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  Mr. 
  Alan 
  P. 
  Dodd's 
  Notes 
  on 
  

  

  Head 
  normal; 
  wholly 
  densely 
  reticulate 
  and 
  coriaceous; 
  frons 
  

   not 
  depressed 
  ; 
  eyes 
  rather 
  large, 
  a 
  little 
  pubescent 
  ; 
  ocelli 
  wide 
  

   apart, 
  the 
  lateral 
  jiair 
  a 
  little 
  separated 
  from 
  the 
  eye 
  margins. 
  

   Antennae 
  12-jointed; 
  scape 
  long 
  and 
  slender; 
  pedicel 
  one-half 
  

   longer 
  than 
  its 
  greatest 
  width 
  ; 
  f 
  unicle 
  1 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  pedicel, 
  2 
  a 
  little 
  

   shorter, 
  3 
  and 
  4 
  small 
  and 
  transverse; 
  club 
  G-jointed, 
  the 
  joints 
  

   wider 
  than 
  long, 
  2 
  a 
  little 
  the 
  largest. 
  Thorax 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  

   its 
  greatest 
  %vidth 
  ; 
  pronotum 
  very 
  sliort, 
  rounded 
  anteriorly 
  ; 
  scutum 
  

   and 
  scutellum 
  sculjitured 
  like 
  the 
  head 
  ; 
  parapsidal 
  furrows 
  absent 
  ; 
  

   postscutellum 
  with 
  a 
  short 
  spine 
  ; 
  median 
  segment 
  with 
  its 
  posterior 
  

   angles 
  with 
  a 
  short 
  tooth. 
  Fore-wings 
  reaching 
  ajDex 
  of 
  abdomen 
  ; 
  

   moderately 
  broad 
  ; 
  base 
  of 
  wing 
  hyaline, 
  a 
  broad 
  fuscous 
  band 
  

   beneatii 
  apex 
  of 
  submarginal 
  and 
  all 
  marginal 
  and 
  stigmal 
  veins 
  

   followed 
  by 
  a 
  narrow 
  hyaline 
  band, 
  the 
  ajiex 
  broadly 
  fuscous 
  ; 
  sub- 
  

   marginal 
  vein 
  attaining 
  the 
  costa 
  at 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  -wing 
  length; 
  

   marginal 
  vein 
  two-tlairds 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  stigmal 
  which 
  is 
  short 
  and 
  

   very 
  oblique; 
  postmarginal 
  over 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  stigmal; 
  

   basal 
  vein 
  well 
  marked, 
  perpendicular. 
  Abdomen 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  

   than 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  united 
  ; 
  narrowed 
  at 
  base, 
  pointed 
  at 
  apex 
  ; 
  

   segments 
  much 
  wider 
  than 
  long, 
  3 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  2 
  aiid 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  the 
  following 
  combined, 
  1 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  protuberance 
  at 
  

   base; 
  1 
  and 
  2 
  finely 
  striate, 
  the 
  rest 
  without 
  sculpture. 
  Length, 
  

   1"25 
  mm. 
  

  

  Described 
  from 
  one 
  female 
  labelled 
  " 
  Ceylon 
  ; 
  Dr. 
  

   Thwaites." 
  

   Type 
  in 
  the 
  Hope 
  Collection, 
  Oxford. 
  

  

  Probaryconus 
  minor 
  Wollaston. 
  

  

  Scelio 
  minor 
  Wollaston, 
  Ann. 
  Mag. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  vol. 
  1, 
  1858, 
  

   p. 
  26. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  not 
  a 
  Scelio, 
  but 
  belongs 
  here 
  ; 
  the 
  postmarginal 
  

   vein 
  is 
  short, 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  stigmal; 
  parapsidal 
  furrows 
  

   wanting; 
  postscutellum 
  with 
  a 
  short 
  blunt 
  tooth; 
  abdo- 
  

   men 
  narrowed 
  at 
  base, 
  with 
  a 
  distinct 
  basal 
  protuberance 
  

   in 
  the 
  female. 
  

  

  Sceliacantha 
  subplana, 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  9. 
  Dull 
  black; 
  legs, 
  except 
  the 
  coxae, 
  clear 
  yeUow; 
  antennal 
  

   scape 
  yellow, 
  the 
  anteimae 
  otherwise 
  fuscous. 
  

  

  Body 
  somewhat 
  flattened. 
  Head 
  rather 
  flattened; 
  eyes 
  rather 
  

   smaU, 
  with 
  long 
  scattered 
  setae; 
  ocelli 
  small, 
  wide 
  apart, 
  the 
  

  

  