HENICOSPILUS. 387 



sternum and a broad mesonotal stripe deep black ; mesonotum 

 nitidulous, with pale pubescence ; nietanotum basally glabrous, 

 irregularly and transversely striate laterally, and centrally strongly 

 reticulate, its apical slope with a few strong and irregularly curved 

 striae ; propleurae glabrous, indistinctly and obliquely striate below, 

 mesopleurae closely and finely punctate, metapleurae finely rugulose 

 with a few strong oblique striae above. Scutellum laterally 

 carinate on its basal half. Abdomen pale testaceous, with the 

 second segment and apex of first rufescent, the third and following 

 inf uscate. Leys coucolorous with the thorax ; femora rufescent. 

 \Viiigs hyaline, with nervures and stigma black ; glabrous area 

 with two corneous marks, the basal pyriform, the two marks 

 connected by a corneous line, the apical small and quadrate. 



Length 17-26 millim. 



MADKAS : Kulattupuzha, Travaucore, xi. 08 (N. Annandale) ; 

 CEYLON : Paradeniya (E. E. Green, type ; 0. S. Widkwar), Kandy, 

 vi. 09 (E. E. Green), Maskeliya, iii. 09 (T, B. Fletcher). 



283. Henicospilus hariolus, Mori. 



Henicospilus hariolus, Morley,* Revis. Ichn. Brit. Mus. 1912, p. 44 

 (d $ ) [there erroneously "attributed to Cameron]. 



S $ . A profusely black-marked ochreous species. Head whitish 

 stramineous and strongly constricted posteriorly ; face and clypeus 

 strongly nitidulous and glabrous, with the former alone closely 

 and finely punctate, the latter apically truncate and not basally 

 separated, with the lateral impressions very deep ; labruiii normally 

 exserted; mandibles testaceous and vertical, with the teeth black. 

 Antenna longer than the body (24 millim.) and entirely testaceous 

 red. Thorax somewhat slender and testaceous, with three broad 

 and narrowly separated mesonotal vittse, post-tegular dots, meso- 



sternum, whole prothorax 

 (except its disc), a broad 

 central metanotal fascia, and 

 spots above the hind coxae, 

 black ; mesonotum somewhat 

 dull and pilose ; metauotum 

 dull and rugulose throughout, 

 with the central and prebasal 

 transverse cai'inse strong, its 

 apical half irregularly and 

 somewhat deeply striate, with 

 two short parallel discal 

 carinse in the centre of its 

 base ; all the pleurae distinctly 

 V strigose and the mesosternum 



finely punctate ; spiracles 

 Fig. 109. Henicospilus hariolus, Mori. transverse, linear. Scutellum 



scabrous and testaceous, with 



strong and subparallel lateral carinse to near its apex ; post- 



2c2 



