EPIURUS. — EPHIALTES. 177 



4 millim. Legs mainly black; coxae obsoletely punctate and sparsely 

 white-pilose. Winr/s hyaline, with their base subfulvescent; stigma 

 and nervures black. 



Length 13 millim. 



Assam : Khasi Hills {Rotliney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



Fig. 40. — Epiurits crclnis, Cam. 



Cameron differentiates this species from all the other forms 

 ascribed by him to the genus Pimpla in his 1899 paper, by its 

 having the " body and legs entirely black ; " but in his diagnosis 

 we find '■ tibiis tarsisque anticis fiavotestaceis," and later also 

 " the middle knees are testaceous." 



Genus EPHIALTES, Schr. 

 Ephialtes, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii, 1802, p. 316. 



Gexotype, Ichneumeii manifestutor, L. 



A genus of strongly linear and parallel-sided insects, with the 

 ovipositor never shorter than the length of the body. Head 

 shortly transverse, a little buccate and hardlj" narrowed behind 

 the oval and scarcely emargiiiate eyes ; face deplanate, often 

 pilose and not longer than broad ; clypeus short and transverse, 

 somewhat arcuately separated, with the apical margin centrally 

 deflexed and excised, and the sides prominent ; mandibles some- 

 what broad, only a little broader basally and often striate, witli 

 the apical teeth sbort and sut)equal in length. Antennae filiform 

 and somewhat slender; scape deeply excised externally; flagellum 

 pilose, with the basal joints cylindrical. Thorax convex and sub- 

 cylindrical ; mesonotum nitidiilous, with distinct notauli : latei-al 

 sulci deeply impressed and the sternauli wanting; metathorax 

 scabrous or rugulose, with the pleura) smootlier, somewhat higher 



