76 ichneumonidyt:. 



segment, and apices of llie remainder more narrow])', flavous ; 

 the three basal segments, except at their apices, closely and fine!}'' 

 punctate ; terebra slightly longer than half the body (9 millim.). 

 Legs pale flavous, with the hind femora fulvescent ; hind legs 

 with the apices of all the joints black ; hind coxae four times as 



Fig. in. — Jj'itht/mcris loiif/ipes, Cam. 



long as broad and extending to the centre of the second seg- 

 ment. Wings hyaline, with the nervures and stigma black. 



Lenfjtfi 17 millim. 



SiKiciM {Col. C. T. Binqham, type). Burma: Karen Hills, 

 3000-3700 ft., vi. 1888 {L. >m— Genoa Mus.). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Genus XYLONOMUS, Grav. 

 Xylonomiis, Graverdiorst, Ichn. Ear. iii, 1829, p. 819. 

 Genotvpe, Iclineumon prcfcatorius, P. 



Abdomen subsessile, deplanate and basally scabrous ; areolet 

 wanting ; legs and terebra normal. Head short, subtransverse or 

 subglobose, with the face quadrate and not narrowed towards tlie 

 mouth ; clypeus very short, subcircular, basally discrete, often 

 strongly depressed, and remote from the orbiculate-oval and 

 somewhat small eyes ; genal costa inflexed to\\ards the base of the 

 peristoniium ; mandibles small, straight, subconical and triangular, 

 apically subentire ; palpi elongate, setaceous and pubescent, with 

 the basal joint obconical and truncate, the second broader, cultri- 

 form and internally produced, the apical more slender and longer 

 than the penultimate. Antennte slender, usually white-banded 

 and sometimes setiferous, stouter in $ ; scape and pedicellus of 

 equal length and subglobose, the latter exserted and a little the^ 



