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ICHNEUMOXlIi.!', 



Genus SETICORNUTA, gen. no\ . 



Genotype, S. alUcalcar, Mori. 



Head iiaiTOwer than thorax and strongly constricted posteriorly ;. 

 frons and vertex obsoletely punctate and shining ; lace strongly 

 protuberant, uniformly coarsely punctate and continuous with the 

 hardly smoother clypeus ; mandibles parallel-sided and longi- 

 tudinally striate ; eyes emarginate }iext tlie scrobes. Antennaj 

 but little longer than halt the body; scape strongly punctate and 

 very little excised ; flagellum peculiarly setiform and basally stout, 

 consisting of some forty-live very strongly transverse joints, of 

 which the apical are carinate beneath. Thorax deplanate, niti- 

 dulous and sparsely pilose ; notauli superficial, though extending 

 to the di.-c ; mesopleura) convex ; metanotum strongly carinate at 

 the apex and equally strongly bicarinate on the disc, rendering the 

 quite circular areola and rather longer basal area conspicuous ; 

 costul^ wanting; spiracles elongate and occupying the whole space 

 between the two lateral carinEC. Scutellum strongly deplanate, 

 sparsely punctate and bordered only at its base. Abdomen convex ; 

 subparallel-sided and a little longer than the head and thorax, niti- 

 dulous and finely pubescent ; first segment short, and centrally 

 glabrovs beyond the strongl}' bicarinate base, with basal spiracles y 

 thyridii wanting ; A^enter not concave ; terebra hardly visible. 

 Legs, and especially femora, short and stout, the hind tarsi 

 extending to but slightly beyond the anus; calcaria unequal; 

 claws small, curved, and not extending beyond the bi'oad pulvilli. 

 Wings ample, but not broad ; areolet entire, small and periolate, 

 emitting the recurrent nervure from its apex ; basal nervure con- 

 tinuous ; nervellus antefurcal and geniculate at its lower third. 



Range. Burma and Ceylon. 



SomeAvhat resembling Jlyperacnms, but unique m its flagellar 

 conformation. 



223. Seticornuta alhicalcar, sj) 



5 . A shining black species 



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Fig. 83. 

 ticornuta alhicolcar, Mori. 



recumbent white hairs,. 

 rendering the body 

 dull and lending it a. 

 kind of bloom. Scape 

 entirely, the ten basal 

 flagellar joints abruptly, 

 the tegulte, the front 

 femora, tibia) and their 

 tarsi, bright fulvous ; 

 hind legs slightly badi- 

 ous ; all the calcaria 

 white ; front a\ ings 

 densely iufumate from 

 the basal nervure, and 

 the hind ones slightly 

 towards their apices. 

 Lenrjili 13^ millim. 



