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ICIINEUMONID.E. 



Fig. 63. — Banchu siio.v, Mori. 



emarginate eyes ; bright flavous, witti only tlie occiput, vertex, 

 scrobes, a narrow longitudinal facial line and a spot at base 



of maiidil)les, black ; face 

 evenly punctate throughout, 

 clypeus obsoletely discrete 

 and apically sinuate. An- 

 teniue not slender, apically 

 strongly attenuate, a little 

 shorter than body, black, with 

 the scape and the basnl flagel- 

 lar joint (moi'e obscurely) 

 tlavous beneath. Thorax 

 somewhat dull, closely and 

 finely punctate ; mesonotum 

 with hamate huu)eral lines, 

 most of prothorax, large and 

 small marks on meso- and 

 ineta-pleurse, the frenum, and 

 the entire petiolar area, fla\'- 

 ous; metathorax scabriculons, 

 with only irregular costal at 

 base of petiolar area ; spiracles 

 linear. Scutellum and postscutellum flavous, the former with a 

 deflexed and acuminate black spine, nearly as long as its total 

 length. Abdomen nitidulous, closely but obsoletely punctate, 

 black, with the apices of all the dorsal and ventral segments 

 broadly rufesceut-flavous ; basal segment sublinear, more than 

 twice as long as apicallj broad, with the prominent spiracles 

 distinctly before its centre ; ventral valvulse rufescent and 

 subconcealed. Le(/s : anterior pairs flavous, with the tibia) and 

 tarsi rufescent, the femora \\ith a black line below, the basal joint 

 of front tarsi distinctly sinuate and pectinate, and its calcar 

 equally curved ; hind legs black, with the coxic and extreme apex 

 of trochanters with flavous marks, the femora entirely above and 

 their tibiae obscurely internally ferruginous ; calcariavery unequal 

 in length. Wings normal and subhyaline ; radix and tegula) 

 flavous, costa piceous and stigma ferruginous; areolet normal, 

 lower external angle of first discoidal cell acute ; nervellus curved 

 at its apex and intercepting the very strongly postf ureal recurrent 

 iiervure very slightly below its junction with the median. 

 Length 11 millim. 



AssA]\r : Shillong, Khasi Hills, 6000 ft., on flowers of Spiram, 

 x. 03 (Bowland Tuvner). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species has much the facies of the common Paltearctic 

 B. pictus^Y.^ hut is more profusely decorated, and the scutellar 

 spine somewhat relates it to Wesmael's subgenus Coryuephanus. 

 Described from a single male. 



