100 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 



lines, narrowed in front, on the centre of the mesonotura, the apical 

 half of the seutellum, the mark dilated laterally at the base, post, 

 scutellum and the apices of the second to fifth abdominal segments 

 narrowly, the penultimate more broadly, and the last entirely, yellow ; 

 the second segments broadly at the base rufous ; antennae with a 

 broad white band in the middle ; legs red ; the four front coxae and 

 trochanters yellow ; the hind black , red , and yellow. Wings hyaline , 

 slightly tinged with fulvous, the nervures and stigma black, ?. 

 Length 15-16 mm. 

 Kandy, July. 



Head smooth, mandibles red, black at apex. On the centre and 

 on the sides of the clypeus is a reddish mark. Pro thorax and meso- 

 thorax closely punctured ; the scutellum smooth. Median segment 

 more closely and strongly punctured ; the apical slope thickly covered 

 with white hair ; the areola open at the base, twice longer than 

 broad ; the inner side furrowed ; it is of equal width throughout 

 and has the apex roundly curved inwardly. Disco-cubital and 

 recurrent nervures broken by a stump of a nervure. Apical half of 

 post-petiole strongly punctured ; the gastrocoeli shallow, yellowish. 

 Agrees fairly well with Melanichneumon. Scutellum not quite flat, 

 depressed at base and apex round, longer than the width at the base. 



2. — Hoplismenus ceylonicus, sp. no v. 



Black; the face, clypeus, the orbits all round, mandibles, palpi, 

 a line on the pronotum, tubercles, two hnes on the centre of the 

 mesonotum, the apical half of scutellum, the base of the mark trans- 

 verse, apex of post-scutellum, and the apices of aU the abdominal 

 segments, pale yellow ; the apex of the first segment has the hne 

 broader than it is on the third and following ; on the apex of the 

 second the band is twice the width it is on the first and there is a 

 broader band on its base. Legs red ; the four front coxae and trochan- 

 ters yellow ; the hind coxae black, the apex red below, above they 

 are yellow. Wings hyaline, the stigma and nervures black. Antennal 

 scape and a broad band on the centre of the fiagellum white ; the 

 flagellum brownish beneath, especially on the basal half, 6. 



Length 14 mm. 



Kandy. 



Face and cl5^eus thickly covered with short, white pubescence 

 and sparsely punctured ; lab rum white, largely projecting. Pro- 

 mesonotum and scutellum smooth, the latter obliquely sloped at the 

 baseandapex. Propleurae and raesopleurae smooth. Base of metano- 

 tum and areola smooth, the rest strongly punctured ; the posterior 

 median area irregularly rugose ; the apical slope and inetapleurae 



