288 



ICHXEUMOXID.T. 



the anus, basallj nigrescent or, especially in d. pale beneatli. 

 TJiorax discally shining and nearly smooth throughout, black, with 



no pale humeral marks; riotauli 

 indicated, pleura' smooth ; basal 

 metanotal area distinct and 

 subquadrate ; petiolar area 

 large, subovate and nitidulous. 

 Heutellum black and subconvex. 

 Abdomen black, with segments 

 three, four, and apex of second 

 red, fifth rarely red ; basal seg- 

 ment aciculate, twice as long as 

 broad, parallel-sided, with the 

 spiracles not very ])rominent ; 

 second basally a little con- 

 stricted and substriate between 

 the distinct and subpellucid 

 thyridii ; anus of § by no 

 means strongly compressed. 

 Legs slender and fulvous, u ith 

 all the trochanters and the an- 

 terior coxee pale testaceous or, 

 in S • flavoiis ; hind tarsi of c? subinfuscate. Wings with tegulae 

 flavous ; stigma pale and apically darker, or in S infuscate and 

 basally paler ; nervellus opposite and intercepted below^ its centre. 

 The S abdomen is rarely black-marked centrally. 

 Lenqth 4-6 mi Him. 



Sikkim: Darjihng, GOOO ft., ix. 08 {E. Drunetti—lm\. Mus.)- 

 Europe. 



Type in the Breslan Museum. 



This is a very abundant species in Western Europe from Lapland 

 to Hungary. It is captured by sweeping throughout the summer, 

 and is occasionally seen upon umbelliferous flowers; Holmgren 

 once bred it from an unkiiown species of Sgrphris fly in Sweden. 

 Brunetti took a single rather dark male by sweeinng grass and 

 low herbage at Dai'iiling. 



Fig. 7o. — Proiiictlnts mtlcator. Gray." 



205. Promethus pulchellus, Holmg. 



Bassus 8idcatur, var. 1 J , vars. 3 et 4 J 5 , Gravenhorst, Iclin. Eur. 



iii, 1829, p. 3i>l. 

 Bassus festiviis, vars. 2 et 3, Gravenhorst, op. cif. p. 316 (c? 5 ). 

 Bassus jmlcheUus, Holmgren (nee Desv.), Sv. Ak. Handl 1855^ 



p. 300 iS 9)\ Brischke, Schr. Nat. f^es. Uanz. 1878, p. 113. 

 ProonetJnts pvhJiellus, Thomson, Opusc. Knt. xiv, 1890, p. 1483; 



Mi.rley, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1905, p. 429 ( J $ )• 

 Sussaha bicarinuta, Cameron,* Joiirn. Bombay Nai. Hist. feoc. 1909, 



p. 728 (5). 



A shining and punctulate, mainly black species. Head broad, 



