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raised irregular lines which curve and unite towards the 
apex giving the appearance at first glance of U-shaped striae, 
medianly with umbilicate punctures ; prepodeum polished, 
with two distinct carinze which diverge posteriorly ; abdomen 
polished, the petiole short, granular. Dark metallic green, 
even antennze and legs; tarsi, except the dusky apical joint, 
clear white ; wings hyaline, venation yellowish. 
Type-locality.— Coimbatore, South India. 
Type.—Cat. No. 20,981, U.S.N.M. 
Described from ten females received from Ramakrishna 
Ayyar under his number 5 and labelled: ‘ Parasitic on 
( of Epilachna. Insectary. 14.viii.16.” 
Ceratoneura indica, sp. n. 
Closely allied to the genotype, petiolata, but differs in 
antennal characters and to some extent in sculpture. In 
Girault’s generic key * this species falls in Ceratoneuropsis. 
- Female-—Length 15 mm. Striz of face of nearly uniform 
strength; frons and vertex subshining, granulato-lineate ; 
interocellar line shorter than ocellocular line; a more or 
less distinct depression behind lateral ocelli; antennz as in 
figure 4; pronotum transversely lineato-granular ; meso- 
Ceratoneura indica, Rohwer. Antenna of type. 
scutum without an impressed median line, the surface finely 
transversely lineate; scutellum with the impressed lines 
very feeble and difficult to see, but certainly without a 
median one, the surface granular; propodeum shining, 
without distinct. sculpture, the median groove distinct, 
wider anteriorly, lateral and posterior sulci distinct ; petiole 
wider posteriorly, its length subequal with the caudal width ; 
abdomen shining, acuminate from basal third; stigmal vein 
alittle more than one-fourth as long as marginal ; marginal 
* Mem, Queensland Mus. vol. ii. 1918, p. 253. 
