358 ICHNEUMONIDJi:. 



J'ahle of Species. 



1 (2) Nervellus of hiiul wing- intercepted distinctly 



above centre virr/atns, Fourc. 



2 (1) Nervellus intercepted at its centre avqilus, Mori. 



255. Parabatus virgatus, Fourc. 



Ichneumon virf/ahts, Fourcroy, Entom. Paris, ii, 1785, p. 401; 



de Villers, Linn. Eut. iii, 1789, p. 204. 

 Ophion virgatum, Gravenhorst, Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Curios. 1818, 



p. 295. 

 Paniscus virgatus, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. iii, 1829, p. 625 ; Newport, 



Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi, 1852, p. 71, pi. viii, tigs. 18-19 : Holmgren, 



Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 32 ; liridgmau & Fitch, Entom. 1885, p. 13 



(J?)- 



Parabatus virgatus, Thomson, Opusc. Eut. xii, 1888, p. 1197 ; Brauns, 

 Arch. Nat. Meckl. 1889, p. 80; Bridgman, Trans. Eut. Soc. 1889, 

 p. 420; Kokujew, Horse Soc. Eut. Ifoss. 1899, p. 136, note ( d $ )• 



Panisctis interstitialis, Cameron, Mauch. Mem. 1899, p. 106 (l^d). 



c5' 5 . A pale red species, with the head flavous and the meso- 

 notum often more or less infuscate. Head pale, with the palpi 

 and mandibles rufescent, and the teeth of the latter black ; face 

 closely but not strongly punctate, and, like the clypeus, with 

 short white hairs; apex of clypeus with long ferruginous hairs; 

 vertex blackish only between the basal ocelli. Antennce elongate, 

 unicolorous red and Aery sparsely pilose. Thorax pale ; meso- 

 notum sometimes infuscate, with the central, or all three, lobes 

 dark, but the notauli alwaj^s pale ; nietathorax convexly de])lanate 

 basally, its apex centrally elevated, its sides shghtly depressed and 

 bordered posteriorly by a stout and curved carina : metanotum 

 not distinct!}' trans-aciculate ; all the pleura? smooth, shining and 

 flavescent, with the uietapleural sulcus broad and deeply iu)pressed ; 

 mesosternum sometimes deep black. Scutelhim ferruginous and 

 often laterally paler ; postscutellum roundly oblique at both ex- 

 tremities. Abdomen testaceous and not strongly constricted at 

 the base, often subiufuscate apically. Legs rufescent; cox8e, tro- 

 chanters and hind tibije stramineous in c? . Wings clear hj^aline, 

 with the costa and stigma flavidous : nervures basally black, be- 

 coming paler apically ; areolet oblique, narrow, snbelongate, and 

 shortly but distinctly petiolate, with its outer nervure pellucid 

 throughout its lower half; second recurrent nervure continuous 

 with outer nervure of areolet, pellucid to its extreme base, as well 

 as below its centre, aud very strongly curved outwardly through- 

 out ; basal nervui'e continuous through the median ; nervelet 

 wanting; nervellus intercepted at its upper third or fourth. 



Length 10-14 millim. 



Punjab: Simla, 7000 ft., iv. 07 (Ind. Mus.) ; Sikkim: Kur- 

 seong, GOOD ft., v. 09, and Gangtok, (5150 ft., ix. 09 (Ind. Mus.) ; 

 Assam: Khasi Hills (i^oi'/nicy). Europe. 



This is a very abundant species throughout the Pala?arctic 

 region, and it had already been recorded from the Oriental by 



