180 



ICHXEUMOXIDiE. 



centre, aiul occiput more broadly above, black ; face obsoletely 

 ])unctate. with elongate pale pilosity and a small black central 

 •spot ; cly])eus subglabrous and basally sulcata transversely; man- 

 dibles apically broadly black ; palpi stramineous. Antenna' nigres- 

 cent ; scape' closely punctate and black, with elongate pale 

 pilosity anil its apex ilavous ; flagellum basally piceous, with dense 

 and obsolete pubescence. Thorax flavous ; mesonotuin glabrous 

 and nitiduloiis, with a large black mark on each of the deplanate 

 and but indistinctly discrete lobes ; pro- and meso-pleura^ black- 

 marked ; metathorax entirely glabrous and impunctate, with its 

 apex black-marked and no distinct basal impression ; metapleurce 

 entirely glabrous below, closely and strongly punctate above. 

 /Scnie7Z»ni apically, and the postscutellum, black. Ahdomen strongly 

 punctate, with the anus smoother and the basal fovea glabrous ; 

 first segment black-lmed throughout ; second to seventh centrally 



Fig. 41. — Ephialfes nigromaculatiis, Cam. 



black-lined, with the second to fifth bearing also smaller lateral 

 black marks; terebra as long as the body, with the valvular black 

 and densely infuscate-pilose. Legs uitidulous, stout and densely 

 white-pilose, with the apices of the posterior trochanters and the 

 base of the hind tibiae black ; hind tarsi nigrescent. Wings clear 

 hyaline with the nervnres and stigma deep black ; areolet oblique, 

 and triangular above, emitting the recurrent nervure from its 

 apical third. 



Length 13-14 millim. 



Assam : Khasi Hills (Rothney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



122. Ephialtes lachesis, sp. n. 



J 2 . A dull and linear species, with the abdomen three times 

 as long as the head and tnorax ; black, with the ligiila, palj)i. 



