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SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
ON SOME UNDESCR6BED ICHNEUMON6D/E AND BRACO- 
NID/Ej REARED BY MR. T. BASNBRSGGE FLETCHER, 
R.N., FROM CEYLONESE LEPiDOPTERA 
(PTEROPHORID/E). 
By P. Cameron. 
T”N this paper I have described one species of Ichneumonidae and 
five of Braconidae, reared by Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher 
R.N., F.E.S., from the larvae of moths, collected and reared by him 
in Ceylon, while stationed on board H. M. S. “ Sealark.” The Bra- 
conid genus Apanteles appears to be well represented in Ceylon. 
Several species of Microgaster have been described by Walker and 
by the Russian Entomologist Motschulsky, none of which I have 
been able to identify. Whether the species described by these 
authors belong to Microgaster, sensu stricto or, as is most likely, to 
Apanteles, is a point which can only be settled by an examination of 
the types, if these be still in existence. 
At the request of Mr. Fletcher I send the descriptions for publica¬ 
tion in Spolia Zeylanica. 
ICHNETJMONIDiE. 
Hymenobosmina trichoptilus , sp. n. 
Black, the antennal scape and the legs fulvo-testaceous, the 
scape and the four front coxae and trochanters paler, more yellowish 
in tint ; the hind coxae, except narrowly at the apex, the apex of the 
hind tibiae, and the hinder tarsi black ; the apex of the first abdomi¬ 
nal segment, the apical third of the second, and the sides of the third 
to sixth, testaceous ; the second ventral segment pale yellow, the 
others testaceous, more or less infuscated. Wings hyaline ; the 
stigma dark fuscous, the costa and nervures blackish. Basal five 
or seven joints of flagellum of antennae dark rufo-testaceous. Male. 
Length 4 mm. 
Galle, Ceylon. Bred from Trichoptilus oxydaclylus. December. 
Head with the face, clypeus and cheeks densely covered with 
silvery pubescence, as are also the pleurae and, more particularly, the 
metapleurae and metanotum. The pile on front and vertex sparse 
and short. Mandibles yellow, their teeth blackish ; the palpi of a 
paler yellow. Base of metanotum with two areas, widened distinctly 
on the outer side ; their keels unite at the base, forming almost an 
area, widened towards the base ; there is a distinct areola, longer 
