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ICHNEUMONID-i:. 



Fig. 139. 



Limnerium queitcsnse, Cam. 



discrete, Avitli dense long grey piibesceiice ; palpi testaceous red; 

 mandibles pale ilavous, with their apices brilHant sanguineous ; 



face a little prominent, dull and 

 obsoletely punctate, \\'ith long dense 

 grey pubescence ; frons and vertex 

 closely and very finely punctate. 

 Antennce black ; in J extending to 

 apex of basal segment. Thorax 

 immaculate, dull, closely punctate 

 and shortly pilose, with the notauli 

 obsolete ; metanotum basal ly closely 

 punctate ; basal lateral arete in- 

 defiuite ; basal area small and sub- 

 quadrate, witlj stout and nitidulous 

 carinas ; areola coalescent with the 

 petiolar area, unusually excavate, 

 strongly but not closely trans-striate, 

 Mith the lateral area more strongly 

 and irregularly striate ; spiracles 

 oval and distinctly broader than long. Scutellum black. Abdomen 

 glabrous, nitidulous and immaculate; basal segment nitidulous, 

 smooth, with very obsolete punctation, postpetiole distinct ; S 

 valvulae large and exserted. Legs bright fulvous, the anterior pairs 

 not paler ; hind coxae and basal joint of their trochanters black ; 

 posterior tarsi, except basally, dark, with tlie base of all the joints 

 a little paler. Wings hyaline, Avith the tegulae pure white, 

 nervures blackish and the stigma ferruginous ; areolet distinctly 

 petiolate and somewhat large, triangular, widened apically and 

 emitting the incurved recurrent nervure from its centre ; basal 

 nervure continuous. 

 Length 7-8 millim. 



5 . Differs in its black mandibles, witli much shorter teeth, 

 convex scutellum and duller metanotum, with less distinct carinae. 

 BALUCHiSTAi!f : Quetta, V. and vi, 02 {Col. Nurse, types); 

 Punjab : Kaugra Valley, 4500 ft., iv. 99 {G. C. Dudgeon), Simla, 

 7000 ft., iv. 07, and Kasauli, 6300 ft., v. 08 {N. Ayinandale) ; 

 SiKKiM : Darjiling, GOOO ft., ix. 08 {E. Brunetti—Iud. Mus.). 



Ti/pe cS in Col. Nurse's collection; type 5 in the British 

 Museum. 



This species is said to differ from L. forticannatum in having 

 the petiole of the areolet only half the length of its internal 

 nervure, tlie anterior coxae and trochanters not black-mai-ked and 

 the metanotal petiolar area less closely and regularly striate : from 

 L. parvicarinatum tlie S differs in having the metanotum more or 

 less distinctly areated and the basal nervure continuous. I am by 

 no means convinced, however, that Cameron's sexes are conspecific, 

 though superficially similar and belonging to the genus Limneria, 

 sensu Thorns. ; it is closely allied to, and very possibly synonymous 

 Avith, Gampoplex xanthostoma, Grav., which I do not kuow^ in 

 nature. 



