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quadrate and, at least in $ , aciculate ; third finely alutaceous 

 beyond the centre, remainder glabrous ; terebral valvulae centrally 

 incrassate and distinctly exserted. Legs very slender, with the 

 hind coxae oblong ; hind tibiae slightly iucrassate before the base ; 

 front femora not spinose, the basal joint of their tarsi a little 

 arcuate. Wings with no indication of an areolet ; radius very 

 slightly curved and emitted from the centre of the normally broad 

 stigma ; basal nervure hardly curved or oblique, and slightly 

 divergent from the cubital ; parallel nervure emitted far below 

 centre of the brachial cell ; nervellus antefurcal and intercepted 

 far below the centre. 



llanrje. North West Europe, Ceylon. 



This genus must be retained in juxtaposition to (Edematopsis, 

 with which it so closely agrees in its more salient features, although 

 the body is more slender, the abdomen smoother and the head less 

 cubical. It was originally placed by Eorster in the OPHIONIX.S, 

 and Bridgman considered it a division of Cymodma in that sub- 

 family ; Thomson, however, discovered the obvious relationship of 

 the above named genus with it, and includes them, under the 

 group-name THYMARIDES, in the Tryphonid Mesolcptina, I think 

 correctly ; but Ashmead, in 1900, widely separates these two 

 genera by leaving the present in its original position and placing 

 <Edematopsis in the PIMPLINJE. Both sexes bear a curious super- 

 ficial resemblance to small Mici-ocryptus or the more slender 

 Hemiteles, and the aciculate abdomen is similar to that of Panar- 

 yyi'ops (Leptocryptus). 



] ( J. Thymaris clotho, sp. n. 



$ . A black species, with pale-marked abdomen and red legs. 



Head shining and pubescent, somewhat broader than the thorax, 



with the facial orbits impressed ; palpi and mouth testaceous ; 



clypeus apically testaceous, normal and transverse, basally sub- 



tuberculate in the centre, apically 

 a little rounded and not de- 

 pressed. Antennce very slender, 

 with the scape pale; flagellum 

 tricoloured. black, with the two 

 basal joints red and the eleventh 

 to fifteenth white. Thorax 

 shining and pubescent ; notauli 

 deeply impressed ; areola trans- 

 strigose and longer than broad, 

 subparallel-sided, basally rounded 

 and apically truncate, emitting 

 the costulae near its base ; basal 

 area not short. Abdomen with 

 the apical margin of the second 

 Fig. 11. Thymarisdotlio, Mori. and whole of the first segment 

 dull testaceous ; basal segment 



longer than the hind coxae and trochanters, aciculate, slender and 



