340 ICHNEUMONID.'E. 



segment straiglit, hardly exteuding to apex of hind trocbanters^ 

 deplanate and apically strongly widened, with the spiracles 

 prominent and siibcentral ; second segment subquadrate and the 

 following transverse ; terebra straight and not extending beyond 

 the anus. Legs : anterior pairs somewhat slender and red, basally 

 black ; hind ones stout and longer, black, with whole of femora 



Fig. 96. — Scolobaies auriculatu^, F. 



and extreme base of tibiae red; hind tarsi broad, w'lih. their cla^s 

 distinctly pectinate. Wings A^ery slightly infumate with the 

 stigma infuscate piceous, radix testaceous and tegulcC blackish ; 

 radial nervure curved ; nervellus strongly intercepted nearly in its 

 centre. 



Length 5-9 millim. 



Kashmir, 5000-6000 ft., v. 01 {CohNiirse). Europe. Nokth 

 America. 



This is a very variable species in size, but its colour, the incrassate 

 hind tarsi and peculiarly broad head, render it unmistakable. 



It is nowhere common, though occurring throughout nearly the 

 whole of Europe and Northern America from Ottawa to Texas. 

 The older authors thought it parasitic on Lepidoptera {Smerintlms 

 ocellatus, Ratz. 7. c), but it attacks Tenthredinid.e (Ifi/lofoma 

 2mqana, Bchc, and H. rosa\ Giraud (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 

 1877, p. 407); the observations of Hudson (Ent. 1884, p. 171) 

 and W. W. Smith (E. M. M. 1900, p. 160) refer to Bassu^ 

 Icetatorius, E. (v. p. 278). The only Indian example I have seen is 

 a somewhat small but very typical female. 



