CBEMASTUS. 501 



Handl. 1858, p. 108). Van Vollenhoven described a rf of this 

 genus under the name C. balteatus in 1878 (Tijds. Ent. xxi, p. 168, 

 pi. x, fig. 6), from Breda, which Dalla Torre (Cat. Hym. iii. p. 33) 

 has erroneously rendered Batavia, in Java. 



394. Cremastus noxiosus, sp. n. 



J $ . A briglit flavous species with profuse black markings. 

 Head flavous, with the mandibular apices and interocellar space 

 black ; frons and vertex finely punctate and dull, scrobes small and 

 superficial : face transverse, dull and a little convex, with the 

 epistoma subprominent longitudinally, and the apically sharply 

 rounded clypeus strongly discrete basally. Anterinas'M long as the 

 body, very slender, dark, with the scape and flagellar base testaceous 

 beneath. Thorax deplanate and somewhat elongate, red in c? or 

 black in $ , with two narrow stripes on the finely and distinctly 

 punctate mesonotum and the preradical lines flavous ; frenum and 

 the whole disc of the metathorax black; areae very distinct ; basal 

 area elongate and triangular ; ai'eola hardly twice as long as broad 

 tit the basal third, whence the strong costulse are emitted, and 

 distinctly discrete from the basally rounded and apically parallel- 

 sided petiolar area which extends far above the hind coxae. 

 Scutellwn subconvex, briglit flavous and punctate. Abdom,en dis- 

 cally black and ventrally flavous, linear, with the strongly 

 aciculate second segment not broader than the base of the third, 

 and as long as the first segment ; basal segment parallel-sided to 

 centre and thence exactly fusiform to its apex, which is hardly 

 'broader than the petiole and very finely aciculate ; terebra black, 

 very slender and about half the length of the abdomen. Legs 

 testaceous, with the anterior coxa? substramineous ; hind tibiae 

 blackish at base and apex. Wings broad and somewhat ample ; 

 radii and tegula? flavescent, stigma and nervures dull ochreous ; 

 radial cell short and apically straight ; submarginal nervure longer 

 than half the recurrent, which is emitted not very closely beyond 

 it ; basal nervure continuous ; uervellus opposite and neither 

 .geniculate nor intercepted. 



Length 5-6 millim. 



BENGAL : Pusa, i. 06 and xi. 07. 



Type in the Pusa collection. 



Extremely similar to the species of Tarytia, but at once recog- 

 nised by the interception of the external cubital nervure by the 

 second recurrent distinctly beyond the submarginal. 



A unique pair of this pretty little species was bred at the 

 Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa from the Pyralid moth, 

 Antigastra catalaunalis. There, too, is a male with the occiput, 

 antennae, thorax and abdomen almost entirely black, render- 

 ing it superficially very distinct in appearance, though 1 find no 

 structural distinctions ' and propose to term it var. nigrescens; 

 it was bred from the hairy caterpillar of the Arctiid moth, 



