52 P- CAMERON. 



the central is about as wide as long, transverse at the base and apex, and with the sides 

 bulging out roundly ; the lateral marks are larger ; their base is straight and slightly 

 oblique ; their outer side is rounded outwardly ; on the inner they are obliquely narrowed. 

 On the base of the median segment are two black, ovoid marks, placed transversely, the 

 broad end on the outer side ; the basal area is wider than long ; it becomes gradually, but 

 not greatly, widened towards the apex, which is transverse ; the outer basal areae are wider 

 than long; the area next to it, in front, is triangular, oblique, and longer than the width 

 of the base, where the bounding keel bulges out. Pleurae smooth and shining. Wings 

 clear hyaline ; the nervures and stigma are black ; the areolet is distinctly appendiculated. 

 Legs coloured like the body ; the hinder tibiae are black at the base. On the abdomen 

 are twelve black marks; the pair on the petiole are broader than long, and have a short, 

 sharp projection on the inner side at the base ; the second pair are small ; the third are 

 the largest; are about as wide as long and rounded on the inner side; the fourth pair are 

 smaller and somewhat similar in shape ; the fifth distinctly wider than long ; the sixth are 

 still wider, but not so long; there are no marks on the sixth and apical segments. In the 

 ^ there are no marks on the second segment ; that on the fourth is very small ; in 

 the middle of the last segment are two curved oblique furrows. 



2. Enicospilas reticulatus, sp. nov. 



Luteo ; abdominis apice nigro ; metanoto reticulate ; alis hyalinis, stigmate fusco. $ . 



Long. 14 mm. 



Hab. Hulule, Male Atoll, Maldives. 



Antennae luteous, darker towards the apex. The sides of the face and the clypeus 

 have a yellowish tinge. The face is finely wrinkled in the middle and punctured on either 

 side ; the clypeus is smooth and indistinctly punctured at the base ; the labrum wants the 

 yellow tint of the clypeus; the vertex and the eye orbits have a distinct yellowish tint. 

 Mandibular teeth black. Mesonotum fuscous, except at the base and sides. The scutellar 

 keels are stout ; the apex is closely, longitudinally striated. The base of the median seg- 

 ment is smooth, with the sides irregularly striated; the rest of it is irregularly, distinctly 

 reticulated; on the apex the reticulations are oblique and less distinct in the middle below. 

 Pro- and meso-pleurae closely punctured, the middle of the pro- and the lower part of the 

 meso- closely striated. The metapleurae above shagreened ; the lower apical part bears some 

 striae. Wings clear hyaline ; the stigma and nervures fuscous ; the basal abscissa of the 

 cubitus is thickened, the basal two-thirds being thicker than the apical part; there are 

 two distinct horny points ; the lower one is dilated and rounded behind ; its upper part forms 

 a somewhat triangular shape ; the apical point is somewhat oval in shape. Legs coloured 

 like the body; the hinder tarsi are shortly but distinctly longer than the tibiae; the anterior 

 twice their length. 



The transverse median nervure is received shortly behind the transverse basal ; the re- 

 current nervure is bullated on the top ; the disco-cubital nervure more widely in front 

 of it. 



