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279. Henicospilus flavicapnt, Mori. 



Eniscospilus xanthocephalus, Cameron (nee Cameron, 1905), Ann. 



Nat. Hist, xix, 1907, p. 178 ( $ ). 

 Henicospilus Jiaoicapuf, Morlev, Revis. Ichn. Brit. Mus. 1912, 



p.46(d$). 



c? $. An immaculate luteous species. Head unicolorous flavous. 

 Thorax with the metanotum stoutly and distinctly striate, basally 

 glabrous, with a single short stria in its centre, lateral striae basallv 

 longitudinal and straight but towards the apex obliquely sinuate 

 to pleurae, basal impression stoutly and sparsely striate, striae of 

 apical slope roundly curved from side to side ; propleune finely 

 and obliquely striate centrally ; mesopleurae longitudinally and 

 distinctly striate on their basal half. Scutellum with the basal 

 half glabrous and the apical closely and longitudinally aciculate ; 

 its sides distinctly carinate throughout. Abdomen and legs 

 immaculate. Wings hyaline, with stigma testaceous and nervures 

 black ; glabrous area with two corneous marks, the basal large 

 and broad with its base transverse and constricted above, thence 

 gradually and roundly narrowed to a fine point at the apex, the 

 apical mark close to centre of basal radial abscissa, elongate 

 and narrow, roundly curved towards radius ; disco-cubital nervure 

 broadly and but slightly curved at its apex, which is remote from 

 apical abscissa of radius : base of radius broadly deflexed. 



Length 27 millim. 



CENTRAL PROVINCES : Jabalpur, iii. 98 (Col Nurse) ; BOMBAY : 

 Kasaba, 855 ft., vii. 04 (Pusa coll.) ; CEYLOX (I'empletonOxf. 

 Mus.); TENASSERIM: Haundraw Valley (Co?. Singhnm, type). 



Cameron simply differentiates this species from H. reticulatus 

 and //. striatus by its duplicated corneous alar marks, making no 

 reference to those of similar conformation among the remaining 

 species ; but its large size, stout build, and especially the basally 

 distinctly sinuate radial nervure, render it sufficiently distinct 

 and ally it with the genus Allocamptus, Thomson. Especially is 

 this the case with two females captured in Ceylon by the Eev. 

 T. Wenham in 1845 (in the British Museum) and by Dr. Thwaires 

 in 1873 (in the Oxford Museum), which have the radius distinctly 

 bisinuate basally, the metathorax more regularly and stoutlv trans- 

 striate, the glabrous alar area with but a single corneous mark and 

 the colour ochraceous. I propose to call this form var. sinuatus, 

 though it is quite possibly of specific rank. 



280. Henicospilus pungens, Smith. 



Ophion pungens, Smith,* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 396 

 (dT,as ?) 



s punt/ens, Morlev, Revis. Ichn. Brit. Mus. 1912, p. 46 



cJ $ . It is not impossible that my H.flavica/nd is a variety of 

 this species, from which it differs in its distinctly geniculato 



