flavous. Abdomen cylindrical, broadest behind the centre, with 

 the apical angles of the second and third segments subproduced ; 

 basal segment not longer than broad, apically truncate and sub- 

 glabrous, its spiracles basal ; following segments strongly and 

 longitudinally punctate, becoming more finely sculptured apically ; 

 apices of four first segments broadly, of the remainder narrowly, 

 flavous above and below ; terebra and the distinct ventral plica 

 flavous. Leys flavous ; hind coxae piceous, with their stout femora, 

 tibiae and tarsi red. Wings not large, with their apices somewhat 

 distinctly infumate ; tegulse piceous ; radix, costa and stigma 

 ferruginous ; areolet transverse and somewhat distinctly petiolate, 

 feuestrate above before its apex ; nervellus postfurcal and inter- 

 cepted very far above its centre. 



Length 12 millim. 



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

 PUTANA : Mt. Abu (Col. Nurse, type) ; BOMBAY : Poona, viii. 86 

 (R. C. Wroughton) ; MADHAS : Bangalore (Ind. Mus.). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



The above description is drawn from the typical female. 



188. Metopius fusiformis, sp. n. 



$ . A pretty black and flavous species, with basally subattenuate 

 antennae and fusiform abdomen. Head strongly transverse and 

 very narrow behind the eyes ; black, with the strong interantennal 

 horn and whole- face, but not the undiscrete clypeus. flavous 

 Antenna as long as the body, somewhat stout and distinctly a 

 little attenuate basally, black, with the basal scapal joint entirely 

 flavous. Thorax short and subspherical, convex, densely and 

 closely punctate, with only the strong callosities beneath the 

 radices flavous ; metathorax subnitidulous, very short, but not 

 abruptiv declivous : petiolar area entire and basally strong 

 throughout ; areola half as long again as broad, subrectangular, 

 emitting strong costulse from its centre ; spiracles oval and 

 prominent. Scutellum transverse, strongly convex, flavous, with 

 its lateral extremities cornutely produced ; postscutellum tri- 

 angular, flavous. Abdomen very strongly convex, dull and closely 

 punctate, fusiform and resembling that of Sphinctus ; black, with 

 the apical half of the three discally bicarinate basal segments 

 laterally and apices of the following broadly, flavous ; first segment 

 a little longer than broad and parallel-sided, with its base abruptly 

 constricted ; anus very strongly obtuse and extending beyond the 

 acuminate spicula. Legs not elongate or slender ; flavous, with 

 the posterior coxae (except apices of the intermediate), their 

 femora, apices of the hind tibiae with their tarsi, black. Winys 

 hyaline ; radix and tegulae ochraceous, stigma piceous ; areolet 

 exactly triangular and somewhat broadly sessile, emitting re- 



