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ICHNEUMONIUJE. 



Abdomen testaceous, subf iisiform and a little longer than the head 

 and thorax, pilose and uitidulous; basal segment slightly darker 



discally, bicarinate and subcon- 

 stricted basally ; terebra not ex- 

 serted, basally concealed by the 

 h3'po])ygium. Le(js not elongate 

 or incrassate, testaceous, with 

 the claws and the apices of all 

 the posterior tibiae and tarsal 

 joints black ; hind tibia? sub- 

 sinuate, witli their calcaria pale. 

 Wings ample and somewhat in- 

 funiate throughout ; radix and 

 tegulae testaceous, preceded by 

 a black dot ; costa, stigma and 

 costal base of hind wings black- 

 ish ; basal nervure curved above 

 and continuous through the median ; nervelet wanting ; areolet 

 distinct and irregularly oblique, petiolate and emitting the broadly 

 fenestrate second recurrent almost from its apex ; nervellus of 

 hind wings intercepted almost at its lower angle. 

 Lenr/tJi 7 millim. 



Punjab : fSimla, viii. 98 (Col. Nurse). 

 Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 

 Described from tlie type specitnen. 



Fig. 91. 

 Labrossyta nigriccps, Cam. 



Genus MESOLEIUS, Hohnrj. 



Mesoleius, Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Ilandl. 1854, p. 62, et op. cit. 1855, 

 p. 130. 



Geis^otype, Tryplion aulicus, Grav. 



Head transverse and not buccate, nor posteriorly dilated, with 

 the vertex emarginate ; clypeus not elevated, usually distinctly 

 discrete, apically truncate or emarginate, rarely rounded ; man- 

 dibles Avith two subequal apical teeth ; labrum hardl}'^ exserted. 

 Antennae setaceous and often longer than the body, with the 

 scape ovate ; basal flagellar joint usunlly half as long again as the 

 second. Thorax with the notauli usually very distinct ; metanotal 

 areola sometimes obsolete or wanting, though generally entire ; 

 petiolar area nearly always distinct and entire. Scutellum sub- 

 convex. Abdomen sessile or subsessile, oblong OA'ate or elongate 

 fusiform, and in $ often apically subcompressed ; first segment 

 gradually constricted basally, with discal sulcus not very distinct, 

 and but shortly bicarinate a little beyond the antecentral spiracles ; 

 terebra straight. Legs slender, with the hind femora elongate 

 and the tarsal claws not pectinate. Wings subample, with the 

 areolet, in the restricted genus, entirely wanting. 



Hcmr/e. Palaearctic and Nearctic liegions. 



