370 ICHNEUMONIDiE. 



the eyes ; occiput and external orbits ])ale flavous, with the 

 vertex darker and the mandibular teeth black. Antennce ferru- 

 ginous, becoming darker towards their apices. Thorax pale 

 fulvescent flavous; mesonotum darker, with its central lobe 

 mainlv infusc.-ite and not distinctly discrete from the lateral; 

 nietanotum with no transverse stria?, but with a distinct central 

 transverse carina, wliejice two weaker carina; extend to the apex 

 and enclose a longitudinally aciculate petiolar area, or the 

 indistinct " depre^^sion in the middle at the base is broader than 

 its length, narrowed to a point in the middle at the apex and 

 longitudinally striated in the middle ; across the middle of the 

 median segment is a stout transverse keel, behind which, in the 

 centre, is a shallow depression ; the apex of the segment oblique, 

 the middle finely longitudinally striated " ; pleurae glabrous and 

 nitidulous. Scutelhim nitidulous, glabrous and pale flavous, with 

 its sides not carinate above ; postscutellum distinctly convex, 

 apically obliquely sloping : frenum striate. Abdomen ferru- 

 ginous, with the first segment basally paler. Legs concolorous 

 with the thorax. Wings hyaline, with the stigma fuh'Ous and 

 the nervures black ; basal nervnre not quite continuous through 

 the median; second recurrent nervure emitted opposite the apex 

 of the basal radial abscissa, rendering the abruptly triangular 

 apex of the first cubital ceil of equal length above and below. 

 Length 15 millim. 

 Assam : Khasi Hills (Rothneg). 

 Type in the Oxford Museum. 



This species is said to agree with 0. univittatv.s, Brulle, in 

 bearing a brunneous mesonotal band ; but the metathorax is not 

 covered ^vitil fine and curved strise, etc., as in that species. 



There is a large male of 22 millim. in the National Collection, 

 captured, during Jidy 1895 by G. C. Dudgeon, in Bhutan, which 

 agrees very well with this description, excepting that the abdomen 

 is black from the fourth segment : coloration is, however, known 

 to be inconstant in this genus. A female in the British Museum, 

 from Qnetta, also seems to be referable to this species. 



266. Ophion albopictus, Smith, 



Ophion albopictus, Smith, Scient. Res. 2nd Yarkand INIission, 1878, 

 Hym. p. 22 ; 0. O. Waterhouse, Aid Ideut. Ins. pi. clxii, 

 fig.4($). 



$ . Head white with the mandibles rufescent, the eyes and 

 ocelli black. Antennae red. Thorax rufescent, with two disc^al 

 mesonotal vitta?, the hiteral sutures and numerous pleural spots 

 below the wings white. Scutellum also white. Abdomen red, 

 with some pale whitish lateral spots towards the anus; two 

 ba'sal ventral segments white. Wings hyaline and iridescent, 

 with the nervures ferruginous and the stigma pale red. 



Length 13 millim. 



Kashmir {Lr. Stoliczhi). 



