474 ICIINETTMONIDJE. 



convex ; postscutellura with dense silvery pubescence. Abdomen 

 broadest behind centre, distinctly punctate, apically smoother and 

 shining, with the second segment not aciculate ; postpetiole 

 distinctly dilated ; second and third segments basaliy constricted, 

 laterally and all the following entirely bright red; terebra slightly 

 longer than the basal segment or one-third the abdominal length, 

 with the spicula reflexed. Legs red, with the anterior paler ; 

 hind ones with coxae, base of femora and tibiae, apices of latter and 

 of tarsi, black ; claws spiuulose. Wings hyaline and not ample, 

 tegulae flavescent, stigma and nervures black ; areolet wanting 

 submarginal emitted before, and only one-third shorter than, the 

 second recurrent ; basal nervure subcoiitinuous ; radial cell long 

 and subacuminate at both extremities ; all apical nervures in hind 

 wing entirely wanting ; nervellus straight and not intercepted. 



Length 9 millim. 



CENTRAL PBOVINCES : Nagpur (Pusa coll.) ; BOMBAY : Deesa, 

 vi. 98 (Col. Nurse, type). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



Cameron's description of the legs and shape of the metathoracic 

 spiracles is very faulty. Unfortunately, he had formed a 

 misconception of the spiracular shape, and, as a matter of fact, so 

 far from being related to Zaporus, this species differs from his own 

 genus Bosmina only in having the metathoracic spiracles circular 

 and the apex of the scutellum not margined. Its facies is stouter, 

 the abdomen is broader apically and its petiole is not quite so 

 elongate. 



I have drawn the above description from the type. In the 

 Pusa collection are eleven specimens, all females, from Nagpur, 

 one bred from the Noctuid moth, Ccmtdrina exiyua, Guen., 

 and attached to its own unicolorous brown, hairy, cylindrical 

 cocoon, which is abruptly rounded and of equal breadth at both 

 extremities ; one ot the others was bred from a similar cocoon. 



368. Dioctes albicalcar, sp. n. 



J $ . A small black species with 

 somewhat dense silvery pubescence, 

 the legs and abdomen apically rufes- 

 cent, metanotal areola transverse and 

 the calcaria pale. 



Lewjtli 6 millim. 



BENGAL : Pusa, iv. 06 and iv. 07 



h(Pusa coll.) ; ASSAM : Shillong, v. 03 

 / \ (Rowland Turner). 



' * Type 2 in the British Museum. 



Very closely allied to the last 

 F ,' - 1 , 35> species and only differing in its 



immaculate black scape; the trans- 

 versely triangular areola, which 

 is confluent with the elongate petiolar area ; the non-aciculate 



