326 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. VIII, 



Thymaris clotho, Mori. 



Faun. Brit. India, Icliii., 1913, p. 53- 



The second known specimen of this Ceylonese species was 

 captured at Dibrugarh between the 17th and 19th November, 191 1 . 

 This ? differs from the type only in having the two basal seg- 

 ments black with the second only basally rufescent, and the 

 third basally flavidous. The figure in Fauna India is very poor, 

 showing the abdomen too stout, terebra too thick, wings too 

 -broad and flagellum much too short; the last is, in fact, a milli- 

 metre longer than the whole body. 



Diaparsis sp. 



One female belonging to this genus was met with at Dibrugarh 

 between the 17th and 19th November, 191 1. It is certainly dis- 

 tinct from the onl}^ known Indian kind, my D. caudata; but its 

 condition precludes description. 



Cnemocryptus epistomatus, Mori., sp. n. 



A black and shining species with thescutellum and abdominal 

 base white, the legs and abdominal centre red. Head transverse 

 and as broad as thorax, obsoletely punctate with the frons glab- 

 rous and excarinate; palpi white; mandibles rufescent with the 

 upper tooth a little the longer and clypeus apicall}^ truncate; face 

 closely punctate and centrally tuberculiformly elevated. Anten- 

 nae stout and black with a broad central white band ; of cf sub- 

 attenuate at both extremities with scape white, and flagellar base 

 rufescent, beneath; of 9 strongly dilato-compressed be5''ond their 

 centre. Thorax convex and finely punctate, with strong notauli; 

 pronotum and a callosity beneath radices white ; mesopleurae sul- 

 cate below ; metathorax subglabrous with all the areae clearly de- 

 fined and petiolar area discreted; areola longer than broad, hexa- 

 gonal, emitting costulae before its centre; spiracles longer than 

 broad, apophyses wanting. Scutellum and postscutellum white, 

 the former glabrous and convex. Abdomen subfusiform, black 

 and slightly pilose with the sixth and following segments white ; 

 petiole also white with postpetiole and part of second segment 

 bright red ; terebra nearly as long as first segment. Legs red 

 with the anterior of o' paler ; hind femora and tibiae more or less 

 infuscate or black with base of latter rufescent, and the second to 

 fourth tarsal joints with apex of the first pure white. Wings 

 ample and hyaline ; radix white, areolet large and parallel-sided, 

 emitting the recurrent nervure from its centre ; basal nervure 

 continuous, nervellus geniculate at its lower third. Length, 

 6-8 mm. cf 9 . 



A single pair was captured at Sadiya on 27th November, 191 1, 

 by Mr. S. W. Kemp and is in the Indian Museum. No. "Ixr, 



