146 ICHNEUMONID.E. 



uiulerside of coxa) with dense fulvous pubescence ; tarsi spinose 

 and much longei' than the tibia). Wings flavesceut hyaline, with 

 a ilavous dot at base of tegulce. 



Length 15 millim. 



Ceylon : Pundaluoya {E. E. Green). 



Unknown to nie. 



Genus ORIENTOTHERONIA, gen. nov. 



Genotype, 0. rufescens, sp. n. 



Clypeus truncate at base and apex ; labrum uot exserted ; 

 mandibular teeth of equal length ; cheeks obsolete ; eyes dee])ly 

 emarginate internally. Antennae stout. Mesonotum not trans- 

 versely strigose, with obsolete notauli ; metathoracic areae strongly 

 carinate, with only the apex of tlie areola weak ; basal area wanting, 

 petiolar entire ; apophyses strongly but obtusely dentate ; spiracles 

 linear and not small. Scuteilum not convex, with its lateral 

 carina narrow and not extending beyond the centre. Abdomen 

 impuMctate, obsoletely alutaceous ; basal segment not carinate, 

 the second in 5 transverse ; terebra shorter than abdomen. All 

 the femora subincrassate, the anterior canaliculate but not toothed 

 beneath ; claws simple, neither pectinate nor basaliy lobate. 

 Areolet entire and sessile ; stigma narrow ; median nervure of 

 hind wing pellucid at the base ; nervellus emitted above centre. 



Eange. India, Burma, Ceylon, China. 



This genus is closely allied to both Lissoplmpla, Kriech., and 

 ^?Zo«7ieron/a, Ashm. (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. lUOO, p. 55); but it 

 has neither the dentate femora and deeply impressed notauli of 

 the one, nor the " metathorax exareolated but with a strong 

 transverse apical area " and the basaliy entire median nervure of 

 the other, which is known only by a single MS. species from New 

 .Zealand. 



Table of Species. 



1 (4) Nervelet wanting ; first segment basaliy 



constricted. 



2 (3) Hind tibia) and antennae red; radius sub- 



sinuate rufescens, sp. n., p. 146. 



3 (2) Hind tibiae with black markings, antennte 



black ; radius nearly straight maculipes, sp. n., p. 148. 



4 (1) Nervelet distinct ; fir^t segment sub- 



parallel-sided throughout acheron, sp. u., p. 149. 



94. Orientotheronia rufescens, sp. n. 



(S $ . A tawny species, with black and flavous markings. Head 

 flavous and not strongly narrowed nor abruptly declivous behind 

 the eyes ; occiput obsoletely puuctate, bordered and black below; 

 ocelli and scrobes black, the latter not small ; face apically 



