472 ICHXEUMOXID.E. 



This species appears to be closely allied to Limneria elisJice, 

 Bridg. (Trans. Eut. Soc. 1884, p. 426), but it is very much larger 

 and its metathoracic costulae are distinctly more prominent . 



Green bred two males and three females of this distinct species 

 from the Cocoanut caterpillar, Nepliuntis seriopa ; there is a broken 

 specimen, which I fancy may also belong here, in the Pusa collec- 

 tion, bred on 26th October, 1904, from the Pyralid moth, Anteyastra 

 catalairnalis, at Surat in Bombay. 



365. Dioctes vulgaris, sp. 11. 



c? $ . A small black species, with somewhat dense silvery 

 pubescence, the legs mainly and most of the abdomen red ; 

 metanotal areola elongate. Head distinctly constricted behind 

 the glabrous and internally very broadly emarginate eyes ; clypeus 

 with no apical tooth or lateral foveae ; face of $ not apically 

 constricted ; frons deplanate and simple ; mandibles and palpi 

 entirely testaceous. Antenna; longer than half the body, filiform 

 and black, with the flagellar joints elongate ; scape clear 

 testaceous, with a single black external line. Thorax immaculate, 

 a little longer than high ; taetathorax short, with its petiolar 

 area strongly concave ; areola hexagonal and half as long again as 

 broad, emitting distinct costulae before its centre; basal area 

 minute and triangular ; lateral carinae strong, spiracles small and 

 oval. Scutellum black and not convex. Abdomen red, pubescent 

 and strongly compressed from base of the third segment ; basal 

 segment except at its extreme apex, the basal two-thirds of the 

 second except laterally, and in d often base of third segment, 

 black ; first segment elongate and linear to near its suborbicular 

 apex, second finely shagreened and slightly widened apically, with 

 its conspicuous thyridii red ; c? valvular stout and rufescent ; 

 terebra not longer than half the basal segment, though distinctly 

 exserted, black and subreflexed. Legs somewhat slender but not 

 elongate, clear red, with the anterior trochanters basally and the 

 hind ones paler ; hind coxae entirely and the extreme base of the 

 intermediate ones black; hind tarsi, apices of their tibiae, and 

 base of their femora externally, blackish ; hind metatarsus half 

 the length of its tibia. Wings hyaline, with the radix and tegulae 

 utramineous, stigma distinct and piceous ; areolet wanting ; basal 

 nervure slightly postfurcal ; radial cell not broad ; nervellus 

 entire and not geniculate. 



Length 6-7 millim. 



UNITED PBOVINCES : Mussoori, x. 06 (//. M. Lefroy} BENGAL : 

 Chapra (Mackenzie, type), Pusa, i. 05, and Behar, x. 07 (G. R. Dutt 

 Pusa coll.); CEYLON: Peradeniya, iii. 06 (E. E. Green). 



Type in the Pusa collection. 



This species appears very similar to Jlymenobosmina spinipes, 

 Cain., which I do not know, and Cameron makes no mention of 

 the metathoracic spiracles, though in his figure (Joe. cit.) the 



