TABYTIA. 503 



5 (2) Notauli distinct; scutellum niti- 



dulous and punctate. 



6 (7) cT only ; notauli extending to disc 



of mesonotum cariniscutis, Cam.,t p.' 504. 



7 (6) 5 only ; notauli confined to the 



apical declivity basimacula, Cam., p. 505. 



8 (1) Second recurrent emitted distinctly 



beyond submarginal flavo-orbitalis, Cam., p. 506. 



395. Tarytia nigromaculata, Cam. 



Turytia nigromaculata, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1907, p. 



c? . A flavidous testaceous species. Head flavous, with the 

 ocellar region, two broad frontal stripes, and the centre of the 

 occiput broadly, black ; face and clypeus finely and closely punc- 

 tate, frons and vertex somewhat more strongly punctate, with the 

 frons centrally elevated and rufescent. Antennae infuscate-brun- 

 neous, \vith the flavous scape black above. Thorax with the 

 mesonotum closely and strongly punctate, laterally rufescent, 

 with flavous stripes on either side of a broad black central 

 stripe at the apical two-thirds ; radical foveae, and a broad and 

 apically curved mark on basal third of metanotal disc, black ; 

 metanotum more strongly punctate, with the petiolar area closely 

 and strongly striate ; pleurae not more finely punctate thau the 

 mesonotum, but more strongly so towards their apices. Scutellum 

 closely and strongly granulate, roundly declivous throughout. 

 Abdomen glabrous, dorsally rufescent, with base of first segment, 

 basal half of the finely and closely aciculate second, and base of 

 the third, black ; basal segment abruptly dilated from its apical 

 third; second segment thrice as long as broad. Legs: anterior 

 pairs stramineous ; hind ones red, with the tibiae and tarsi 

 darker, trochanters and coxae stramineous ; tarsi dark, hind 

 tibias with a dark band before the base. Wings hyaline, with 

 the stigma pale testaceous, externally darker, and the nervures 

 paler. 



Length 7 millim. 



BOMBAY: Deesa, x. 98 (Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



Very distinct from its congeners in the dull and granulate 

 scutellum, the entire lack of any trace of the notauli, and in the 

 continuation of the second recurrent nervure with the sub- 

 marginal. 



t Mr. Green has sent me a fragment of an interesting new species 

 ("No. 857") which he bred at Peracleniya in Ceylon, in December 1901, 

 from a fruit of Solanum inclongela, infested by larvae of the Pyralid moth 

 Leuoinodes orbonalis. It is larger, with darker stigma, than any described 

 Tarytia and approaches T. cariniscutis in its entire mesonotal notauli. 



