432 Mr. Cameron on 



with a small cockroach. P. Greeni was reared by Mr. Green 

 from a cocoon in what had evidently been a large spider's 

 nest between two leaves ; and he surmised that the grub 

 had been feeding on the spider's eggs. 



Ceropales. 



Ceropales^ Latreille, Prec. car act. gen. Ins. 1796, p. 123 ; 

 Kohl, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1884, p. 51. 



I. Ceropales fuscipennis. 



Ceropales fucipennis^ Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins.^ iii., p. 179.^ 



Hub. India.^ 



This agrees with Orieiitalis closely in the colouration of 

 the head, thorax, and legs, but differs in having the abdomen 

 ferruginous, black at the base. 



2. Ceropales orientalis, sp. nov. (PI. III. f 4). 



Black, pruinose, the abdomen with a bluish tinge ; the 

 clypeus, except a triangular black mark in the centre, the 

 mandibles except at the apex, the inner orbits broadly to 

 the ocelli, the outer orbits from near the top of the eyes to 

 the mandibles, a broad line on the pronotum, narrowly 

 incised in the middle, and broadly at the sides in front, two 

 elongate marks on the scutellum, a small mark on the 

 propleurae, a large one immediately over the middle coxae ; 

 the fore coxae broadly beneath, the middle coxse with a 

 small and a large mark beneath and two broad bands on 

 the base of the second abdominal segment, clear whitish- 

 yellow ; the trochanters, femora, tibiae, and tarsi red ; the 

 spurs and a line on the four hinder tibiae yellow ; the middle 

 tibiae entirely, the hinder black and yellow behind; the 

 tarsal joints black at the apices, the anterior with the 

 joints whitish at the base. Eyes slightly curved above, 

 reaching to the base of the mandibles, diverging slightly 

 beneath. Ocelli in a curve, the vertex depressed in 



