142 ICHNEUMONID.i:. 



Sd. Theronia nigrobalteata, Cam. 



Theronia nujvohaltcatu, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 153 ($ ). 



5 . A fulvous species, M'ith black markings, the wings apically 

 infuniate and the stigma pale. Head fulvous, witli the face 

 punctate throughout aud flavescent above ; clypeus glabrous and 

 the mandibidar teeth black. Aniemue stout and bruuneous, be- 

 coming darker towards tlieir apices, with the scape paler. Thorax : 

 mesonotum piceous witli its sides and two central vitta? flavous, 

 the scutellar fovea aud lines near the teguhc black ; metathorax 

 basally black, widened laterally to the apex of tlie spiracles ; 

 areola deplanate and subquadrate, the external arese longer than 

 broad and apically constricted ; central carinae indistinct and the 

 lateral stronger ; pro- and meso-pleurae smooth and shining, witli 

 the apex of the former narrowly, a longitudinal line beneath the 

 radix, and an oblique line extending to base of the coxae, black. 

 ScuteUitm fulvous, with its apex broadly black and the sides 

 flavescent ; postscutelluin flavous, with large basal fovese. Abdo- 

 men rufescent with the segmental apices flavous ; three basal 

 segments basally black, the remainder broadly black apically ; 

 petiolar fovea sliallow and extending to the apex ; second seg- 

 ment longitudinally canaliculate basally in the centre, and laterally 

 obliquely incised ; terebra 3 millim. Ler/s : anterior pairs flavous, 

 with their femora, aud the intermediate tibiae and tarsi, f ulvescent ; 

 hind coxa? broadly black internally at the base, their trochanters 

 iipically, femora broadly in the centi-e, aud the tibice, red ; their 

 tarsi infuscate. Wim/s hyaline, ^^•ith their apices infumate ; stigma 

 testaceous ; areolet oblique, laterally coalesced above and emitting 

 the recurrent nervure shortly beyond the centre. 



Length 10 millim. 



Assam : Khasi Hills (llotlmeij). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



" Comes near to T. areolata, but is smaller ; has the thorax and 

 abdomen marked with black, and otherwise may be known by tlie 

 central area on the base of the median segment [metatlioracic 

 areola] being square and not hollowed" (Cameron, loc. cit.). 



90. Theronia iridipeiinis, Cam. 



Theronia i?-{(h'pennis, Cameron, Tijds. Eut. 1907, p. 99 (c?). 



6 . A pale flavous species, smooth and shining, with " a broad 

 line on the centre of the apex behind black." Jlead with the face 

 densely covered with elongate white pubescence. ^n^eHjio; ferru- 

 ginous, with the scape flavous beneath. Thorax : mesonotum with 

 three broad infuscate lines ; a black line throughout the meso- 

 pleurae immediately below the radix and a similar one, curving 

 forwards below, on the lower half of their apices ; metathorax 

 with a straight oblique slope and dense elongate white pubescence ; 



