ITOPLECTIS. 171 



of this species (Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond. 1902, p. 728); and a full 

 list of its hosts will be found in luy Ichneumons of Britain (iii, 

 p. lOG), which goes to show that its parasitism is distributed 

 among the Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and pliytojihagous llymeno- 

 ptera, though in the case of Chapman's Spanish individuahs it 

 appears to have been hyperparasitic through an Opliionid Ich- 

 neumon upon one of the Zyg-T^nim:. A small female in tlie 

 British Musuem was bred at Simla, on 7tli July 1901, by Stebbing 

 from Eucosma stebhinrji, AV'lsm. 



114. Itoplectis orientalis, nom. nov. 



Fimpla vidua, Camerou {)u'c Walsh), Manch. Mem. 1809, p. 180 



S . A black species with dense wliite pubescence, the legs 

 mainly red and the hind tibiae white-banded. " Face and clypeus 

 thickly covered with long, white liair ; the front and vertex 

 shining, impunctate, almost glabrous ; the maxillary palpi are 

 white ; the labial fuscous. Antenna' black, the flagellum covered 

 with a white down ; the scape closely punctured, covered with 

 longish, pale hairs, Mesonotum shining, obscurely punctured, as 

 is also the scutellum ; but the sides below the latter are strougl}^ 

 punctured ; median segment [metathorax] coarsely, rugosely 

 punctured, except the base and the apex in the middle ; thickly 

 covered with longisb, fuscous hair; the lower part of the pro- 

 pleurse behind strongly longitudinally striated ; the mesopleurse 

 obscurely punctured, covered with longish, soft, white hair; the 

 metapleursB coarsely punctured, more closely and coarsely on the 

 lower part. Abdomen entirely black ; closely and coarsely punc- 

 tured ; the posterior segments with the puncturing weaker, and 

 densely covered with long, white pnibescence. All the coxge are 

 black, and thickly covered with white hair ; the trochanters are 

 black at the base ; the hinder tibia? and tarsi black, thickly covered 

 with white hair; near the base of the tibiae is a white band, which 

 extends to shortly beyond the middle ; the calcaria are white ; all 

 the femora, w ith the anterior tibia? and tarsi, red. IFmr/s hyaline, 

 with the stigma and nervures black ; areolet laterally subcoal- 

 escent above ; the recurrent nervure is received near the apical 

 third of the cellule. 



" Length 8 mm." 



Assam: Khasi Hills (BotJinc;/). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



The oft-repeated white ])ubescence reminds one of the genus 

 Sti/bops, but nothing is said of the metathoracic costcc, broad 

 stigma or apically acuminate face, and one nuist consequently 

 assume it to appertain to the subgenus JiO)>lectis, though the 

 conformation of the spiracles and claws is not indicated. 



