132 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 



part is bounded by a rounded keel and is closely distinctly reticulated. 

 The basal three segments of the abdomen are closely, distinctly, 

 rugosely punctured, as is also the basal half of the fourth and less 

 strongly the basal third of the fifth ; the apical half of the fourth is 

 sparsely punctured ; in both segments the punctured basal part is 

 bounded by a transverse furrow, there being also a similar furrow on 

 the third and a less distinct one on the second. The raised central 

 part of the first segment of the abdomen is depressed in the centre. 

 The metapleurse below the keel are smooth, above it rugosely 

 punctured. 



Allied to the European B. multicolor. The now cosmopolitan, B. 

 Icetatorius, Gr., probably is found in Ceylon. I have seen it from 

 India, and lately from South Africa. 



44. — Rhorus spinipes, sp. nov. 



Black ; face, apex of clypeus, mandibles, malar space, inner orbits, 

 a mark on either side of the mesonotum, the mark triangularly 

 dilated on the inner side at the apex, scutellum, a broad band on 

 the apex of the metanotum, a roundish mark on the upper side of the 

 base of mesopleurse, a larger quadrangular one on the apex below, 

 the usual mark under the hind wings, the apex of metapleurae, the 

 mark united to that on the metanotum and the apices of the abdominal 

 segments, yellow. Four front legs yellow, the hind coxse black, 

 yellow above, the trochanters for the greater part black, femora 

 rufous, tibiae dark red, blackish at the apex, tarsi black. Wings 

 hyaline, the stigma fuscous, ?. 



Length 7 mm. ; terebra 2 mm. 



Kandy. 



Antennae longer than the body, the scape marked with yellow, 

 tlie flagellum brownish below. Smooth and shining ; the metano- 

 tum obscurely, finely, transversely striated, the basal half furrowed 

 down the middle. Abdomen smooth, shining, densely, shortly pilose. 

 Areolet oblique, triangular, shortly appendiculated. Four hind 

 tii)iae and tarsi thickly spinose. 



This is probably not a typical Rhorus, but there is no other genus 

 into which lean make it enter. I do not know the type of the genus. 

 In my species the transverse median nervure in hind wings is broken 

 near the bottom, the transverse median nervure is interstitial, and 

 tlie recurrent nervure is interstitial with the second transverse cubital. 



PlMPLIN^. 



45. — Epirhyssa ornatipes, sp- nov. 

 Palo fulvous yellow ; the middle of front, the ocellar region, the 

 mark united to the eyes by a black byid of equal width throughout, 



