264 ICHNEUMONID.«. 



Head black with the clypeus testaceous, the inaiulibles (except 

 apically) and palpi flavous ; face strongly and evenly punctate, 

 with dense long white pilosity ; frons and vertex su])erficially punc- 

 tate, \\ith denfse long brown 

 pilosity, longer behind ocelli, 

 which are preceded by a tri- 

 angular ini])re.'<sion. Antennce 

 stout and t'ulvescent ; scape 

 pilose, and flavescent beneath; 

 tiagelluni densely black pubes- 

 cent, becoming slightly in- 

 crassate apically. Thorax with 

 propleurse nitidulous, black and 

 broadly rufescent above ; nieso- 

 notuui nitidulous and with short 

 Fig. m.—Srallama trilineaia, Cam. ^.j^i^e ij^irs, ferruginous, with 



a broad central longitudinal 

 stripe and the apices of the lateral lobes black ; mesopleura^ ob- 

 scurely punctate, with long white pilosity, black, with a central 

 red fascia ; inetanotuni evenly convex throughout, smooth and 

 nitidulous, with long Avhite hairs, basally blackish and deeply 

 impressed in Ihe centre of both base and apex. Scutellum 

 glabrous and nitidulous, with dense and long infuscate pilosity, 

 basally black and deeply impressed. Abdomen above and below 

 fulvescent, with the very smooth and shining first segment 

 (exce])t apically), the second entirely, the third (except laterally), 

 and more or less of tlie remainder, black. Lec/s short and stout, 

 with the basally black femora incrassate ; the tibiae and tai'si 

 stout, with the anterior ilavescent, hind ones dark red and the 

 posterior apically black ; calcaria rufescent, hind tarsi and apices 

 of their claws black. Wiyigs more or less distinctly fulvescent- 

 hyaline, ^^•ith the costa and nervures paler, and the stigma 

 red. 



Length 11-12 millim. 



The extent of nigrescence varies throughout, as does the den sit}' 

 of alar fulvescence. 



Assam : Khasi Hills {G. A. J. Rothneij). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



I have seen an insect in the British IMuseum labelled " Scallama 

 fort{2:>es, Cam.; type; Khasia." The latter 1 presume to be a 

 manuscript name, since I can find no mention of it in the literature ; 

 the specimen agrees with the above description fairly accurately. 



185. Scallama crassipes, Cain. 



Scallama crassipes, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899, p. '2\9 {<S)- 



(5 . Larger than the preceding, with the thorax immaculate 

 black and the areolet uanting. Head black ; the strongly punctate 

 face with dense and elongate fulvous, occiput with shorter black, 

 pilosity. Antennce densely and very shortly pilose, rufescent, 



