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PlMPLA NEPE, Sp. tlOV. (PL 3, f. 4). 



Long. 13 mm.; terebra 4 mm. 



Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Almost identical in coloration with P. laothoe, but 

 may be known from it by the absence of the furrow on 

 the front and of the keels on the propleurae ; by the 

 scutellum being more closely and strongly punctured 

 and pale yellow in the centre. 



Head closely and strongly punctured below the 

 antennae ; the front widely depressed, impunctate, shining ; 

 the palpi dirty testaceous. Pro- and meso-notum strongly 

 and closely punctured, thickly covered with short pale 

 hair ; the scutellum thickly punctured behind, more 

 sparsely in front ; the top with a pale orange mark ; 

 the post-scutellum strongly longitudinally striolated. 

 Median segment with a gradually rounded slope from 

 the base to the apex ; coarsely rugosely punctured ; the 

 centre broadly raised in the middle towards the apex. 

 Pleurae and sternum punctured. All the coxae and 

 trochanters are black ; the former on the lower side 

 thickly covered with fulvous hair ; the hinder tarsi 

 black, except at the apex. The petiole with a deep 

 impunctate excavation at the base ; the other segments 

 closely and somewhat strongly punctured, except at the 

 extreme apex. 



OPHIONIDES. 

 Enicospilus ceylonicus, sp. nov. 



Flavus; alis hyalinis, stigmate fulvo. 2. Long. 15 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon, Trincomali (Yerbury). 



Antennae longer than the body, uniformly fulvous ; 

 the scape bare, the flagellum with a close microscopic 

 pile. Head fulvous, the face paler, more yellowish ; the 

 tips of the mandibles black ; the palpi testaceous ; the 

 ocelli very large, raised above the level of the eyes, 



