ALLOPLASTA. 22.'>- 



claws soiuewliat lar^ije, nofc pectinate, of c? obsoletely and of 5 

 distinctly ciliate beneath. Areolet subrhomboidal, sessile or 

 shortly petiolate ; upper basal emitted from median nervure very 

 distinctly before the lower basal ; internal cubital sharply ano-led 

 centrally, with the nervelet oi'ten distinct ; first recurrent nervure 

 of lower wings intercepted at or a little below the centre. 



liange. Europe, Simla. 



In my ' Ichneumons of Britain ' (iii. 1908, p. 22G) I suggested that 

 Meniscus murinvs, Grav., and M. plantarivs, Grav., were probablv 

 of a distinct genus from the remainder of the species there tabu- 

 lated, on account of their finely setiferous and not pectinate claw s 

 and of their very distinct economy ; but I refrained from employing 

 riirster's inadequate and typeless genus, until further elucidated. 

 This had, however, been already done by Cameron, without either 

 his knowledge or mine (I had not looked up Indian references for 

 British insects and he had little knowledge of I'iirster's o-enein, 

 nor apparently of the abundant Eui'opean Meniscus murimis); 

 consequently, I think, one is justified in now employing ^??oj5Zr/.s7« 

 in nomenclature, with type Lissonota murhut, (-irrav., Ichn. Eur. 

 iii, p. 99 { = Tricliopimpla, Cam.; type, T, jiHosa). Ashmead's 

 characters for this genus are entirely valueless. It differs little 

 fi'om the rare Arenetm, Holmg., in the pilosity of the head and 

 thorax, but distinctly in that of its typically nitidulous basa 

 abdominal segment, and in its evenly punctate metathorax, which 

 in Arenetra is distinctly rugose throughout and not punctate ; 

 from Menisc%is it is distinguished by the structure of the claws. 



154. Alloplasta pilosa. Cam. 



Tnchopimpla pilosa, Cameron,* Zeits. Ilym.-Dip. 1903, p. 303 (9). 



2 . An entirely black species, Avith elongate pilosity, and tlie 

 legs alone rufescent. Head stout, with the frons closel^-^ punctate 



and in the centre transversely 

 and indistinctly strigose; vertex 

 closely punctate, more sparselv 

 laterally ; face closely and ru- 

 gosely punctate, with the cly- 

 peus less closely and strongly 

 and more nitidulous; centre of 

 inner orbits narrowly, and the 

 apical third of clypeus, rules- 

 cent ; mandibles and ])ahn 

 black, with the apical teeth 

 ferruginous. Thorax closciv 

 and uniformly punctate on llie 

 disc, and a little more stronglv 

 on the metatliorax ; melanoluiii 

 more coarsely punctate apically, and with distinct though 

 short traces of a transverse costa at its apical angles ; pleuiic 



Fig. 53. — Alloplasta pilosa, Cam. 



