400 ICHNEUMON id;e. 



propleurae, dilated at the apex, a small, triangular mark below the 

 tegula), .1 larger one in the middle below, a still larger, triangular 

 mark below the hind wings and the apical half of metanotum, 

 the spot narrowly dilated in the middle above, yellow ; the ocellar 

 region and the front broadly — the mark broadest above — a mark 

 on the base of propleura) in the middle, the sciitcllar depression 

 and keels, the lower sides broadly, a spot covering the spiracles 

 on metanotum and the abdomen, except the basal half of 1st 

 segment (which is dull red), black. Four front legs rufo-fulvous, 

 the coxa} yellow ; the hind legs black, the coxa) rufous, the femora 

 largely rufous. AVings hyaline, iridescent, not much longer than 

 the head and thorax united; the stigma and nervures black. 

 Antenna; black, the scape rufous below. 



" Face closely, the clypeus sparsely punctured ; the latter 

 T)roadly black above, narrowed below to a point which is bidentate ; 

 the black central part of front strongly transversely striated and 

 keeled down the middle, the sides punctured. Vertex sparsely 

 punctured laterally and between the ocelli. Mesonotum reticu- 

 lated, the base in the centre finely, minutely ])unctured, the sides 

 transversely striated ; the outer edges with lai'ge, clearly separated 

 punctures. Scutellum coarsely punctured ; the lateral keels black, 

 distinct. Base of metanotum bordered by a transverse keel, 

 smooth, with two keels in the middle ; the rest reticulated and 

 thickly covered with longish white pubescence. Propleura) 

 smooth at the base, the apex above punctured, the rest stoutly, 

 longitudinally striated. Mesopleura) rugosely punctured ; more 

 or less reticulated, the top stoutly striated at the base, smooth at 

 the apex ; the apex with stout stria). Metapleurse reticulated. 

 Abdomen at least three times longer than the thorax, very smooth 

 and shining. Length 9 millim." 



Bombay : Deesa, ii. 99 ( CoJ. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



This male is identical with the one in the Pusa collection, 

 referred to above, and with another in the Oxford Museum, 

 simply labelled " India " ; but I can trace no structural distinc- 

 tions.] 



295. Nototrachys variistriatus, Mori. 



NototracJtys reticiddtuSjC-AvaQxon {iiec Cresson), Spolia Zeylanlca, 



1905, p." 128 (5). 

 Nototradn/s variistriatus, Morley, Kevis. Ichn. Brit. Mus. 1912, 



p. 70($). 



5 . A black species, with the legs dull testaceous in part. 

 Head with the frons and vertex nitidulous, the former finely 

 trans-aciculate and centrally longitudinally carinate ; face obso- 

 letely, and clypeus closely, punctate ; mandibles red. Anteance 

 slender, extending to apex of basal segment, densely pubescent 

 and black, sometimes becoming testaceous apically, twenty-jointed, 

 w ith the apical as long as the two penultimate united ; scape bright 



