SCOLOBATES. 339 



241. Scolobates testaceiis, sp. u. 



$ . A handsome, shining testaceous species, with somewhat 

 iuderiiiite black markings. Head but slightly narrowed behind the 

 prominent eves ; occiput, ocellar region externally, a mark be- 

 tween the scrobes extending to the face, and the apices of the 

 mandibles, black; cheeks flavescent. Aiiteimce stout and infuscate- 

 ferruginous, with all the joints short and the basal becoming 

 rufeseent beneath. Thorax not long, strongly iiitidulous through 

 out, testaceous, with marks on mesopleurte, mesonotum centrally 

 and above the radices, above hind frennm and in centre of meta- 

 notum, black ; mesosternuin flavescent ; notauli obsolete ; meta- 

 notum longitudinally convex on either side at base. Scutellum 

 convex, ruFo-llavescent. Abdomen strongly compressed from the 

 second segment, pilose and testaceous, with basal black marks on 

 all the segments, becoming lai'ger on the basal ones ; first seg- 

 ment strongl}' elongate and iudetinitely bicarinate at base ; spicula 

 eraarginate beneath the acuminate apex. Legs testaceous, with 

 only the small pulvilli and claws, and basal half of hind coxae, 

 black; hind legs elongate, but not conspicuously iucrassate. 

 Winrjs somewhat strongly and evenly infumate ; radix, tegulas 

 and stigma ferruginous ; uervellus intercepted below its centre. 



Lenrjtli 8 millira. 



UxiTED Protixces : Mussoori, 7000 ft., x. OG {H. M. Lefroij). 



Tijpe in the Pusa collection. 



242. Scolobates auriculatus, F. 



Ichneumon auriculatus, Fabricius, Piez. 1804, p. G9. 



Scolobates c7-as.'iitarsus, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. ii, 1829, p. 360; 



Stephens, lUus. Mandib. vii, 1835, p. 269; Fonscolouibe, Ann. 



Soc. Ent. France, 1849, p. 237 ; Kriechbauiner, Eut. Xachr. 



1877, p. 134 ; r. Stein, Eut. Nachr. 1880, p. 103 ( c? $ ) ; Davis, 



Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 1897, p. 204 ( $ ). 

 Scolobates auriculatus, Ratzeburg', Ichn. d. Forst. il, 1840, p. 77 ; 



Holmgren, Ofv. Sv. Ak. Forn. 1858, p. 330; id. Sv. Ak. Handl. 



1858, p. 154 : Taschen berir, Ilym. Deuts. 1866, p. 74 (c5" 5 ). 

 Prionopoda canadensis, Harrington, Canad. Entom. 1892, p. 98 (5). 



A smooth and strongly nitidulous species, black, with the head 

 •mainly and the abdomen centrally red. Head buccate, tumidous 

 and very smooth, parallel-sided behind the eyes; mouth, fi-ontal 

 orbits, cheeks very broadly and the sparsely punctate face, 

 fulvescent. Antenna' somewhat longer than the body, stout, 

 filiform and apically subattenuate, red or ferruginous beneath ; 

 scape oblicjuely truncate apically, and the first longer than second 

 flagellar joint. Thorax gibbulons, very smooth, a little longer 

 than high, blaclv ; sternum punctate ; metauotum glabrous, with 

 no arete, though impressed on either side at both base and apex. 

 Scutellum black. Abdomen centrally red, about as long as head 

 and thorax, deplauate or (in $) apically subcompressed ; basal 



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