86 



ICnNEUMONID.Ti:. 



with some liesitation thtat I liere place a male, of whose female I 

 am ignorant, and describe it as new, since Ashmead makes no 

 mention, in 1900, of tlie very buecate temples, and his species is 

 from Missouri, in America. 



Fig. 18. 

 Callic2iMaltes xaiitliosoma, Mori. 



44, Calliephialtes xanthosoma, sp. n. 



cJ . A somewhat small flavous species, with black antennae and 

 markings. Head strongly buecate posteriorly and as broad as the 

 eyes ; flavidous, with a triangular central patcli on the occiput, 

 extending forward round the ocelli, and the apices of the mandibles, 



black ; vertex broad and glabrous, 

 scrobes ill-defined and large ; face 

 deplanate, entirely stramineous, 

 nitidulous and sliallowly punctate, 

 apically truncately separated from 

 the short flavous, centrally ele- 

 vated and apically subtruncate 

 clypeus ; mandibles testaceous, 

 somewhat stout, with the subequal 

 teeth apically obtuse ; palpi pale, 

 cheeks obsolete. Antenna' nearly 

 as long as the body, filiform, black, 

 with the scape stramineous, and 

 the flagellum basally ferruginous, 

 beneath. Thorax flavous and 

 sti'ongly nitidulous, Avith a dot on the front of the mesonotum, 

 a hamate mark on either side of it, a circular dot on the meso- 

 pleuraj, the apex of the nitidulous, exareolate and flavous-pilose 

 metathorax, a dot at the apex of the scutellum, anotlier before it, 

 and the wliole ])ostscutellum black ; metatliorax entirely glabrous, 

 with the spiracles quite circular and small. Abdomen flavous, 

 with the apices of all the segments deep black, strongly and 

 sparsely punctate throughout ; basal segment bicarinate to the 

 centre only ; the five following broadly tuberculate on either 

 side; valvulse infuscate and hardly exserted. Ler/s tiavidous 

 and normal, Avith all the claws infuscate and not basally lobate ; 

 hind ones with the trochanters, extreme base and apex of their 

 tibiae, and the whole tarsi, infuscate. Wings normal and hyaline ; 

 radix and tegulte flavous ; costa and stigma, except the testaceous 

 base of the latter, black ; areolet broadly subtriangular, emitting 

 the recurrent nervure from near its apex ; first recurrent of hind 

 wings a little postfurcal, emitting tlie uervellus from its exact 

 centre. 



Length 8 millim, 



SiKKiM (Bingham). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Described from a single specimen. 



