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nervure straight, oblique and rather more than half the length of 

 the recurrent, which is about a fourth shorter than the apical 

 abscissa of the disco-cubital nervure ; third discoidal cell short 

 and broad, its length hardly exceeding double its apical breadth ; 

 basal nervure continuous through the median. 



Length 11-20 millim. 



PUNJAB : Kangra Valley (G. C. Dudgeon) UXITED PBOYIXCES : 

 Dehru Dun (A. D. Imms), Agra, 360 ft., and Lucknow, 950 ft. 

 (E. Brunetti Ind. Mus.), Bauipur Chaka and Meerut (Ind. Mus.) ; 

 SIKKIM (Ind. Mus.) ; ASSAM : Sibsagar (S. E. Peal] ; BEXGAL : 

 Chapra and Ptisa (Pusa coll.), Calcutta and Bettiah (Ind. Mus.) ; 

 GEXTKAL PROVINCES: Balaghat, Nagpur, HoshangabadandPowar- 

 kheda (Pusa coll.) ; BAJPUTANA : Mt. Abu (Col. .Nurse) ; BOMBAY : 

 Igatpuri and Nadiad (Pusa coll.) ; MADRAS : Auantapur and 

 Saidapet (Pusa coll.), Ganjam, Bangalore and Maddathorai (Ind. 

 Mus.) ; CEYLOX : Paradeniya (E. E. Green), Diyatalawa, 4000 ft., 

 and Pattipola, 6000 ft. (T'. B. Fletcher), Colombo and Madulsima 

 (0. S. Wid-war) ; TENASSEBIM ( W. DoJwtyInd. Mus.). MALAY 

 STATES: Penang. EUROPE. 



Type in the Breslau Museum. 



At once distinguished from the other species of this genus, 

 described by Cameron in 1905, by the comparatively short and 

 broad third discoidal cell. 



This species is very abundant throughout nearly the whole of 

 Europe, but has not hitherto been known to extend further East. 

 It has often been bred from a large number of Noctuid moth 

 caterpillars. No doubt can remain, I think, that Cameron's 

 description of his 77. ranthocephalus applies to Gravenhorst's 

 species ; most of the Indian specimens I have examined have the 

 head testaceous. It is certainly one of the commonest of the 

 Indian species of this genus. In the Pusa collection there is a 

 specimen bred from the Lymantriid moth, Ettproctis scintillans, 

 AVlk., and Mr. Green has bred a small male from the larva of 

 Euproctis fraterna, Moore, at Peradeniya. 



286. Henicospilus melanocarpus, Cam. 



Eniscosnilus melon ocarpus, Cameron, Spolia Zevlanica, 190o r 

 p. 122($). 



$ . A rufescent species, with only the antenna and anus 

 black. Head immaculate. Antenna; black, broadly rufescent 

 basally. Ihorax with the metanotum closely reticulate, but 

 becoming less so at the smooth base, where it is irregularly and 

 longitudinally striate, with the basal impression closely and 

 strongly striate, more closely centrally than laterally ; pleurae 

 closely but not strongly punctate, metapleura3 more strongly, 

 propleura? centrally closely striate. Kmtelhtm with lateral, 

 abnormally stout carina). Abdomen rufescent, with the anus 

 from the fifth segment black. Leys immaculate. Wuujs hyaline 



