322 



lOHNEUMONID.i:. 



roughly alutaceous ,iik1 dull, with a suhhainate flavous mark on 

 either side before the short but deeply iinpi-essed notauli ; meta- 

 thorax shagreeued and more nitidulous, hut slightly convex ; 

 petiolar area strongly carinate throughout and entire ; areola ill- 

 defined, siibpyriform, longer than broad and confluent with the 

 triangular basal area ; lateral carinae somewhat strong, both above 

 and below the semicircular spiracles. Scutdlum alutaceously 



punctate and dull, not distinctly 

 convex : frenum strigose. Abdo- 

 men obsoletely punctate, shining, 

 with short piceous hairs and broad- 

 est behind the centre ; black, with 

 the third and fourth segments, the 

 apex of the second broadly, and of 

 the first very narrowly, red ; basal 

 segment nearly thrice as long as 

 apically broad, with the petiole 

 parallel-sided, the spiracles dis- 

 tinct and subcentral, and the post- 

 petiole gradually dilated ; hypo- 

 pygium covering the base of the 

 shortly exserted terebra. LegseXon- 

 gate ; anterior pairs testaceous, 

 with the coxae and trochanters, 

 except their flavescent apices, 

 black ; hind legs black, with the basal two-thirds of the externally 

 spinnlose tibiae, and basal half of first tarsal joint, ferruginous ; 

 hind tarsi with joints two to four stramineous. Wings ample 

 •and hyaline ; radix and tegulae stramineous, the narrow stigma 

 black and the nervures piceous ; areolet not small, irregularly 

 oblique, subpetiolate and well-defined ; nervellus subopposite and 

 intercepted slightly below its centre. 

 Length 10 miUim. 



PuKJAB : Simla, ix. 98 {Col. Nurse). 

 Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



This species very closely resembles E. albipes, Holmg., of which 

 Thomson considers the same author's E. tuherculahis to be the $ , 

 but his description differs from that of Holmgren, who terms the 

 stigma of E. (dbipes infuscate and of E. tuherculatus stramineous, 

 with the head of the latter more constricted posteriorly, while 

 Thomson says the stigma and nervures are pale in both sexes. 

 tJnfortunately I have no personal acquaintance with these insects, 

 ■which are mentioned by no other authors and have hitherto been 

 met with only in Scandinavia, and our refei'euces are too scant}^ 

 to allow me to synonymise them with any degree of certainty. 

 My descriptioa has been drawn from the typo specimen. 



Pig. 88. 

 Emyproctus animlicornis, Caui. 



