48 iciixEUMOXiu.i:. 



stigma, and longer basally than apically; fenestrse minute and 

 broadly discreted; recurrent nervure hardly sinuate; lower wings 

 with the first recurrent strongly postfurcal. 



llanf/e. Europe, ISilikim, Burma, Japan, Mahiy Archipelago, 

 Tasmania, Texas, Canada. 



The head, thorax, and legs resemble those of Ephialtes, but 

 the abdomen and wings are more similar to those of certain 



OPHIOXIJf.E. 



This genus, a $ of which is figured by Ratzeburg (Ichn. Forst. 

 iii, p. 94), was placed by Gravenhorst under Banclius and originally 

 contained females only, since he erroneously relegated the males to 

 his Ophionid genus Macrus. They were united by Wesmael, in 

 his " Notice sur les Ichneunionides de Belgique appartenant aux 

 genres Ileto/nKS, Baachus et Coleocentrus^' in 1849, iu which he 

 states the opinion that they belong rather to the PimplinvE. 

 Thomson retains the genus in this position on account of the 

 obhque incision of the basal segments, though indicating the 

 affinity shown with the Ophionin^ by the apically compressed 

 abdomen. 



16. Coleocentriis moUerii, Bing. 



Coleocentms moUerii, Bingham, Jourii. Bomb. Nat. Hist. See. 1898, 

 p. 116, pi. A, figs. 4, 4a, 46(5). 



A verv large black species, with profuse flavous markings. 

 Head black, with the clypeus, face below antennae, a dot at the 

 frontal orbits, and the cheeks flavous ; vertex with a few shallow 

 punctures. Antennce elongate and filiform, with the scape intu- 

 mescent, flavous beneath and deeply emarginate externally ; 

 flagellar pints apically oblique. Thorax black, with the pronotum 

 anteriorly and at its hind lateral angles, two short discal stripes on 

 the oval, convex and transversely rugose mesonotuui, mesopleurse, 

 the whole of the laterally flat, posteriorly rounded and apically 

 •obliquely sloped metanotum, and large spots on the metapleurse, 

 flavous. Scutellum punctate with its base, and a dot on either 

 side, flavous ; postscutellum very small and compressed. Abdomen 

 nitidulous, with all the segments flavous-banded before the apex, 

 the basal ones depressed and deplanate, the apical subcompressed ; 

 the two basal segments discally glabrous, the remainder finely 

 punctate above at the base ; flavous bands of the fourth and 

 fifth segments laterally dilated, that of the sixth modified into a 

 transverse diamond-shaped spot ; terebra a little longer than one 

 and a half times the length of the body (51 millim.), with the 

 valvulse ferruginous. Legs black ; the front ones with the coxae 

 •and trochanters apically, the femora iu front, and whole of tibiae 

 and tarsi, flavous ; posterior legs with coxal spots, the trochanters 

 basally, the intermediate femora externally and apically, the apical 

 half of the hind ones, the apical half of the intermediate tibife and 

 .the centre of the hind ones, flavous ; posterior tarsi ferruginous. 



