HEXJLCOSIMLUS. 389 



reticulate, its apex obliquely reticulate, but less distinctly in the 

 centre below, its base glabrous ; pro- and meso-pleurae closely 

 punctate, witb the former centrally, and the latter below, closely 

 striate ; metapleune shagreened above and sparsely striate apically 

 below. Scutellum with stout carinae ; its apex closely and longi- 

 tudinally striate. Abdomen apically black. Leys concolorous with 

 the body ; hind tarsi slightly but distinctly longer than the tibia?, 

 and the anterior twice their length. Wings clear hyaline, with 

 the stigma and nervures infuscate ; first/ cubital cell with two 

 corneous marks, the basal dilated and rounded behind, with its 

 upper part somewhat triangular, the apical suboval ; basal nervure 

 not continuous through the median. 



Length 14 millim. 



MALDIVE ISLANDS : Hulule, Male Atoll, i. or ii. 1900 (Prof. 

 Stanley Gardiner, type) ; PUNJAB : Kangra Valley, 4500 ft., x. 99 

 <<?. C. Dudgeon) ; BURMA : Karen Hills, 3000-3700 ft., vi. 88, and 

 Bhamo, vii. 86 (L. Pea). MALAY STATES : Penang (H. N. Ridley}, 

 Selangor, ii. 08 ((?. Meade- Waldo) UINDING ISLANDS ; SARAWAK ; 

 CELEBES ; CERAM. 



This species must not be confused with the same author's 

 earlier one under the same name ; but since I have placed that in 

 a distinct genus, the present name may be allowed to stand. 



285. Henicospilus merdarius, Grav. 



Ophion merdarius, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. iii, 1829, p. 698 ; Curtis, 



Brit. Ent. xiii, 183(5, no. 600 ; Hatzeburg, Ichn. d. Forst. i, p. 101 ; 



Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, pt. 8, p. 11; Volleuhoven, 



Pinac. pi. vi, p. 44(tf$). 

 EnicospiluK merdanus, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xii, 1888, p. 1188 ; 



Bi-auns, Arch. Nat. Mecklenb. 1889, p. 96 ( rf $ ). 

 Eniscospilus xanthocephalus, Cameron, Spolia Zeylanica, 1905, 



p. 122($). 

 Henicospilus merdarius, Bridgman & Fitch, Entomologist, 1884, 



p.!77(cf$). 



S $ . A testaceous, glabrous and nitidulous species, with sparse 

 flavous and black markings. Head pale flavous, with the oceliar 

 region black, the occiput and a central facial line red ; clypeus 

 apically broadly rounded. Antennas testaceous red! Thorax with 

 the basal slope of metanotum with a carina in the centre and one 

 on the sides ; the basal region smooth, the apical almost smooth 

 in the centre, the sides transversely striated ; mesopleurae finely 

 punctate above, finely and longitudinally striate below. Scutellum 

 pale flavous. Abdomen testaceous, with the basal two-thirds of 

 the first segment flavous, and the anus black from the fifth 

 segment. Legs immaculate. Wings clear hyaline, with the 

 stigma clear testaceous, the costa and nervures black ; glabrous 

 area with two corneous marks, the basal and larger broadly 

 rounded above, slightly and gradually constricted to its transverse 

 apex, the apical and much smaller mark about thrice as long as 

 broad, basally oblique and apically constricted ; transverse cubital 



