174 ICHNEUMONIDy"E. 



though weak ; nietapleui'03 very nnicli more strongly punctate 

 than the niesopleura) ; spiracles small and subcircuhir. Scutellum 

 hardly convex, finely punctate throughout and im maculate. 

 Ahdoinoi elongate-ovate and narrower in 6 , closely and distinctly 

 punctate, witii the apices of tlie first six segments roundly 

 elevated, and the third to sixth laterally subtuberoulate ; basal 

 segment subcjuadrate, punctate througliout, with somewhat strong 

 carina? a little converging at the apex; venter testaceous and 

 strongly plicate on its basal halt; terebra shorter than half the 

 abdomen (-> millim.), with the pilose valvula? black and the spicula 

 stramineous, apicfdly acuminate and red. Ler/s fulvous, with the 

 antei-ior pairs ]niler ; hind tibicB stramineous, with their apices 

 broadly, and a dot before the base above, black ; hind tarsi except 

 at extreme base, and apices of their femora obsoletely, nigrescent : 

 all the claws small, curved and basally strongly lobate. Wim/s 

 hyaline and not broad ; costa and nervures piceous, stigma dark 

 ferruginous, radix and tegulie flavescent ; areolet triangular, emit- 

 ting the recurrent nervure from its apical third ; nervellus straight, 

 intercepting the slightly postfurcal recurrent nervure distinctly 

 a little above its centre. 



Length 10-12 millim. 



Assam ( W. F. Badi/Je;/). 



Tjipe in the British Museum. 



This species is allied to E. gramineUa', Holmg., though the 

 hind coxae are but obsoletely punctate, and to E. rohiistus, Mori., 

 from Avhich. the colour of the hind tibite will distinguish it ; it 

 appears very distinct from E. creh^is iu the confoi'mation of the 

 frons and coloration of the legs. I have drawn the above descrip- 

 tion from two pairs. 



117. Epiunis nursei, Cam. 



(?) Pimpla punctata, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xix, p. 21:26 ( $ ). 

 P. nursei, Cameron, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii, 1906^ 

 p.283($). 



d' $ . A black species with the legs, except anterior coxae, red, 

 and the terebra longer than the abdomen. Head posteriorly 

 buccate and as broad as the eyes ; occiput bordered, vertex 

 glabrous with scattered punctures ; frons evenly and not vei*y 

 closely punctate, with the scrobes densely transaciculate and of 

 normal size ; face uitidulous, \\'ith sparse lai-ge punctures and fine 

 white ])ubescence; epistoma convex; clypeus truncately discrete 

 basally, rugulose, with the apex emarginate and rafescent ; man- 

 dibles subparallel-sided, centrally impressed, black, with the apical 

 teeth small and of equal length ; ligula and apex of pal])i rufescent, 

 cheeks not elongate nor eyes emarginate. Antenna' filiform, not 

 very slender nor longer than half the body, black, with the apices 

 rufescent and flagellar joints somewhat short. 27tom.r immaculate 

 and shining, coarsely and somewhat deeply punctate discally, more 



