752 MR. E. A. ELLIOTT ON THE 



scutellum smooth. Mesopleurfe nearly smooth ; metapleurse 

 transrugose, separated by a sulcus from the cribrate-punctate 

 median segment. Petiole trans-striate, longer than rest of 

 abdomen, which is feebly shining, discally depressed. Hind legs 

 with coxa3 trans-striate above ; femora alutaceous, shining, 

 bidentate ; tibiae constricted to beyond middle. 



Black ; head red, upper part of frons, the vertex, and occiput 

 black, with a broad red mark behind the posterior ocelli ; outer 

 orbits yellowish ; scape and basal flagellar joint i-ufous. "Wings 

 subfuscous, nervures black. 



Length 12 mm. 



Habitat : Baram District, Low Country, Sarawak. Robt. 

 Shelford. Type in British Museum. 



The peculiar generic name " Megiseleus" appears to be a 

 printer's error. If the writing were indistinct, the " ch" might 

 easily be mistaken for " ele." 



8. EBURNEUS Morley. 



Parastephanellus ehurneus Morley (1), p. 35, 2 d • 



5 . Frons rugose, trans-striate. The three anterior frontal 

 tubercles acuminate, front one longest and recurved ; posterior 

 pair smaller and I'ounded. Occiput finely trans-striate. Posterior 

 margin of head bordered. Second flagellar joint one and a half 

 times as long as first ; third shorter than first and second 

 together. Neck short, smooth, and shining ; semiannular finely 

 ruo-ose. Mesopleuraj obsoletely trans-striate and dull ; meta- 

 pleurte smooth and shining, separated by a deep sulcus from the 

 median segment, which is smooth, with large, diffuse punctures. 

 Petiole with basal half finely trans-striate, longer than remainder 

 of abdom-en, which is dull and obsoletely punctate. Terebra 

 shorter than body, sheaths black. Hind legs with coxse obsoletely 

 transaciculate ; femora nearly smooth and shining, bidentate ; 

 tibise compressed to middle. 



Black; face, clypeus, mandibles except apically, and a streak at 

 the inner orbits testaceous white ; a. broad stripe from base of 

 mandibles to near occiput ivory-white ; scape and basal flagellar 

 joint testaceous ; base and apex of intermediate tibiae white. 

 Wings clear hyaline, stigma pale. 



Length 6 mm. ; terebra 5 mm. 



(^ . Similar to § ; petiole piceous, genital valvulse testaceous. 



Length 3 1 mm. 



The 2 was taken by 0, S. "Wick war at Candy, Ceylon, Feb. 

 1910 ; the 6 by Green, on a leaf infested by a Coccid, jffemi- 

 cMonaspis hrasiliensis, at Pradenula, Ceylon, June 1909. Types 

 in British Museum. 



Similar to the Australian P. rufo-ornatus Cam., c? , but the 

 petiole is longer, the sculpture of median segment is difierent, 

 and the coloration is ver^ distinctive. 



