482 ICHNEUMONID.Ti. 



373. Limnerium buddha, Com. 



Limneria budd/ia, Cameron,* Mancli. Mem. 1899, p. 124 (5)- 



5 . Head black, with the mandibles (except apically) and palpi 

 flavous ; face and clj'peus uniformly and sonie\\"hat strongly 

 punctate and pubescent ; irons and vertex less strongly punctate,, 

 more sparsely and shortly pubescent. Antenna' black, with the 

 scape tlavous, blackish above and with long pale pubescence 

 beneath ; flagellum with dense short black pubescence. Thorax 

 closely punctate, black, \\ith silvery pilosity ; mesonotuni with 

 sparse dark pubescence ; metathorax trans-aciculate apically in the- 

 centre, the central keel longish ; the lateral roundly curved ; pro- 

 pleurae closely punctured, running into longitudinal striations ; 

 the mesopleurae closely punctured ; the oblique depression, in 

 the middle behind, finely striated ; the metapleurte similarly 

 punctured ; the curved keel in the centre stout, attenuated at the 

 apex. ScKteUnm less strongly punctate than the mesonotun), it& 

 basal fovea with white pubescence ; postscutellum deeply foveolate, 

 and externally nitidulous, laterally. Abdomen red, with the first 

 segment, basal three-fourths of second, and centre of third basally,. 

 black ; venter centrally flavous ; terebra 2 millim. in length, with 

 the valvulse black. Legs : anterior pairs fulvous, with the coxae 

 and trochanters flavous ; hind legs subrufescent, with the coxae, 

 tarsi, and base and apex of their tibiae blackish ; calcaria flavous.. 

 Winf/s hyaline, with the stigma dark. 



Length 7 millim. 



Assam: Khasi Hills (Eothneij). 



Type in the Oxford Museum ; badly bi'oken. 



374. Limnerium fuscicarpus. Thorns. 



Limneria fnscicarpns, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xi, 1887, p. 1104 



Euhmneria fuscicatyvs. Schmiedeknecht, Opusc. Ichu. 1908,. 



p. lG54(c?"$)._ 

 Limnerium ammlijjes, Cameron MS. ( 5 ) (nee Cress. 1864). 



S $ . An elongate, black species, with the legs, except basally, 

 red ; femora normal, the hind ones immaculate ; the hind tibiae 

 pure white with their base and apex broadly black ; hind tarsi and 

 tlieir calcaria black, with the base of both broadly white ; longi- 

 tudinal metanotal impression dull and grauulose. 



Length 6-7 millim. 



Punjab : iSimla, viii. 98 (Col. Nurse). 



The pure white markings of the hind legs, all the trochanters 

 and mandibles, and the black base of the hind tibiae, render this 

 species distinct. 



I have seen onlv one female in Col. Nurse's collection. 



