IIENICOSPILTJS. 385 



discoidal nervure, longer and stouter antennae and the large, 

 entirely immaculate, glabrous alar area. 



Length 18 raillim. 



ASSAM (W. F. Bade/ley). SINGAPORE (H. N. Ridley}; JAPAN: 

 Hiogo (type). 



Type <S in the British Museum. 



281. Henicospilus rufus, Tosq. 



(?) Ophion rufus, Brulle, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym. iv, 1846, p. 149. 



Ophion (Enicospilus] rufus, Tosquinet, Ichn. d'Afrique, 1896, p. 378 

 (c? $ ) 



c? $ . A stout and red species, sparsely punctate and pubescent. 

 Head rut'escent, broader than long and strongly constricted 

 posteriorly ; orbits entirely flavous and close to the eyes on the 

 vertex ; frons concave and smooth ; face a little convex, smooth, 

 with somewhat long white pilosity ; clypeus not discrete and 

 laterally somewhat deeply impressed, smooth and subnitidulous, 

 with its apex broadly rounded ; mandibles basally rufescent 

 and apically piceous; palpi fulvous; eyes strongly emarginate 

 internally. Antennas red, longer than body and setaceous ; scape 

 elongate and the basal flagellar joint slightly longer than the 

 second. Thorax ovoid, red and shortly pilose ; mesonotum con- 

 vex, finely punctate, with no notauli ; mesopleurse finely and 

 closely punctate ; metathorax posteriorly rounded and produced 

 beyond the base of the hind coxae, with its disc traversed by a 

 transverse carina, dividing the short, horizontal and finely punctate 

 basal part from the very large, sloping and sinuately trans-aciculate 

 apical region ; spiracles basal, linear and very large. Scutellum 

 elongate, somewhat narrow, discally convex, with obsolete puncta- 

 tion and laterally margined nearly to its apex. Abdomen thrice 

 as long as the head and thorax, strongly compressed, red, smooth 

 and shortly pilose, with the segments laterally and apically in- 

 fuscate ; basal segment narrow and very elongate, with the petiole 

 thrice as long as the postpetiole, which is discally convex ; second 

 segment somewhat shorter and apically subcompressed ; terebra 

 black and somewhat stout. Legs fulvous and very long; hind 

 tibia3 much longer than their femora and the basal joint of their 

 tarsi thrice as long as the second ; claws piceous and pectinate. 

 Wings ample and hyaline : stigma and radix fulvous, tegulae red, 

 nervures apically darker ; radial cell elongate and somewhat 

 narrow ; radial nervure basally sinuate and slightly thickened ; of 

 the two corneous spots in the cubital cell, the internal is the 

 larger and subtriangular with its apex produced and curved, the 

 external is small and linear ; the ordinary transverse nervure is 

 antefurcal and the nervellus intercepted well below its centre by 

 a nervure extending to the margin of the wing. 



Length 25 millim. 



NORTHEBN INDIA (Capt. Reid}-, ASSAM: Khasi Hills (Col. 

 Godwin-Austen}, Margherita and Sibsagar (S. E. Peal Ind. Mus.) ^ 



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