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by an elongate and acuminate corneous process. By means of 

 this strand it is obvious that the pendulous cocoon bangs free 

 from a leaf, to which, in the present instance, it is still firmly 

 fastened by three or four radiating and intertwined series of 

 threads, greatly resembling the roots of a tree. The imago had 

 emerged through a somewhut irregularly circular hole, excised a 

 little on one side of the extremity furthest from the strand. 



248. Paniscus lineatus, Brul. 



Paniscus lineatus, BruUe, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym. 1846, p. 157 ( $ ). 



$ . A red species. Head with the orbits flavous, the face and 

 external orbits subflavescent, and the vertex black. Thorax 

 with the mesouotum subtrilobed, the lobes not very distinct and 

 each bearing an indeterminate brunneous hue ; metathorax 

 discally finely trans-striate, with the apophyses inconspicuous. 

 Wings with the nervures of their basal half piceous, becoming 

 rufescent apically ; areolet extei-nally pellucid, with its outer angle 

 not or hardly acute. 



Length 20 millim. ; length of terebra 3 millim. 



Bengal (IJuvaucel, teste Brulle). 



It is said to resemble the same author's P. j^fodnctus, P. melan- 

 Ojms, and P. ritfus, from which it may be known by the areolet 

 being neither minute nor apically acute. 



I have seen no specimens that I can attribute to this very 

 indefinite species, the mesonotal coloration of which resembles 

 that of Parahatus virgatus, Fourc. 



249. Paniscus testaceus, Grav. 



Ichneumon liiteus, Rossi [nee Linn.), Faun. Etrusc. ii, 1790, p. 51 ; 

 Jurine, Nouv. M^th. CLi8s., Hym. ii, 1807, p. 2 ( $ ). 



Punisciis testacens, Gravenlioist, Ichn. Europ, iii, 1829, p. 626 ; 

 Ratzeburg, Ichn. d. Forst. i, p. 100 ; ii, p. 80 ; iii, p. 81 ; Holm- 

 "•ren, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1854, p. 22 ; oj). cit. 1858, p. 32 ; Rriscbke, 

 Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1880, p. 138; Biidg-man Jt Fitch, Entom. 

 1885, p. 13 ; Brauiis, Arch. Nat. Mecklenb. 1889, p. 84 ; Koku- 

 jew, Horaj Soc. Ent. Ross. 1899, p. 134 ( d" $ ). 



Ophion testaceus, Lucas, Explor. Alger., Zool. iii, 184G, p. 326. 



Paniscus loiKjitarsis, Cixm^iXQW,* Islawch.. Mem, 1899, p. 108 (d): 

 cf. Entom. 1907, p. 8. 



A fulvous or testaceous species with the face and the apex of 

 the coarsely strigose metanolum flavous. Head flavous ; face with 

 short iufuscate, and the clypeus with much longer blackish, 

 pilosity ; epistoma circularly subpromineut ; mandibles with 

 elongate pilosity, basally rufescent and apically black ; palpi 

 stramineous, elongate, and with white hairs ; ocellar region black 

 and the frons centrally rufescent, with its apical sulcus, and 

 another above each scrobe, deeply impressed. Antennce ferruginous 



