I H) SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 



liie Cryptince, and its minute areolet would place it in the Mesostenini, 

 but its uniform rufo-testaceous colour is very different from anything 

 found in that group. It might in fact be readily mistaken for a 

 Paniscus or an Ophionid. It differs from the Cryptince in the spiracles 

 on the first abdominal segment being placed quite close to, almost at 

 the middle — furtiier back than in Ophion, but not so far back as in 

 Paniscus. In the position in which the spiracles are placed it agrees 

 with the Malay genus Ccesula. From the resemblance of the 

 species to Paniscus and Ophion I have no doubt that observation 

 will show that it is, like the genera mentioned, nocturnal in habits. 

 The ocelli, too, are large as in these genera. 



25.— Earranalutea,sp. nov. 

 Plate B, fig. 3. 



Luteous, smooth, and shining, the face, inner orbits to the ocelli 

 and mandibles, except at the apex, lemon-yellow ; the four front 

 legs at the base yellowish, the hind tibise and tarsi fuscous ; wings 

 clear hyaline, the nervures black; antennae longer than the body, 

 black, the scape luteous ; it is short, thick, not much longer than 

 broad. Pleural sutures crenulated ; on the median segment, 

 between the hind coxae, are three stout transverse keels, bordered 

 on the outer side by a keel which nms down to the base of the hind 

 coxae. Mesopleural furrow deep, obscurely crenulated, ?. 



Length 10 mm.; terebra 2 mm. 



Kandy, October. 



Ophionid^. 

 26. — Ophion hicarinatus, sp. nov. 



Dark rufous, the eye orbits broadly, face, scutellum, and pleura' 

 pallid yellow ; antennae pale rufous, wings hyaline, the costa 

 and stigma rufous, the nervures darker ; the recurrent nervure 

 received twice the length of the transverse cubital nervure behind 

 the base of the apical abcissa of the radius ; the stump of a nervure 

 as long as the transverse cubital. On tl\e apical slope of the meta- 

 notum, commencing at the transverse keel, are two stout longitudinal 

 keels ; tlie sides of the apical slope are bordered by a stout, waved 

 keel, which extends to the base of the hind coxae. Face minutely 

 punctured ; clypeal foveae large, deep. Thorax impunctate, meso- 

 notum covered with a fuscous pubescence ; the parapsidal furrows 

 distinct on basal half, ?. 



Length 21 mm. 



Maskeliya, November, 



