436 ICHKEUMUMU.E. 



with white pilosity, strongly transverse, with the emarginate 

 eyes not at all prominent ; occiput sloping from the remote 

 ocelli and not emarginate ; frons and face deplanate ; clypeus not 

 discrete, apically margined and broadly rounded ; cheeks as long 

 as the base o the flavous and apically equidentate mandibles ; 

 palpi flavous. Antenna with the scrobes circular, carinate and 

 verv far apart ; flagellum black and filiform, becoming attenuate 

 apically and extending a little beyond the postpetiole ; scape and 

 pedicellus clear fulvous, with an external black mark. Thorav 

 black, scabrous, with the uiesonotum subpuuctate and anteriorly 

 abruptly declivous ; notauli wanting ; metanotum with long hairs, 

 and with very indefinite traces of basal area? only ; petiolar area 

 not impressed ; pleurae subreticulate, with the metapleurse trans- 

 strigose ; spiracles large, elongate and transverse. Scutellwri 

 broader than Jong, deplanate, scabrous, pilose, black, with its 

 apex very broad and truncate. Abdomen strongly compressed 

 from the second segment, red, with the disc and lateral margin 

 and apex of first, disc of third basally, and the anus, black ; basal 

 segment linear and pale fulvous to beyond its apical third and 

 thence very strongly and suborbicularly rounded to apex, longer 

 than second ; 3 cerci exserted, terebra short and hardly longer 

 than third segment. Leys bright flavous and not elongate, with 

 all the coxae, except apices of front ones, black ; hind femora clear 

 red, with their tibia? and tarsi darker ; calcaria stout and half the 

 length of the spinulose metatarsus. Winys clear hyaline, with the 

 tegulae pale fulvous, radix flavous, costa and stigma black, with 

 the latter below and the base of the radius red ; nervures disposed 

 as in C. decipiens, except that the uervellus is not at all geuiculate 

 and very obsoletely intercepted far below its centre. 



Lfnfjth 9| millim. 



ASSAM : Margherita (Ind. Mus.) ; BENGAL : Calcutta, xii. 07 

 (Ind. Mus.), Chapra (Mackenzie), Pusa, x. and xi.05 (Pusa coll.); 

 CEYLOX : Colombo, Mullaitha and Kandy (0. S. Wiclavar). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This is a very representative species of a peculiar genus, but 

 no. one could have recognised Walker's species without examining 

 the typical male, which was captured by Dr. Thwaites in Ceylon. 

 A male in the Pusa collection was bred from an ochreous black- 

 spotted cocoon four millimetres in length, which is obviously 

 pendulous, since a thread of many strands, some ten millimetres 

 in length, is still attached to the extremity furthest from that 

 nearly in the centre of which the imago has cut a subcircular 

 emergence hole. 



326. Charops obtusus, sp. n. 



c? $ . A black species, with the legs partly and the abdomen 

 hardly red. Head dull and scabrously punctate throughout, with 

 white pilosity, strongly transverse, with the emarginate eyes not 

 at all prominent ; occiput sloping from the remote ocelli and not 



