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areolet and apically reflexed ; nervellus emitted from the curved 

 and very strongly postf ureal first recurrent of hind wings very 

 sliglitly below its iunction with the median. 



Length 14 millim. 



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



Type 2 iu Col. Nurse's collection, 6 in the Oxford Museum. 



Genus BANCHUS, F. 



Banchiis, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. 1798, p. 209. 

 Cidap/mnis, Forster, A'erh. pr. Kheinl. xxv, 1868, p. 159. 



Genotype, Ichneumon volalatorius, L. 



Head shortly transverse, a little narrower thau the thorax and 

 constricted behind the subreniform and always internally emar- 

 ginate eyes ; clypeus subdiscrete and apically emarginate ; 

 mandibular teeth obtuse and unequal ; maxillary palpi with the 

 fourth joint of S often strongly dilated, of $ a little iucrassate. 

 Antennae somewhat slender, siibfiliform, with the scape deeply 

 excised; longer in d- Thorax convex; notauli elongate and, at 

 least posteriorly, entire ; metathorax short and scabrous with no 

 arete; apophyses stout and sometimes connected by a central 

 carina; spiracles linear. Scutellum triangular and apically 

 obtuse, gibbous or convex, often with a more or less acuminate 

 discal spine. Abdomen sessile or subsessile, smooth and nitidu- 

 lous, longer and usually narrower than the thorax, dorsally 

 convex and laterally compressed especially in the § ; basal 

 segment hardlv broader apically, slightly canaliculate, with the 

 lateral tubercle before the centre ; anus of J obtuse, with seg- 

 ments five to seven very short, of $ with segments five to eight 

 usually elougately exserted ; terebra not or hardly exserted. Legs 

 elongate and not unusually stout, their tarsal claws pectinate. 

 AV'ings some\^hat narrow, usually subfulvescent ; areolet ah\ays 

 entire, usually very large and irregularly subrhomboidal ; stigma 

 not small ; radial cell lanceolate with its lower side often much 

 curved. 



liange. India, Europe, Canada, United States, Brazil. 

 ^^'. A. Schulz has examined the type of Banclms annulatus, T., 

 described from India, and states that it is a Pompilus, and con- 

 specific with P. (Episi/ron) multi_pktus, Smith. 



Table of Species. 



1 (2) Scutellum with no trace of apical 



spine armillatus, sp. n., p. 254. 



2 (1) Scutellum with a very distinct 



apical spine. 

 ;3 (4) Apical scutellar spine stout and 



straight Jlavomacidaius, Cam., p. 255. 



4 (o) Apical scutellar spine acuminate 



and deflexed nox, sp. n., p. 255. 



