ORIENTOTHERONIA. ERYTHROTIIEROXIA. 149 



Length 8-11 millim. 



PUNJAB : Kangra Valley, 4500 ft., x. 99 (G. C. Dudgeon} ; 

 BOMBAY: Poona, viii. 80 (R. C. Wroughton) ; CEYLON: Pundaluoya 

 <type o ), Kitli Otu, 21. ii. 92 (Got. Yerbury, type 6 ), Kandy, 

 vi. 06, and Sigriya, v.-vii. 09 (E. E. Green); TENASSERIM: : Mergui 

 (DohertyInd. Mas.). SINGAPORE (II. N. Ridley). 



Types in the British Museum. 



Closely allied to the last species, but at once recognised by its 

 black antennae and black-marked hind tibiae ; distinctly banded 

 abdomen, which is much less rufescent; and the uniformly 

 straighter radius ; the average si/e is smaller and the abdomen 

 distinctly narrower towards its base. It has much the facies of a 

 Nomada. 



90. Orientotheronia acheron, sp. u. 



c? . A stramineous species with profuse black markings, the head 

 posteriorly constricted, the basal segment subquadrate and the 

 .nervelet distinct. 



Length 8 millim. 



There can be no doubt that a single male I have seen is 

 abundantly distinct from both the preceding species, since the 

 basal abdominal segment is very much shorter and stouter, hardly 

 longer than apically broad, the head narrower behind the eyes, 

 the nervelet distinct and the whole facies obviously more " squat" 

 and compact. In its markings and sculpture, however, it exactly 

 corresponds with the male of the last-described species. 



CEYLON: Pundaluoya (BingJiam). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Genus ERYTHROTHERONIA, Cam. 

 Erythrotheronia, Cameron, Spolia Zeylanica, 1905, p. 134. 

 'GENOTYPE, E.flavolineata, Cam. 



Temples moderately large, obliquely narrowed ; eyes incised, 

 but not deeply, on the inner side ; malar space almost absent. 

 Last joint of antenna? shorter than the preceding two united. 

 Metathorax areolated, not toothed ; the spiracles longer than 

 wide. Scutellum raised, stoutly keeled laterally to near the apex. 

 Abdomen smooth, without furrows. Legs stout; the claws large, 

 edentate. Areolet oblique, 5-augled ; the transverse median 

 nervure interstitial ; transverse median nervure in hind wings 

 broken, distinctly above the middle. 



The bold and constant sanguineous coloration is quite dis- 

 tinctive. 



Range. Ceylon. 



" The type of this genus looks like a red Xanthopimpla or Theronia. 

 In Dr. Ashmead's system it comes near to the Jfew Zealand genus 



