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first joint of the flagellum, which is much longer than the following 

 joint. Hinder legs much longer than the anterior. The ovipositor 

 largely projects. The transverse basal uervure is interstitial. In the 

 hind wings the transverse median nervure is broken far below the 

 middle. The apex of the metathorax is not produced beyond the in- 

 sertion of the hind coxae. Apex of abdomen marked with white. 



The small round metatboracic spiracles refer this genus to 

 the Phfieogenini. In Ashmead's * Classification of the Ichneumon 

 Flies ' it would come in near Ilcrpestomus. Characteristic is the 

 long sharp pointed apical and the indistinct subapical tooth of 

 the mandibles. 



Benecles rufomaculatus, sp. nov. 

 Black ; the mesopleura, the mesosternum, the median segment, 

 the petiole, the four anterior legs, the posterior coxjb, trochanters, and 

 femora, except at the apex, red ; the flagellum broadly in the middle 

 and the apex of the abdomen white ; the wings hyaline, the nervures 

 and stigma black. ? . Length, 9 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon, Trincomali (Col. Yerbury). 



Front, vertex, face, and clypeus closely, regularly, and distinctly 

 punctured ; the apex of the clypeus smooth and shining. Mandibles 

 and palpi black ; the apex of the former smooth and shining. The 

 metanotum is less closely and more strongly punctured than the meso- 

 notum ; its basal depression is smooth ; the areola is obscurely sha- 

 greened, and has a longitudinal keel in the centre on the apical half. 

 The apex of the prouotum has a striated margin ; the base of the 

 mesopleurte closely longitudinally striated. The centre of the post- 

 petiole is smooth ; the sides are depressed and obscurely punctured ; 

 the base of the second segment is irregularly striated ; the shallow 

 gastrocoeli are rufous. The antenna) are as long as the body ; the 

 hinder tibife have a broad dull reddish band near the base ; the hinder 

 tarsi are black, the base and the calcaria testaceous. 



A NEW COCCID FROM MADEIRA, ALLIED TO 

 COCCUS TUBERCULATUS, Bouche. 



By T. D. A. COCKEKKLL. 



In the ' Entomologist,' March, 1901, p. 93, I called attention 

 to the peculiar characters assigned to Coccus tuberculatus, Bouche, 

 remarking that I had seen nothing like it. The insect now 

 described is of peculiar interest, because it has the dorsal 

 projections of G. tuberculatus, and is evidently closely allied. 

 It settles beyond doubt the position of Bouche's species in 

 Pulvinaria. 



PULVINARIA C4RABHAMI, n. Sp. 



$ . Oval, flattened, reddish-brown, often blackened dorsally ; 

 1| mm. long, 1| broad; ovisac white, convex, broad, loose, not 



