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Show 1896.1 HYMENOPTERA OF CEYLON. 447 tegulae, and a line on the postscutellum posteriorly, yellow; prothorax anteriorly smooth and shining, the mesothorax above closely and finely punctured, and the metathorax posteriorly rounded and rather closely and coarsely punctured, the punctures running into oblique divergent striae ; the wings hyaline, the front wing brownish yellow along the costal margin. Legs black, the anterior and intermediate femora and tibiae marked with yellow on the outside, the posterior tibia? yellow, black at the base ; the tarsi piceous. The abdomen sub-petiolate, broadly oval, black, smooth and shining; the basal segment and the base of the 2nd segment above finely punctured, the 2nd' to the 5th segments with lateral yellow maculae at their bases, the apical segment and the abdomen beneath black. Pundaloya (Green coll.). This species is closely allied to C.fuscipennis, Lepeletier, but is abundantly distinct in size, in colour of the wings, and in the markings. Genus DASYPROCTUS, Lepeletier. 266. DASYPROCTUS CEYLONICUS, Saussure. Dasyproctus ceylonicus, Sauss. Hym. d. Novara-Beise, 85 $, tab. iv. f. 51; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, iii. (1890), 275, 1. Eecorded by de Saussure from Ceylon, occurs also in Sikkim and Burma. Genus OXYBELUS, Latreille. 267. OXYBELUS INSULARIS, Kohl. Oxybelus insularis, Kohl, Termesz. Fiizetek, viii. (1884), 109 $ Cam. Mem. & Proc Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, iii. (1890), 276, 7. 268. OXYBELUS LEWISI, Cameron. Oxybelus lewisi, Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, iii. (1890), 282. Genus STIGMUS, Jurine. 269. STIGMUS NIGER, Motschulsky. Stigmus niger, Motsch. Bull. Soc. Imp. d. Nat, Mosc 1863, 23. Pundaloya (Green coll.). This species is very close to the ordinary S. pendulus, Panz., found in Europe. 270. STIGMUS CONGRUENS, Walker. Stigmus congruens, Walk. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, v. (I860), 304; Tenn. Nat. Hist. Ceylon, ch. xii. 454; Motsch. Bull. Soc. Imp. d. Nat. Mosc. 1863, 23. |