EURTPKOCTUS. 32:5 



23i'. Euryproctus spinipes, Cam. 



Fuvai/a spinijjes, Cainerou,* Ann. Nat. Hist, xx, ]!)07, p. 21 ($). 



2 . A black species, with tlie abdomen ceutrally red, and the 

 antennae and hind tarsi pale-banded. 



Length 10 inillira. 



PuxJAU: Simla, viii. 98 (CoZ. Nurse). 



Tjipe in Col. Nurse's collection. 



This species so exactly resembles the last in every respect, 

 except that of colour, that I am in great doubt as to its right to 

 specific rank ; especially is tliis the case since the structure in 

 both is, in spite of their author's assertion to the contrary, entirely 

 similar. E. S2)inij)es is to be recognised solely by having the head 

 black, with only a spot at the juxta-antennal orbits fiavous and 

 the labrum ferruginous; the thorax immaculate black; the abdo- 

 men black, Avith segments two to four entirely, but the first not 

 at all, red ; the anterior legs testaceous, with the coxae and 

 trochanters entirely, the front femora above toA^ards the base and 

 the intermediate (except at their extreme apices) black ; the radix 

 and tegulae stramineous, with the latter basally blackish. Both 

 species were founded on single specimens. 



Genus DYSPETES, Forst. 

 Dyspetes, Forster, Verb. pr. Rheinl. 1868, p. 201. 



Genotype, Ichneumon j)>'ffiro(jator, L. 



Body black and pubescent. Face subdeplanate, centrally and 

 apically elevated ; clypeus strongly discrete and apically very 

 broadly rounded ; mandibular teeth of equal length ; eyes oblong 

 and cheeks not short ; vertex angularly excised ceutrally. Meta- 

 thoracic areae distinct, but not complete ; the spiracles circular 

 and not large. Abdomen with the cariuae of the hardly petiolate 

 basal segment elongate but obsolete, audits subprominent spiracles 

 slightly before the centre ; second segment with broad and deeply 

 impressed thyridii, third subimpressed basally on either side ; 

 hypopygium large and extending almost beyond the pvgidium ; 

 terebra very slightly exserted. Tarsal claws stout and simple. 

 Areolet entire and tetragonal, transverse, large and subsessile. 



llcuKje. Palaearctic Region. 



Thomson first employed Dyspctes (as Di/.<ipetus) in 1883 (Opusc. 

 Ent. ix, pp. 895 et 899) for the reception of the present species, 

 but he placed it in the Tkypiionini, from the i-emainder-of which 

 he distinguished it by its complete areolet, stout and simple claws, 

 and centrally angulated vertex. Ashmead is certainly in error in 

 placing Di/spetes, as he does (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1900, p. 56), 

 in the Pimplin.e and allying it witli Gli/pta on account of the 

 impressions of its second and third abdominal segments, which 



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