OBIEXTOSP1LUS. 379 



nervellus, translucent black ; an additional black streak runs from 

 the anal angle of the front wings to an oval blotch extending 

 from the fulvous stigma to the centre of the lower side of the 

 disco- cubital cell. Head with the vertex broad and hardly narrower 

 than the somewhat small eyes. Scutellum distinctly carinate 

 laterally only, and sparsely punctate. Thorax : metathorax 

 shagreened, with no trace of area? ; the postpetiole becomes 

 abruptly nearly double the breadth of the petiole ; anal valvular 

 blackish. Legs short and stout, testaceous, with the hind tarsi 

 conspicuously black and rather broad ; all the femora wiih long 

 hairs beneath. Wings broad and not very ample, with the 

 nervures concolorous with the markings ; upper basal straight and 

 strongly antefurcal, disco-cubital acutely genicuhite, but with no 

 ramellus ; nervellus subopposite and intercepted a little above its 

 lower third. 



Length 17 millim. 



BOMBAY : Deesa, ix. 01 (Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



A remarkable species in its strong superficial resemblance to 

 Oriental Bracons. 



276. Orientospilus reticulatus, Cam. 



Enicospilus reticulatus, Cameron (nee Cam. 1902), Manch. Mem, 

 1899, p. 102 ( $ ). 



d $ Head fulvous, with the distinctly punctate face paler and 

 the ocellar region black ; clypeus indistinctly punctate and apicaUy 

 glabrous ; mandibles basally closely punctate, with their teeth 



black; palpi fulvous, with dense 

 elongate white pilosity. An- 

 tennae longer than the body, 

 unicolorous flavous ; scape 

 punctate and with sparse pale 

 hairs ; flagellum with dense 

 and very short dark pubescence. 

 Thorax fulvous, with three 

 large mesonotal, and two large 

 mesosternal, black marks ; the 

 metanotum basallv " is obli- 

 quelv depressed at the base and 

 apex; the centre at the base 

 has a long central, bordered by 

 a shorter keel and the edges by 

 a curved one ; the apical part 

 Fig. 106. smooth and without any keels. 



Orientospilus reticulatus, Cam. The smooth basal part of the 



median segment is bordered by 



a curved keel ; in front of this the segment is stoutly irregularly 

 reticulated to the apex ; in the middle at the base are two straight 



