510 1CHXEUMONIDJE. 



finely punctate, the mesothorax and metapleurse more distinctly 

 so ; notauli deeply impressed ; basal area small and subquadrate ; 

 areola very elongate, hexagonal, and twice as long as broad, with 

 the costuise entire and emitted at the basal third ; petiolar area 

 discrete, trans-aciculate,basallv strong aud internally parallel-sided. 

 Scutellum glabrous and subdeplanate, with no lateral carinae. 

 Abdomen somewhat dull and closely alutaceous, with the anus 

 pilose ; basal segment linear nearly to its centre, arid thence 

 gradually a little widened and finely aciculate to apex ; second 

 slightly shorter, dull and finely aciculate throughout ; genital 

 valvulao pale aud very slightly exserted ; terebra very slender, and 

 slightly shorter than the abdomen. Legs with the hind femoral 

 tooth flavous. Wings hyaline, with the radix and tegulse fulvous, 

 stigma a little darker ; submarginal nervure very slightly longer 

 than its distance from the recurrent; nervellus geuiculate, but 

 not intercepted, distinctly below its centre. 



Length 7-8 millim. 



The 2 nas tne Dasa ' half of the second aud third abdominal 

 segments alone discally blackish. 



BENGAL : Chapra "(Mackenzie, type) ; CENTRAL PROVINCES : 

 Jfagpur (Pusa coll.) ; MADRAS : Attur (Pusa coll.), Kulattupuzha, 

 in Travancore, xi. 08 (N. Annandale). 



Type in the Pusa collection. 



Specimens in the Pusa collection have been bred from the 

 Pyralid moths, Euzophora perticella, Rag., and Leucinodes orbonalis, 

 Guen. 



Genus PRISTOMERIDIA, Ashm. 

 Pristomeridia, Ashmead, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1900, p. 100. 



GENOTYPE, Porizon agilis, Cresson. 



This genus was differentiated from Pristomerus by its entire 

 and not geniculate or intercepted nervellus, pentagonal aud not 

 hexagonal areola, the scarcely thickened hind femora, the tooth of 

 which is near the apex and not merely slightly beyond the centre. 

 It was erected for the reception of a single species, described 

 from Texas by Cresson (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 175), 

 and referred by him, with some hesitation, to the genus Porizon. 

 Our Indian insect certainly belongs here, though the areola 

 is hexagonal and the femoral tooth is at some distance from the 

 apex. 



Range. Nearctic Region, India. 



402. Pristomeridia secunda, sp. n. 



<j> . A small, black species, with the legs, abdomen, and antenna) 

 partly pale. Head a little broader than the thorax, with the 

 vertex transverse and the confluent scrobes trans-aciculate above 

 the antennae ; eyes internally entire and parallel ; face shining, 

 distinctly punctate, and a little elevated centrally ; clypeus discrete, 



