon meridionalis, sp. n. 



d" $ . A black species, with the abdomen, tegula;, scape, and 

 .legs more or less broadly red. Head narrow and very strongly 

 transverse, black, with the glabrous clypeal apex, the elongately 

 bidentate mandibles, and tlie palpi, red ; vertex very narrow, with 

 distinct aud even punctures extending to the circularly sub- 

 prominent epistoma, thence becoming subconfluent laterally aud 

 a little liner apically to base of the subdiscrete and apically 

 •unevenly rounded clypeus. Aatennoi quite tlliform and imrdly 

 longer than the head and thorax, black, with the scape ochraceous ; 

 flagellar joints subpilose and well discrete. Thorax immaculate 

 black and hardly longer than high ; mesonotum dull and closely 

 punctate, with somewhat strong but indefinite notauli, coalesciii"- 

 discally ; metatborax very short, with a strong and discrete 

 petiolar area ; lateral carina) strong ; spiracles small, circular, and 

 tacing upwards. Scutelhiiu black and dull. AfjUonwa glabrous 

 and nitidulous, nearly double the length of the head and thorax, 

 red; in $ with the whole first and extreme base of the second 

 segment black, in J with the whole first and the base of all the 

 following segments broadly black; basal segment glabrous aud 

 .nitidulous, with elongate petiole and the spiracles distinctly 

 heyond its centre at the strong subapical arcuation ; thyridii 

 distinct ; terebra shorter than tiie abdomen, Leijs not elongate 

 or determinately rufescent ; hind coxae, and in d" their femora, 

 blackish. Winr/s broad and somewhat short, hvaline, with the 

 iiroad stigma black and the tegulae rufescent : radial cell trapezi- 

 forin, areolet wanting ; second recurrent nervure fenestrate above 

 and emitted slightly beyond the submarginal ; basal nervure not 

 continuous through the median; neuration of lower wings very 

 weak, with tiu' nervellus not interrupted, subopposite and quite 

 straight. 



Length 5-0 millim. 



Bluim.v: Karen Hills, 3000-3700 ft., viii. 8S {L. Fca). 



Tijpc in the Genoa Civic Museum. 



Described from a single ])air. A small female, in verv bad 

 •condition, in the Oxford Museum, appears to belong to the .same 

 :species ; it was tak',"J by Dr. Thwaitea in Cevlon in 1872. 



