MEYVA. 233 



apex of basal third. Legs slender, with tarsal claws simple ; hind 

 tarsi not or hardly longer than the tibiae ; all tarsi spinose. 

 Areolet externally incomplete, with its petiole as long as its 

 height, and emitting the recurrent nervure from its apex. 



Range, Assam. 



This genus differs from Ctenopimpla in the elliptic metathoracic 

 spiracles, simple tarsal claws and lack of basal clypeal sulcus ; 

 the basal abdominal structure resembles that of Lissonota. 



164. Meyva villosa, Cam. 



Meyva villosa, Cainerou,* Manch. Menu 3899, p. 192, pi. iii, fig. 11 

 (wing). 



<$ . Head black, with the inner orbits more narrowly centrally, 

 the outer narrowly, a transverse line on lower part of the closely 



punctate and white-pilose 

 face, the clypeus, mandibles 

 broadly at their base, and 

 palpi, flavescent ; frons 

 smooth and vertex very 

 coarsely striolate. Antenna; 

 immaculate. Thorax with 

 dense short pale pilosity ; 

 pro- and meso-pleurae 

 closely punctate, with the 

 latter centrally glabrous 

 and nitidulous basally ; 

 rnesonotum nitidulous and 

 strongly punctate; meta- 

 notum strongly, deeply 

 and, like the metapleurse. 

 closely punctate. Scutellum 



strongly but not closely punctate, with a flavous dot at 

 base of its basal cariuae. Abdomen rufescent. with the basal 

 segment except at apex and an interrupted mark near base of the 

 second, black. Legs red ; coxae and trochanters black, with the 

 front ones anteriorly flavescent ; posterior tarsi black. Wings 

 iiifuscate hyaline, apically infumate ; stigma and nervures black ; 

 areolet emitting recurrent nervure from its apically pellucid outer 

 nervure. 



Length 15 millim. 



ASSAM : Kbasi Hills (Rothney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



Fig. 56. Meyva villosa, Cam. 



