240 iCH>'ErMo>'iD.T;. 



and tlie nicsonotiun (except large anterior bamote marks coalescing; 

 Mith a broad discal spot) black. Hind coxce internally black and 

 externally ferruginons below. Abdomen clear red, with apices oE 

 all the segments narrowly, and base and apex of the first some- 

 what broadly, flavous. Hind femora, tibije and tarsi fulvous 

 tl\roughout, their trochanters basally blackish. AVings as in 

 the last described species. 



Length 14 millim. 



Balucuistax : Quetta, vii. 02 {CoJ. Nurse). 



Tyj^e in Col. Nurse's collection. 



Var. apicipennis. Cum. 



5 . Difiers in nothing but the colour and rather smaller size. 

 The meso- and meta-thoraces are entirely black, with the callosities 

 below the radices and large triangular marks before them, flavous ; 

 the base and apex of the first abdominal segment are more 

 narrowly flavous, and the base of the three following segments is 

 centrally black. 



Lemjth 11 millim. 



Punjab : Simla, viii. 98 ( Col. Xttrse). 



Type in Col. Isurse's collection. 



So similar does this female appear to S. zanthorius that I shovdd 

 certainly have synonymised them as mere colour varieties, were 

 it not that the terebra is distinctly longer and the flagellum is 

 not compresso-dilated beyond its centre. 



Genus LAMPRONOTA, i/r/?.* 

 Laiiijjnmota, Ilalida}^, Ann. Nat. Hist, ii, 1839, p. 120. 

 Genotype, Ichneumon accvsator, F. 



Clypeus discrete and apically subtruncate ; frons convex and 

 subgiabrous. Autennre elongate, filiform and somewhat slender ; 

 flagellar joints not discrete, the first usually elongate, c? with 

 the fourth and either the third or fifth externally excised. 

 Thorax stout, gibbulous-cylindrical ; niesonotum anteriorly ele- 

 vated and perpendicular, notauli very deeply impressed ; meta- 

 thorncic areola coalescing with basal area, its longitudinal costse 

 sti'aight, parallel and entire frrm base to apex; lateral cosise 

 distinct ; petiolar area short ; spiracles oblong and transverse. 

 Abdomen sulisessile, evenly convex ; basal segment usually dull, 

 scabriculous and convex ; anus subcompressed and laterally clavate, 

 of 2 ^vith the venter apically cleft, the vahula? obtuse and the 

 terebra about the length of the abdomen. Hind legs distinctly a 



* The name Lampronoin was, as is truly staterl by Dalla Torre (Cat. Hym. 

 iii, p. 514), broiiglit Ibrwaid by Curtis in 1.^32 (Brit. Ent., fol. p. ')07), but. as 

 tlicve directly exjirrssed, purely as synonyii'ic with Lw^onota, Gnw. {IS'ld); 

 coiisequentlyHahday's later name must stand. 



