KxociiiLr.M. 411 



fulvous, witli the second, iiCth and sixth segments disctilly black- 

 lined, and the third to sixth laterally broadly blaek. Le(is red, 

 with the anterior paler and subflavidous ; posterior coxw except 

 basally, and the apices of both the hind femora and tibite, black 

 Wings nnicolorous infumate-fulvous ; stigma and costa fulvous ; 

 nervures infuscate. 



Length 17-22 millim. 



Punjab : Simla, 7000 £t., v. J)7, x. 07 {CoJ. Nurse, H. M. Lefrog) ; 

 Uniteb Puoti>'Ces : IMussoori (Eothneg) ; Assam : Shillong, 

 0000 ft., iv. 03 (Rou'land Turner). Eukope. 



The stout conformation, flavous scutellum, and conspicuously 

 black apices of both the hind tibiio and femora, render this hand- 

 some species easily recognised. 



Katzeburg has traced the life-history of this species from the 

 egg in his ' Die Ichneumonen ' (i, pp. 80-87 ; cf. pi. ix, iigs. 11-22), 

 and this may well be consulted as a typical account of the deve- 

 lopment of IciiNEu:\ioNii),i:. 



There is a male in Col. Nurse's collection which Cameron had 

 named A. mitssouriense. This circumstance has enabled me to 

 synonymise the latter's species with the Pakcarctic variety 

 giganteum, Grav., as brought forward by Eatzeburg and Wesmael. 

 The typical form of E. cbrumjiexum is common throughout 

 Europe, but this variety, A\'hich averages larger and extends to 

 30 milliin. in length, occurs principally in the south. It preys 

 upon the larvae of largo Bombycid moths. 



303. Exochiliim orbitale, Mori. 



RrochUnm orbitale, Morley, Eev. Icbii. Erit. JNliis. ii, 191.3, x>- 78. 



(5" $ . A red species with the head and thorax, excepting the 

 ■flavous mouth, face, frontal and very broad external orbits, tegukc 

 and scutellum, black ; head not posteriorly buccate, antenna) 

 slender and elongate. 



Length '22 millim. 



Burma: Xaren Hills, 3000-3700 ft. (L. Fea). 



Tgpe in the Genoa Museum. 



T^'iiis is too closely allied to the last species to need a detailed 

 description ; therefrom it differs in its more slender and elongate 

 form, legs and anteiuia;, the posteriorly narrowei- head, with its 

 conspicuous Havous external and vertical orbits, the entirely pale 

 frontal cristula and scape, deplauate scutellum, and iuunaculate 

 red hind femora and coxic. 



I associate the male with some degree of doubt ; the sculpture 

 and all essential points are analogous, but the external orbits are 

 pale only below, and both tlie frontal cristula and scutnllum are 

 immaculate bku^k ; however, I greatly dislike erecting new species 

 on unsatisfactory evidt-nce, and the only male 1 have yet seen is 

 a broken example from Shillong, Assam, (5000 ft., ix.(»3 {liowlaml 

 Turner). 



