S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 45/1. (Budapest, 1984)

This species differs from the other species by the characters given in the key. It Is near to S. afrlcanus Móczár, 1970 (described from the Ethiopian territory, South African province and reported also from the Palearctic: Mediterranean region), but differs chiefly by tergite 2 without fine and scattered punctures, by head being not longer than broad, antennái joints 4, 7-9 of unequal lengths and breadths, nor joints 2+3+4 together hardly as long as scape, etc. Sulcomesitius evansl Móczár, 1970 Sulcomesitius evansi Móczár, 1970: Acta zool.hung. 16: 411, 422 £ , fig. 5 Specimen examined: 2 o (holotype) Nedungadu, Boriuti (paratype) India. - Distribution: IIIj 2 • India (MÓCZÁR 1970b). Sulcomesitius pilosus sp. n. o_

. - Length 5 mm. Head, thorax yellowish red, antennae brownish black, lower side of joints 1-6 darker yellowish red, 7-12 partly yellowish, labial and maxillar palpi, tegulae, upper side of femora, all tibiae brown, other parts of legs reddish brown. Wings normal, reaching beyond tergite 2, fore wings dark brown infuscated with lighter basis and a sharply margined broad hyaline band outside of cells, veins brown, pterostlgma yellow. Head, thorax sparsely covered with short white hairs, lateral part of abdominal tergite 2, tergites 3-6 also on posterior margins and ventral side of abdomen covered with rather dense, longer loose white hairs (fig. 43). Head slightly longer than broad (58 : 56), moderately broadened and stronly converging behind eyes, distance between posterior margin of eyes and occipital carina sh'ort, equal to length of antennái joint 3 (11), occipital carina arcuate; ocelli in a slight rectangular, nearly acute angle,posterior ocelli separated from each other by a distance slightly more of that from eyes, POL:OOL = 8:11, shallow groove developed outside of ocelli; a short frontal sulcus present only just above clypeus; frons shagreened only weakly shining, with shallow dense but deeper punctures than on masneri sp. n. ; eyes conspicuously large, convex, elongated, distinctly longer than broad (23 : 20), separated from mandibles by slightly greater distance than two-thirds breadth of eyes (13 : 18); anterior margin of clypeus arcuately protruding with sharp corners laterally and raised in a sharp and high longitudinal keel medially; antennae short, flagellum thickened medially, antenna! joints 1-3 slender, scape as long as joints 2-4 combined, joint 3 longer than 2, 2-3 remarkably longer than broad, 4-9 of equal size, 4-12 distinctly broader than long, length (and breadth) proportions of antennái joints 1-13 = 26(8): 10(6): 11(7): 5(7): 5(7): 5(7): 5(7): 5(7): 5(7): 5(6.5): 4(6): 4(5): 8(4). Length of pronotum slightly more than two-thirds as long as broad (28 : 39) or 1.4 times broader than long, anterior corners rather obtuse, similar to S. masneri sp. n., lateral sides nearly parallel, hardly concave anteriorly, diverging towards tegulae, posterior margin nearly straight only slightly emarginated and gradually impressed, surface shagreened with larger punctures than on head, longitudinal furrow deep and narrow. Mesonotum moderately shining with scattered smaller punctures, parapsidal furrows and notaulices well margined, longitudinal furrow deep. Scutellum with some scattered larger punctures. Propodeum longer than two-thirds breadth of its half diameter transversally (26 : 20) (fig. 42), or latter 1.30 times broader than its length medially, lateral margins straigt gradually diverging backwards, spines strong, as long as one-quarter of whole diameter of propodeum transversally before spines, or about two-thirds as long as propodeum medially (20 : 13), acute when viewed from above or from the side. Median carinae of propodeum partly indistinct (fig. 42), proximal diagonal deepening of central area basally conspicuously large, transversal wrinkles of sublateral and lateral areas rather fine. Lateral side of propodeum shagreened with scattered larger shallow punctures and with a distinct parallel wrinkle below the upper and posterior margin of propodeum and ending in tip of spine after fusing. Episternum coarsely sculptured with a rather deep and broad furrow transversally below tegulae. Abdomen smooth shining, tergite 1 polished with very few and very fine punctures medially and laterally (fig. 43), tergite 2 with dense and deep punctures medially and with denser punctures laterally, here and there also some smaller punctures among the larger ones, posterior one-third part of tergite 2 smooth (fig. 43), only with few punctures medially; proximal triangle along the ventro-lateral part smooth, polished, tergites 3-4 only finely punctured, hind margins of tergites 3-5 broadly semicircularly depressed in the middle. Sternite 2 with very deep dense punctures. - o . - Unknown. Holotype: £ : "Sri Lanka: Kan.Dist. Udawattakele Sankt. 25-27-IV-1981", (correctly Udawatte-