334 ICHNEUMONIDvi;, 



.scape; clypeus not discrete, apically rounded and deeply i'oveate 

 at the base on either side ; mandibles largely bidentate, with the 

 upper tooth longer and more acuminate than the lower. Meta- 

 thorax elongate, with no carina? and its spiracles elongate. 

 iScutellum roundly convex. Abdomen with the four basal seg- 

 ments distinctly longer than broad ; the basal elongate and not 

 much widened apically, with almost central spiracles ; terebral 

 valvulae strongly projecting, stout and straight. Legs elongate, 

 with apices of hind femora nearly extending to anus, their coxao 

 elongate and fully four times as long as broad ; posterior tibia' 

 bicalcarate ; tarsi spinose, with their claws closely and distinctly 

 pectinate. Wings with the areolet quadrate and somewhat large, 

 laterally coalesceut above, and emitting the straight and broadly 

 fenestrate second recurrent nervure from its centre; radial cell 

 narrow and elongate, nervelet distinct ; hind wing with nervures 

 extending to the apex, the lower longitudinal one originating near 

 the top. 



Bangc. Simla. 



Its author says this genus, the type of which is not in 

 Col. Xurse's collection, "belongs to the Ctenopelmini and comes 

 near to Ctenopehna." 



238. Icyona rufipes. Cam. 



Icyona rufjjes. Cameron, Zeits. Ilym.-Dip. 1903, p. 340 (d $ ). 



(5 2 ■ Il^ad black, with the lower half of the inner orbits 

 broadly, the lower two-thirds of the sparsely punctate clypeus. 

 jind the cheeks (in c? ), flavous ; face apically rufescent ; frons and 

 vertex closely punctate ; palpi testaceous and mandibles tricoloured. 

 A7itennce black; of d with the scape flavescent, and flagellum 

 piceous, beneath. Pro- and mesothorax closely and uniformly 

 punctate ; metathorax much more strongly and rugosely punctate, 

 with dense short white pubescence. IScutellum closely and uni- 

 formly punctate, with its apex glabrous, nitidulous and testaceous. 

 Abdomen shining and red, with the basal half of first segment 

 subflavescent. Legs red, with the coxae, base of trochantei-s above, 

 and a basal line on the anterior femora, black ; four apical joints 

 of hind tarsi flavous. Wings hyaline and iridescent, with the 

 stigma testaceous and the nervures blackish. 



Length 14 millim. 



Punjab: Simla {Col. Nurse). 



Type. Location unknown. 



I have not seen this species. 



