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222. Hyperacmus crassicornis, Grav. 



Exochus crassicornis, Gvavenhorst, Ich. Ear, ii, 1829, p, 347 (9 ). 

 Hiipcracmus crassicornis, Tlolmgren, Sv. Ak. Ilaiul'l. 18oo, p. 322 



(,$); Urisclike, Schr. phya. iikon. Ges. Kiinig-sb. 1871, p. 101- 



Jinschke, Schr. Nat. Ges. Dauz. 1878, p. 108 ; Thomson, Dent! 



Ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 199 (c^ $). 

 Xothaima hicarinata, Cameron * Journ. liombav Nat Hist Soc 



1902, p. 428 (c^). ^ ■ ^'- 



J $ . A stro-jgly shilling black species, with the palpi pale, the 

 mouth, underside of antenna! and most of the legs castaneous. 



Head somewhat tumidulous, with 

 the vertex emarginate and the 

 strongly protuberant face smooth 

 or but sparsely puuctulate ; frons 

 somewhat eouve.x, punctulate,aiid 

 centrally canaliculate. Thorax 

 stout and deplanate; metathorax 

 scabriculous,withtwolongitudinal 

 discal cariiue, extending from base 

 to apex ; spiracles not small, 

 longer than broad but not paral- 

 lel-sided. ^cutdJuhi subglabrous 

 and nitidulous, immaculate. Ab- 

 domen black or sometimes mainly 

 badious, of 5 hardly and in j 

 distinctly longer than head and 

 - . , -, thorax ; basal segment laterally 



nearly straight, dorsally scabriculous, with weak basal caring 

 extending to the spiracles, which are a little before the centre 

 and not prominent; remaining segments stronglv shinin<^ Lens 

 piceous or castaneous, with the anterior pairs "paler, especial! v 

 m J ; all the cox« and the hind trochanters black. Winq^ 

 hyaline, with the teguUe, radius, and stigma piceous ; radial cell 

 somewhat narrow. 

 Lenrjth 7-9 millim. 



-a^'a l"''''- f.-'h ^2'-' ^"''''^ '' ^''^^^^ Pjiovinces : Mussoori, 

 /000 ft., VI. Oo(/^.i?;voie«i— Ind. Mus.). Europb 



Typ^vci theBreslau Museum; the type of Cameron's species 

 m tol. Js urse s collection. ^ 



An examination of Cameron's type has enabled me unhesitatin-Iv 

 to synonymise it with Gravenhorst's species, which has been known 

 m Central Europe since 1829, though apparently rare both there 

 and m bweden. It was not recognised as British till 1882 • and 

 Its occurrence m the Himalayas indicates how little ^^■e yet know 

 of the distribution of the Ichneumonid^. 



Fiir. 82. 



Hupcracnms crassicornis, Grav. 



