112 SPOLTA ZEYX<ANTCA. 



17. — Fenenias erythropus, sp. nov. 

 Plate A. fig. 14. 



Black, very shining, the centre of the face and clypeus, the latter 

 more widely than the former ; tlie inner orbits narrowly from near 

 the bottom and round the top. the lower two-thirds of the outer, 

 base of mandibles and palpi, a narrow line on the apical half of the 

 pronotura, the base below, a transverse small mark on the apex of 

 the middle lobe of the mesonotuni, scutellar keels, apex of scutellum. 

 the mark longer than broad ; a line on the centre of the apical slope 

 of the metanotum, followed downwards, on either side, by a similar 

 line of the same length and united to a mark on the middle , which is 

 longer than broad and of equal width ; tubercles, a pyriform mark 

 on the lower part of the mesopleurse near the base, a smaller, some- 

 what similar mark on the lower side at the apex, a stripe along the 

 lower side of the furrow, the usual mark under the hind wings, an 

 oblique mark near the apex of the metapleura? and narrow lines on 

 the apices of the abdominal segments (the apical interrupted), pale 

 yellow. Legs red ; the anterior at the base and the hind tarsi yellow- 

 i.><li. Wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma black , ? . 



Length 8 mm.; terebra 4 mm. 



Paradeniya, September. 



Face and upper part of clypeus distinctly punctured, the former 

 more closely and rugosely above. Vertex punctured in the centre ; 

 the front clearly separated from it and with a steep slope. Mesono- 

 tum distinctly, but not very closely or coarsely, punctured; the 

 furrows deep, wider and striated towards the apex ; they do not 

 extend near to the scutellum, which is finely, very sparsely punctured , 

 its lateral slope is stoutly, obliquely striated at the base, the rest 

 with some elongated punctures. Base of metanolum with a smooth, 

 deep, oblique depression : in the middle is an indistinct U-shaped 

 keel ; the centre is irregularly reticulated : the sides nmch more 

 finely and regulaily reticulated. The apical slope is depressed in 

 the centre and closely, transversely , irregularly striated — reticulated ; 

 there is no transverse basal keel ; the apical is not very distinctly 

 defined, especially in the centre : the teeth are broad and blunt. 

 Propleurse strongly striated except for a punctured space above and 

 the base below, which is smooth. Mesopleurae closely punctured, 

 coarsely, irregularly, longitudinally striated at the base above, irregu- 

 larly, closely reticulated in the middle ; the apex with a large smooth 

 and shining space. First abdominal segment smooth, shining, the 

 apex with some minute scattered punctures ; the second segment 

 closely and distinctly punctured, except at the apex ; the basal half 

 of the third is more closely and finely punctured. 



