270 ICHNETTMONID-'E. ' 



Wrou(jJiton) : Madras: Bangalore (Iiid. Mus.) ; Burma: Bhamo 

 (L. Fen). Hong-Kong (Brit. Mus.). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



This species is readily recognised by its rufescent head, thorax 

 and legs, as well as by the conspicuous apical alar mark; its 

 avithor remarks that the thorax is more elongate, especially in 

 front of the tegulae, than it is in the European species. 



Genus CULTRARIUS, Davis. 

 Caltrarius, Davis, Traus. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 197. 



Gexotipe, Jfeto2:>ius rileyi, Marlatt. 



Head somewhat small, much narrower and discally lower than 

 the thorax ; second joint of maxillary palpi uot strongly incrassate. 

 Antennae basally constricted and apically " strongly subelavate." 

 Thorax subspherical, on account of the broad meso- and short 

 pro- and meta-thoraces : metathorax depressed and flat " to fit 

 the basal segment of the abdomen; without distinct areolet." 

 Basal abdominal segment short and wedge-shaped, with the front 

 upper portion broad, deplanate and subcoucave ; ovipositor large, 

 geniculate, and longer than the body. 



Eange. United States, Sikkim. 



This genus is said to agree with Metopms in having a distinct 

 facial shield and the intermediate tibire unicalcarate ; but to diifer 

 in its small head, wedge-shaped and discally flat basal segment, and 

 in the large, elongate, and geniculate tenebra. The head is much 

 narrower than the thorax, the antennae apically incrassate, the 

 abdomen fusiform and apically attenuate, and the nervellus of the 

 hind wing geniculate above its centre. It was founded upon a 

 North American species from Kansas and Dakota. Cameron has 

 described three Indian males, wliich are quite unknown to me. 



Table of Species. 



1 (2) Wings entirely infumate ; abdomen with 



flavous iiiarknigs favobaltcatKs, Cam_^. 



2 (1) Wings only apically infumate ; abdomen [p. 270, 



■s\-ith red markings. 



3 (4) Areola elongate ; scutellum black piayweotinctus, Cam., 



4 (3) Areola transverse; scutellum with flavous [p. 271. 



markings areolatus, Cam., p. 272. 



190. Cultrariiis flavobalteatus, Cam. 



Ctiltrarius flavohaltcatuR, Cameron, Zeits, Hym.-Dip. 1903, p. 342 



(c?). 



c^ . A black species, with the abdomen banded with violaceous 



and flavous, and the wings infuscate. Head with clypeus flavoiis- 



margined and closely punctate, apically broadly rounded and 



depressed, laterally broadly margined and, like its base, flavous ; 



