TBICHOMMA. METAXOMALON. 431 



In Europe, the species of this genus are known to prey upon a 

 very few of the larger Tortricid moths, but Mr. Green has bred 

 the present species from the larval case of a Tineid moth. 



323. Trichomma productor, Mori. 



Trichomma productor, Morley, Rev. Iclm. Brit. Mus. ii, 1913, p. 66. 



c? . A linear black species, with the face, orbits aud hind tarsi 



alone flavous ; legs aud abdomen nearly entirely red ; scutellum 



strongly deplanate and black ; metanotum elongately produced 



above the petiole. 



Length 14-15 millim. 



UXITED PEOTI^TCES : Mussoori, x. 06 (//. M. Lefroi/~Pas& coll.). 



Type in the author's collection. 



This species has much the facies of T. niyricans, but differs in 

 many details of both structure and colour. The head is similarly 

 coloured, but with the frons and vertex much more scabrously 

 punctate ; face with longer pubescence ; mesonotal notauli 

 wanting, with no pale anteradical lines ; metanotum more finely 

 sculptured, with the apical metathoracic process occupying fully a 

 third of its total length and quite parallel-sided ; scutellum black, 

 quadrate, strongly deplanate and centrally sulcate ; abdomen red, 

 with the disc of the second segment alone black, and the anus 

 hardly darkened : all the legs red, with the apices of the hind 

 tibiae alone black ; hind coxae cylindrical and much narrower ; 

 internal cubital nervure much less sinuate and the anal emitted 

 distinctly further from centre of the first recurrent nervure. The 

 eyes are much less distinctly pubescent. 



I have examined two males of this species. 



Genus METANOMALON, Mori. 

 Metanomalon, Morley, Rev. Ichn. Brit. Mus. ii, 1913, p. 58. 



GENOTYPE, M. poliendum, sp. n. 



Eyes glabrous, strongly approximating apically and not 

 internally emarginate; face constricted to the discrete and 

 tuberculiform clypeus ; frons trans-sulcate above the scrobes, with 

 neither carina nor horn. Antennae very slender and filiform, with 

 the elongate flagellar joints cylindrical ; scape pale, short and 

 obliquely truncate. Thorax not unusually pubescent ; mesonotum 

 entirely glabrous and very strongly nitidulous, with its central 

 lobe considerably elevated ; nctauli very deeply impressed and 

 strongly crenulate, determinately coalescing discally; metathorax 

 shining, sparsely sculptured, with distinct area} and its apex not 

 produced above base of the hind coxae ; spiracles circular. 

 iScutellum entirely glabrous, very strongly nitidulous and bordered 

 to near apex. Postpetiole not or hardly thicker than the petiole ; 

 second segment centrally impressed, linear, distinctly longer than 

 the first and double the length of the third. Hind legs with 

 the tarsi not or hardly dilated; calcaria longer than apical 

 width of tibiae ; claws minute, femora and tibiae basally constricted. 



