80 SPOLTA ZEYLANICA. 



14. — P}i(uier()to)na liendecaxi sella, sp. nov. 



Pallid ferrufi^inous to pale testaceous, the apical segment 

 lerruginous : antennje infuscated at the apex : wings clear 

 hyaline, the stisrma and uervures fuscous, the former paler at the 

 base and apex, 6 antl 9. 



Length 3 to 4 mm. 



Peradeniya July to December. 



Bred from beans (Canavalia,sip.) bored by minute pyralid (•') 

 and from buds otJasininuni pubeacens infested by larvEe of Hendr- 

 casts duplifascialis, Hmpsn. 



Antennae 23-jointed, longer than the body. Head shagreened; 

 temples roundly narrowed, occiput deeply roundly incised; cly- 

 peus shining, almost smooth, thickly covered with long pale hair; 

 its sides above with a large, deep fovea. Mesonotum coarsely 

 shagreened, its apex obscurely striated ; parapsidal furrows only 

 indicated. The suture at the base of scutellum crenulated. 

 Scutellum triangular ; its lateral slope stoutly obliquely striated ; 

 at its apex is a broad shining black transverse stripe. Meta- 

 notum more coarsely shagreened — almost punctured — than the 

 mesonotum : there is a not very strong transverse keel across 

 the middle, above the apical slope ; the sides below this project 

 into a blunt tooth or tubercle. Apex of propleurai obscurely 

 striated ; the lower part, at the apex, depressed, with a few distinct 

 short keels. Basal two segments of abdomen shagreened ; the 

 apical at the base finely, closely reticulated — punctured, the 

 middle and, to a less extent, the apex, finely, closely, longitudi- 

 nally striated ; the dorsal sutures obscurely crenulated. Second 

 cubital cellule much narrowed at the apex, the nervures almost 

 touching there ; the basal abscissa of the radius bounding it is 

 straight and sharply oblique, the abscissa of the cubitus broadly 

 roundly curved, pale at the base ; the recurrent nervure intersti- 

 tial; it and the first transverse cubital nervure are pale, but quite 

 clearly defined. The apex of the hind femora and the hind tibiae 

 ferruginous ; the extreme base of the latter and a broad baud 

 above the middle are pallid, almost white. The basal depression 

 of the abdomen is bordered by a keel, which is very faint, if not 

 absent from the middle. 



The first and second abscissae of the radius are roundly curved 

 downwards, the two forming an arc of a circle ; the first trans- 

 verse cubital nervure is straight, oblique to the stigma, then 

 bends to run along side it to the radius, which it joins close to 

 its base, quite close to the stigma. The wings are unclouded and 

 highly iridescent. The second transverse cubital nervure is 

 very faint and not half the length of the recurrent nervure. 



