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Genus LISSOTHERONIA, Cam. 

 Lissothcronia, Cameron, Spolia Zej^lanica, 1905, p. 139. 

 GENOTYPE, L. flavipes, Cam. 



Eyes ]arge and internally emarginate ; cheeks short. Antennae 

 slender and longer than the body, with the apical joint nearly as 

 long as the two preceding united. Metathorax strongly, closely, 

 and transversely striate, but with no longitudinal carinae and con- 

 sequently no arese ; spiracles about thrice as long as broad and 

 broader below than above. Abdomen with the segments broader 

 than long, entirely glabrous, uitidulous and impunctate with the 

 first basally bituberculate. Tarsi thickly spinose, with the claws 

 simple. Transverse median nervure received beyond the trans- 

 verse basal ; inner cubital nervure broadly rounded, with no 

 nervelet ; first recurrent of hind wings intercepted distinctly above 

 its centre. Clypeus apically obliquely depressed and basally 

 distinctly discrete from the face. 



Range. Ceylon. 



"This genus might be mistaken for a Pimpla, from which, 

 however, it can be readily known by the perfectly smooth, shining 

 abdomen. In Dr. Ashmeacl's system it would come in near 

 AUotheronia, which may be known from it by the metathorax 

 having a strong transverse apical area, with the upper angles 

 dentate or tuberculate, the whole thorax, too, being ' closely, 

 finely, rugosely punctate ' except for a spot on the middle of the 

 mesopleurae. It has the metanotum closely transversely striated, 

 as in Lissopimpla, having also the smooth abdomen of that genus ; 

 but otherwise is readily separated from it by the absence of 

 parapsidal furrows and of a tooth on the hind femora" (Cameron, 

 loc. cit.). The lack of all metathoracic arese will at once separate 

 it from the allied genera Theronia, OrientotJieronia, and Erythro- 

 theronia, which are probably little more than sections of a single 

 genus. 



93. Lissotheronia flavipes, Cam. 



Lissotlieroniaflavipes, Cameron, Spolia Zeylanica, 1905, p. 139 ($). 



5 . A black species and distinctly nitidulous, except upon the 

 metathorax which is closely striate, the pleurae more closely and 

 obliquely so than the disc ; sternum with dense fulvous pubescence. 

 Head with the face closely punctate, with the sides of the lower 

 part roundly convex ; clypeus apically depressed, smooth and 

 shining, with the raised upper part sparsely punctate. A spot on 

 the centre of the scutellum, and a curved one on the postscutellum, 

 flavous. Abdomen with the terebra fully a quarter the length of 

 the body (4 millim.). Leys flavous, with the front coxae centrally 

 below, and the posterior coxa) and trochauters entirely, black ; 



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