APOPHUA. 215 



black from the third segment. In short, the sculpture is more 

 pronounced and the pale markings less profuse, which is rarely 

 the case in the males of these parasites. In superficial facies, 

 it somewhat resembles members of the genus Metopius, Panz. 



149. Apophua carinata, sp. n. 



2 . A dull black species, with scutellutn and all the segmeutal 

 apices flavous. Head black and strongly constricted behind the 

 prominent and entire eyes ; frons and vertex nitidulous, with a 

 few isolated punctures ; face irregularly transversely strigose- 

 pimctate ; clypeus hardly broader than long, shining, flavous and 

 subglabrous : mandibles flavous, margined below, with their teeth 

 black and equal. Antenna; filiform, black, with the scape testa- 

 ceous internally and beneath. Thorax black, with the prouotum 

 centrally, and elongate callosities thence to the radices, flavous ; 

 mesonotum closely and coriaceously punctate, triangular, with 

 the notauli obsolete ; metathorax more finely punctate, with 

 elongate griseous pilosity ; basal areas small and quadrate ; areola 

 twice as long as broad, parallel-sided, apically emarginate, emitting 

 the costula3 from before its centre ; petiolar area short, entire, 

 and shining. Scutettum flavous throughout, sparsely punctate and 

 strongly nitidulous : postscutellum and frenum immaculate. 

 Abdomen dull, longitudinally and irregularly striolate, with apices 

 of all the segments testaceous and their centre distinctly carinatp 

 to apex of the fourth ; basal segment half as long again as broad, 

 evenly punctate, basally flavous and bicarinate to the emarginate 

 apex ; terebra as long as abdomen. Leys testaceous, the hind 

 ones missing, except their red coxa3. Winys hyaline, with the 

 tegulse and costae black, radix flavous and stigma piceous. 



Length Qk millim. 



ASSAM :~Khasi Hills, 1000-3000 ft., iii. 07 (Pusa coll.); 

 CKYLON : Maskeliya, iii. 09 (T. Bainbrigge Fletcher). 



Type in the Pusa collection. 



The above description is drawn from two females. The Ceylon 

 specimen agrees exactly with the type, except in the possession 

 of an entirely pale red metathorax and in having the first 

 segment more broadly red basally. 



Tribe LISSONOTIDES. 



Xo hesitation can be experienced respecting the representatives 

 of this tribe, for they are all very easily distinguished by negative 

 characters. The head is transverse and not cubical, as in the 

 XOKIDIDES ; the abdomen is evenly sculptured, usually finely 

 punctate or coriaceous, throughout, and not at all impressed nor 

 tuberculate as in the PIMPLIDES ; the basal segment, though 

 slender, is not subpetiolate as in the HEMIG AST RIDES, nor are its 



