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stramineous, of 2 ^^i'^i ll'« three apical joints fulvous. Antenna' 

 a little shorter tban the hody ; of $ very slender, tiliform througli- 

 out with the basal flagellar joints apically subiiodulose andtlietirst 

 nearly half as long again as the second ; of (S stouter, apically sub- 

 attenuate, witli the basal Hagellar joints much shorter ; flagellum 

 sometimes dull ferruginous beneath, scape punctate. Thorax stout, 

 gibbous, immaculate; mesonotuni and mesosternuin evenly punctate 

 and nitidulous, with obsolete notauli ; mesopleura) strongly punctate 

 and posteriorly strigose: metathorax subde])lanate and scabrous, 

 with the arete wanting, lateral carina' stout and obtuse, ami spiracles 

 elongate-oblojig. IScutdhtm deplanate, shining, glabrous, with 

 sparse brown pilosity, black ; in both sexes rarely more or less 

 apically tlavous. Abdomen black, of d subcylindrical, of $ oblong- 

 ovate, longer and hardly narrower than the head and thorax ; 

 first segment not carinate, basally excavate, centrally bituberculate 

 in 2 , and apically subelevated ; the four basal segments scabricu- 

 lously punctate, with a subobsolete transversely impressed line 

 and a small oblique basal impression ou either side, apically shining 

 and slightly elevated ; the remainder smooth with no impressions ; 

 terebra hardly half tlie length of the abdomen, \^ith the valvula) 

 shortly pilose. Legs somew hat stout but not short, red or fulvous ; 

 coxae and trochanters black, with the latter sometimes apically 

 red ; hind tarsi except rarely basally, black ; claws stout, ciu'ved, 

 ferruginous, distinctly a little longer than the pulvilli, neither 

 pectinate nor in $ lobate basally. iri»//.s normal, sometimes more 

 or less infumate ; stigma and radix black, piceous or ferruginous, 

 with the former always distinctly paler basally ; tegulaj black, 

 usually white-marked and in d often entirely pale stramineous ; 

 areolet subsessile, somewhat trausvei'se ; the internal cubital 

 sinuate, with uo nervelet ; nervellus strongly postfurcal and 

 intercepting far above the centre. 



Lenr/th lU-20 millira. 



Pu>-j.vb: Simla, 7000 ft., x. (»7 (Pusa coll.), v. 97 and viii. 98 

 (Col. Nurse) ; SiKKiM, 4U00 ft., iv. 94 (Col. Blnfjham); Bengal : 

 Pusa, iv. 07 (B. Singh) ; Assam : Shillong, v. 03 (lioivland 

 Tamer), Khasi Hills (IF. F. Bcuhjleij, and Ind, Mus.); Maoras : 

 Eangalore (Ind. ]\rus.) ; Cetlon : Pundaluoya {Bingham), V(At\- 

 pola, xii. 07 {T. Bainhrigge Fletcher). EuKOi'E. 



This is an unusually constant species, appareutl)- varying in 

 nothing but size. The variety intermedia is very distinct in its 

 constantly smaller size of about 9 millim., tlie frons less excavate, 

 with the vertex more closely punctate, metanotum basally sub- 

 canaliculate, apices of abdominal segments always more or less 

 rufescent, stigma hardly paler basally, and the eyes internally 

 more deeply emarginate. It is verj' probably a good species, and 

 I have seen but one female referable to it from Kashmir, 

 5000-GOOO ft., May {Coh Narse). 



A very lucid account of tlie structure of this species, as illus- 

 trating that of the Ichneumon id.i; in general, is given by 

 Westwood (Introd. Mod.Classif. ii, p. 137 ; ii, p. 140) and it is well- 

 figured by \-A\i A'ollenlioven (Pinac. pi. ix, lig. 1). The Oricnial 



