272 ICHNEUMONID.^. 



tate ; basal segment centrally elevated and bicarinate ; second and 

 iit'tli segments obsoletely, tbird and fourtti more distinctly, carinate 

 discally ; lateral marks on first and fourtli segments, a])ices of second 

 and third, ferruginous : anus distinctly purplisli and with short 

 black hairs. Lfrfs black ; anterior tibife and tarsi below, and the 

 hind femora, red ; calcaria white, with the front ones testaceous. 

 Wings hyaline and strongly iridescent, with the radial cell and 

 apical half of the external cubital inf umate ; ai'eolet large, emitting 

 the second recurrent nervure from its centre, with its sides not 

 coalescent above. 



Length 14 millim. 



SiKKiM : Takvar, Darjiling, 4000 ft. {Col. Bingliam). 



1;)2. Cultrarius areolatus, Cam. 



Cultrariiis areolatus, Cameron, Aun. Nat. Hist, xix, 1907, p. 177 



5 . A black species, the head and scutellum with flavous 

 markings, and the wings apically infumate. 

 Length 10 millim. 



SiKKIM, 



This species is said by its author to resemble C. purpureotinctus 

 so closely as to need no detailed description. Therefrom it may at 

 once be known by the metanotal areola not being longer than broad, 

 gently and evenly rounded to the subcircular and not truncate apex ; 

 the lateral arese not punctate; the scutellum partly flavous and 

 centi'ally deeply sulcate ; tlie petiolar carinae apically curved and coa- 

 lescent, not parallel ; the areolet shortly petiolate above and the hind 

 femora black. Cameron adds (loc. cit. p. 178) that " the coloration 

 is the same otherwise, except that the purple tint on the abdomen 

 commences on the second segment, that the scutellar keels are 

 yellow, and that the lines on the second to fifth abdominal seg- 

 ments are narrower, of more uniform thickness, and more yellowisli 

 in colour. The puncturation is pretty much the same ; on the 

 second segment of the abdomen it is stronger and more iri-egular, 

 that segment, too, being shorter compared with the width ; the 

 keels on the second to fourtli segments are narrow, but distinct. 

 The calcaria are all whitish. The abdomen is shorter, too, com- 

 pared with the thorax." 



Tribe SPHINCTIDES. 



race deplanate ; antennae stout and filiform. Metathorax 

 short, subvertical, with the areola obsolete or strongly transverse, 

 and the petiolar area very lai'ge ; spiracles minute and circular. 

 Scutellum large, deplanate, strongly margined and sometimes 

 hardly separated from the raesonotum. Abdomen dull and 

 strongly punctate, elongately petiolate with prominent spiracles 

 in centre of basal segment ; second segment not discally carinate. 

 Legs slender ; hind tibife uuicalcarate, the intermediate bicalcarate. 

 Areolet Bessile, triangular and not large, its inner nervure oblique 



