90 ICHNEUMONID.E. 



trans-strigose ; mandibles and the basally aciculate cheeks black. 

 Antenmi; black, ferruginous and slightly incrassate towards their 

 apices, with the fUigellum piceous beneath at the base. Thorax 

 flavous ; mesonotum, excepting for marks at radices and a large, 

 elongate and laterally parallel-sided Aitta on the disc, black ; the 

 transverse striations stronger and more widely separated laterally 

 than discally ; pro- and meso-pleura? gl.'ibrous and nitididous, with 

 the latter broadly at the base and more narrowly below at the 

 ,ipex, black ; mesosternum with a trans\erse series of infuscate 

 lines on either side; metathorax narrowly black basally, centrally 

 smooth and broadly canaliculate, laterally closely punctate, with 

 a broad semicircular apical black band ; metapleurje obscurely 

 punctate in the centre with the base and apex black-lined. 

 Scutdlum finely and closely trans-strigose, flavous, with its extreme 

 apex centrally, like the glabrous and nitidulous postscutellum, 

 black. Abdomen nitidulous, ilavous, with all the segments nar- 

 rowly black at the base and more broadly so at the apex, punctate, 

 Avith their apices glabrous ; apical ones also longitudinally black 

 centrally ; terebra one-fourth longer than the body. Legs flavous, 

 with the apices of the hind coxa3, their tibia? basally and all the 

 tarsi apically, black. Wings hyaline, with their apices inf umate ; 

 costa, stigma and nervures black ; the second recurrent uervure 

 broadly fenestrate ; upper basal intercepting the median nervure 

 of the foi^e Avings distinctly beyond the loAver basal nervure. 



Length 15 millim. 



Assam : Khasi Hills (lioihneg, type). Sikkim (Bingham, 

 Tar., Brit. Mus.). 



Tgije in the Oxford Museum. 



I have seen two females of this species differing slightly from 

 the above description in having the metanotum glabrous and 

 nitidulous, throughout with no trace of area?, the mesonotum 

 laterally flavous throughout, the mesosternum entirely black and 

 the pleura; obliquely black in the centre, and the hind coxa3 and 

 tibiae immaculate flavous. The intermediate coxoe are internally 

 black-marked; the mandibles short and obliquely unidentate 

 apically ; the metathoracic spiracles elongate-oval and very small; 

 the basal segment shorter than the second ; the nervellus inter- 

 cepting the first recurrent of the lower wing at its junction with 

 the median; and the terebral valvulse are distinctly incrassate 

 apically. 



48. Epirhyssa ornatipes, Cam. 



Epirliyssd ornatipes, Cameron, Spolia Zeylanica, 1905, p. 132 (J). 



A pale fulvous species, with black markiiigs. Head glabi'ous 

 and nitidulous, with short white pubescence ; frons centrally, the 

 occiput, the ocellar region, an extension from it laterally to the 

 orbits, the mandibles and their basal region, black. Antennce 

 immaculate black. Thorax shining and smooth ; the trans- 

 striate mesonotum nitidulous black, with a large central fulvous 



