250 ICHIs'ETJMONID.'E. 



as the second. Thorax stout and black, with the mcsonotiun 

 irregidarly and obsoletely punctate, subglabrous ; nietathonix with 

 no costae, basally impressed iu the centre ; petiolar area short and 

 subconcave, spiracles linear. iScidelhcm black, a little convex, \vith 

 distinct punctures. Abdomen glabrous, nitidulous, red, with the 

 first segment basally and anus from apex of fourth black ; basal 

 segment but slightly longer than apically broad, discally impressed 

 in the ceuti'e, impunctate, and gradually dilated throughout; 

 terebra stout aud black, somewhat shorter than the basal segment. 

 Lajs elongate and red, with all the coxae, the anterior trochanters, 

 hind ones basally, their tarsi, and basal half of their externally 

 spinose tibia3, black ; hind calcaria strongly unequal. Whujs 

 obscurely siliceous, especially beyond the centre ; radix and tegula) 

 ochreous, costa and nervures infuscate, stigma pale fulvous ; areo- 

 let rhomboidal, subpetiolate, not higher than broad and emitting 

 the strongly sinuate and broadly bifenestrate recurrent nervure 

 from its centre ; radius distinctly curved above the areolet ; 

 internal cubital broadly pellucid, with the nervelet elongate ; 

 uervellus emitted from the curved and vei'y strongly postfurcal 

 first recurrent nervure of hind Avings very slightly below its 

 junction with the median. 



Length 11 millim. 



Ball'Chistax : Quetta, v. 03 {Col. Nurse). 



Tijj^e iu Col. jVurse's collection. 



This species resembles E. loivigator, Vill., in its general con- 

 foi'mation and colour, but the antennae are much longer and the 

 petiolar area ill-defined ; in size, antennal conformation, the 

 structure of the legs and wings, it exacth^ agrees with E. for- 

 nicator, E., of which it may be a variety, though lacking the 

 metanotal costae. 



Col. jS'urse has kindly allowed me to draw the above description 

 from the unique type. 



176. Exetastes fornicator, F. 



Ichneumon fornicator , Fabricius, Sp. Ins. i, p. 482 { $ ). 



Banchui fornicator, Fabricius, Piez. 1804, p. 827 (?). 



Exetastes fornicator, Graveuborst, Iclm. Eur. iii, 1829, p. 404 ; 

 Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Haudl. 1858, no. 8, p. 150; Volleulioveu, 

 Piiiac. pi. xvii, fio-. 2 ; Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xxii, 1897, p. 2415 



(d$). 

 Tryphon fornicator, Zetterstedt, Ins. l^app, 1840, p. 38G. 



d $ . A large, stout, black species, with often clouded wings 

 and elongate unicolorous antennae. Head somewhat broad behind 

 the eyes, with fidvescent pilosity ; frons very slightly impressed 

 and punctate ; face fiat and distinctly punctate ; mouth produced, 

 with the apex of the shagreened clypeus defiexed throughout ; 

 mandibles subparallel-sided, with the teeth of equal length. An- 

 tennce filiform, apically attenuate, those of cT as long as the body, 



