118 SPOl.lA ZEYLANICA. 



The diffeience between the Hemilelmi and the Phyyadeuonini 

 appears to be soinewiiat shadowy, and practically consists in the 

 absence in the former of the second transverse cubital nervure and 

 in its presence in the lattei'. It is clear enough in the present 

 genus, although bullated in the middle. In Ashmead's arrangement 

 of the Phygadeuonini it would come in near Leptodermas, having five 

 are» on the apex of the metanotum, but it has no keels on the first 

 abdominal segment. The deeply excavated mesopleura is note- 

 worthy. The pleural furrow is wide, deep, curved. 



23. — Clitiga excavata, sp. nov. 



Plate B, fig. G. 



Black, shining ; the face, except for a line in the centre above, 

 clypeus, and mandibles except at the apex, palpi, the base of the 

 prothorax, tegulse, tubercles, the lower part of the mesopleural 

 depression, the mark roundly narrowed above and the apex of the 

 scutellum, pale yellow. Wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma 

 black. Front legs fuscous — testaceous ; the coxae and trochanters 

 white ; the middle fuscous, the coxae at the apex and above white ; 

 the hind legs with the coxae black, the rest fuscous, tinged with 

 black, 6. 



Length 5 mm. 



Haputale, ex pupae of Michroeseus oblatarius. 



January. 



Mesonotum clearly, but not closely punctured. The central 

 excavated part of the mesopleurae is smooth, its edges punctured ; 

 the lower part and the sternum rather strongly punctured. The 

 upper part of the metapleurae strongly, but not closely punctured ; 

 the lower part smooth and bounded by stout, curved keels. The 

 posterior median area of the metanotum is surrounded on the inner 

 side by a row of fovete ; the outer area is stoutly closely striated, 

 the inner with two or three irregular keels, the central quite smooth; 

 the outer is whitish above and there is a white spot on the apex of tlie 

 spiracular. 



24. — Clitiga forticornis, sp. nov. 

 Plate B, fig. 7. 

 Black, the face, except for a black line broad and narrowed below, 

 a line on the centre of the clypeus broadly dilated at the apex, the 

 orbits (broadly above) except on the centre of the malar sjiace, basal 

 half of mandibles, palpi, a broad line on the apical half of the prono- 

 tum, the lower part of propleurae, tegula", tubercles, scutellums, the 

 sides of the median segnicnt from shortly above the spines, about 



