348 ICHNEUMONID.i:. 



^! (9) Stigma distinctly infuscate ; hiud 



tarsi stramineous m'(/riven(n's, Brulle, p. 349. 



9 {>>) Stigma ttavescent ; hind tarsi not 



paler than tihiaj. 



10 (11) Mesonotiun unicolorous ocelhin'n, Thorns., p. 350. 



11 (10) Mesonotum with three infuscate 



stripes Unecdus, Brulle, p. 352. 



12 (7) Darker ; metanotuni strongly 



strigose. 



13 (14) Mesonotum unicolorous tcHfnccuit, Grav., p. 352. 



14 (13) Mesonotum witli four paler vitt.ie. qna(lrilineatus,^m\t\\,]i.Z^4t. 



15 (4) Notauli distinct at most on apical 



two-thirds of mesonotum. 

 1<> (17) Thorax immaculate testaceous ; 



metanotum sculptured orifufalis, Cam., p. 355. 



17 (16) Thorax hroadly flavous ; meta- 



notum glabrous Jlavulineafus, Cam., p. 355. 



18 (1) Labrum centrally produced into 



an elongate spine onontanus, Cam., p. 356. 



244. Paniscus laevis, Cam. 



Pcuiiscus Iccuif, Cameron, Spol. Zeyl.'1905, p. 127 (5)- 



S $ . Au unusually slender, pale flavous, iiitidulous ami almost 

 entirely glabrous species. Head subimpunctate, with the clypeus 

 apically rounded and basally not discrete ; cheeks wanting ; 

 vertex obliquely constricted, but )iot very narrow. Anfenme sub- 

 rufescent and not apically dai'ker, with abnormally close and long 

 white pubescence. Thorax subim])unctate, with the notauli very 

 superficial ; raetasterual carina broadened basallj\ Scutellum 

 witli the carinje not apically coalescent. Abdomen and legs 

 immaculate ; valvula? of 5 not black, of c? very large, and 

 strongly exserted in both sexes. Wiw/s hyaline, with the stigma 

 pale flavous and the nervures blackish; nervellus intercepted close 

 to bottom of upper fourth, and inferiorly abnormally oblique. 



Length 8-9 millim. 



Bengal: Chapra(Pasacoll.); Ceylon: Kimdy (E. E.Green,tj^e). 



This species differs from all other Oriental members of this 

 genus in being almost entirely smooth, with the head and thorax 

 subimpunctate and the metanotum very obsoletely striate ; the 

 upper basal nervure is emitted bj^ the median further fi'om the 

 lower basal, the notauli are much weaker, and the eyes, divergent 

 below in P. intermed'ms and P. orientalis, are internally parallel. 



It has the facies of a small and weakly develo])cd P. ocellaris, but 

 the head and thorax are subglabrous, with the puuctatiou and stri- 

 ation obsolete, though hardly wanting, and the tarsi are almost 

 white ; above all. the areolet is remarkably narrow, being fully 

 thrice as high as centrally broad, and emitting the internal cubital 

 nervure from its centre and not, as in the latter species, from 

 distinctly below its centre. The only male 1 have seen is hardly 

 ■S millim. in length, slender and very pale; it is in the Oxford 

 Museum and was captured in Ceylon in 1872 by Dr. Thwaites, 

 who presented a female from the same island to the British 

 Museum in 18G7. 



