238 ICHXEUMOXUU . 



This species is, 1 consider, a true Syzeuctus, in spite of its 

 minute and renit'orm raetathoracic spiracles, by means of which 

 it may at once be recognised. I do not know Forster's genus 

 Aphanodon. which appears to differ from Cryptopimpla, syno- 

 nymised with it by Dulla Torre, in the absence of the transverse 

 metanotal apical carina. The apicaliy infumate wings and white- 

 marked legs are very distinctive. The markings are peculiarly 

 constant. 



No doubt can remain that this is a common and widely dis- 

 tributed species throughout India, from Assam to Ceylon, 

 though we at present know nothing of its economy, which is 

 undoubtedly related to the Lepidoptera ; and further, I have seen 

 several examples, which I am unable to differentiate, in the col- 

 lect iou formed by Mr. E. Turner in Queensland, where it is 

 apparently riot uncommon. It was first sent from Ceylon to the 

 British Museum by Dr. Thwaites about 1867. 



168. Syzeuctus zanthorius. Cam. 



Lissonota zanthoria, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 xiv, pt. iii, p. 4i>(3 (J). 



<5 . A bright flavous species, with black markings, unicolorous 

 red antennae and apicaliy infumate wings. Head not vertically 

 declivous behind the internally parallel eyes, fulvescerit-flavous, 

 with only the bordered occiput centrally below, and the space 

 between the flavous ocelli, black ; vertex higher than eyes, glabrous 

 and impressed on either side of the ocelli ; frons distinctly and 

 evenly punctate, with a minute and obsolete excrescence between 

 the reticulate and small scrobes ; face and clypeus distinctly and 

 evenly punctate throughout, subdiscrete, with the latter a little 

 convex and apicaliy rounded ; mandibles stout, with the upper of 

 the nigrescent teeth a little the longer ; cheeks not short. 

 Antenna fulvous throughout and distinctly a little compresso- 

 dilated beyond the centre ; the joints cylindrical and neither 

 elongate nor discrete. Thorax distinctly and not very finely 

 punctate throughout, clear flavous, with a small black mark in 

 centre of front of mesonotum, another on its disc, and lateral 

 vittse basally coalescing at the scutellar fovea, dots above radices 

 and a small oblique fascia on either side of the wanting areola, 

 black ; melathorax with no cost and the lateral carinae entirely 

 wanting, spiracles elongate transverse and not large. Scutelluin 

 flavous, nitidulous, subconvex, deeply and not very closely punc- 

 tate. Abdomen parallel-sided, distinctly punctate, flavous, with 

 all the segments centrally black ; anus pilose and fulvescent, 

 with the valvulae not exserted ; basal segment smoother, not 

 canaliculate nor constricted basally, with spiracles obsolete at 

 its basal third. Legs flavous and slender ; tarsal claws submutic ; 

 hind femora and tibiae pale fulvous, their tarsi darker, tro- 

 chanters basally infuscate, and the pale calcaria strongly unequal. 

 \Vings clear hyaline, with the apices alone infumate ; radix and 



