EX.VCRODUS. — MOXOBLASTUS. 33 1 



indeterminately, black ; basal segment fully thrice as long as 

 apically broad, subpetiolate and laterally strongly margined 

 beyond its subcentral spiracles ; remaining segments subquadrate ; 

 valvuke exserted and not large. Legs entirely fulvous, with^the 

 hind ones rufescent and their tibia? and tarsi infuscate. Wings 

 not narrow, radix and tegula? pale testaceous, stigma ferruginous, 

 areolet wanting, though with a suggestion of a nervure at the 



Fig. QS.—E.c(icrodiis2)0]}idaiis, Mori. 



external half of its submarginal nervure, Avhich is short; basal 

 nervure continuous ; nervcUus antefurcal and strongly intercepted 

 at its lower third. 



Length 6 millim. 



Bengal : Pusa, xi. OG. 



Type in the Pusa collection. 



I have seen only the type of this species, which was bred from 

 the Selandriid Sawfly, Athalia proxirna. King. 



Genus MONOBLASTUS, Htg. 



Munohlasfns, Hartig, Wiegm. Archiv. 1837, p. loo. 



Cyphanza, Cameron, Jouru. liombay Nat. Hist. See. 1909, p. 723. 



Gexotype, Ichneumon ncusirice, Schr. 



Head transverse and generally tumidulous. w ith the face liardly 

 prominent ; clypeus not discrete, its lateral fovea^ distinct, with 

 no tufts of pilosity; mandibles with two subequal apical teeth. 

 Antennae filiform, about the length of the body and not centrally 

 dilated ; basal flagellar joint longer than the second. Thorax 

 stout ; metathorax short, with the upper areip distinct. Abdomen 

 subsessile, oblong-snbfusiform ; first segment bicarinate and 

 <n'aduallv a little constricted basally ; ovipositor not entirely 

 concealed, though short and hardly exserted. Legs of normal 

 length ; hind tibise bicalcarate ; tarsi not incrassatc, with the 



