438 



the postpetiole, shorter metathorax, very much shorter metatarsi, 

 and especially the obtuse lower apical angle of the discoidal cell, 

 which in the latter is a little more than rectangular, appear to 

 render it sufficiently distinct. 



The type was bred at Surat from its own cocoon, which is six 

 millimetres in length, dull ochreous, with black markings stronger 

 at the extremities, with a pedicle of about four millimetres in 

 length, stout, and weakly woven of many strands, at the end of 

 which it doubtless swung free. 



327. Charops erythrogaster, Aslim. 



CJiantps erytJirogatter, A.shmead, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1896, 

 p. 644 (rf 2). 



c? 2 . Head strongly transverse, with the vertex acute, black, 

 M ith fine griseous pubescence ; mandibles and palpi whitish ; eyes 

 subreniform. Antennas filiform and extending to the second 

 abdominal segment, black, with the scape red beneath and the 

 flagellar joints strongly transverse before the apices. Thoraw 

 short ovate, dull black, with griseous pubescence and close puuc- 

 tation; notauli somewhat distinct ; metanotum apically truncate^ 

 with oval spiracles and no carinae. Abdomen double the length of 

 the thorax, compressed, black in r? , red in 2 ; petiole always 

 black, as long as the intermediate femora and less than half the 

 length of the remainder of the abdomen ; ventral plica of c? alone 

 pale; terebra hardly exserted, with the valvulae black. Legs red,. 

 with the posterior ( 2 ) or all ( c? ) the coxa? black ; basal joint of 

 hind trochanters, extreme base of their femora and more or less 

 of their tarsi dark ; d with the intermediate legs more or les& 

 entirely dark and the hind ones black. Wings hyaline, with the 

 nervures piceous, stigma narrow and lanceolate, and tegula? 

 whitish ; third discoidal cell longer than the first ; second recurrent 

 emitted from the cubital beyond the submarginal. 



Length 6-6'5 millim. 



CEYLOX: Pundaluoya (E. E. Green). 



Type. Xo. 3264 in the United States Museum. 



I have not seen this species, which must be quite distinct in 

 its red legs, excarinate metathorax, discally black scape and black 

 <S abdomen, from either of the preceding. 



A single pair was bred by Mr. Green from the larva of a species 

 of Eupterote. 



Genus HYMENOBOSMINA, D. T. 



Bosmina, Cameron (nee Baird, 1845), Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 120. 

 Jfymeitobosmhia, Dalla Torre, Cat. Ichn., 1901, p. 136; Scbniie- 



deknecht, Opusc. Ichn. xx, 1908, p. Io23. 

 Neobosmina, Cameron, Entoni. 1906, p. 250. 



GEXOTTPE, Bosmina spinipes, Cam. 



Head with the clypeus not discrete : eyes internally roundly, 

 but not deeply, emarginate ; mandibular teeth stout and unequal 

 in length. Antenna 1 as long as the body. Metathoracic area) 



