MKSOCUORUS. 519 



^acohea', L., in Euglaml, us stilted by the E,3\'. T, .V. Mai'shall 

 (' Bracouides d'Europe/ i, p, 470), and a in;ile was bred at Piisa 

 from the Noctuid moth, 0/)hlHsa mdio'rta. in the Calcutta 

 .Aluseum are tliree males, together with some forty ApanteJes 

 <;ocoous, whence they had emerged, on a leaf, labelled "Ichneumons 

 of Adolias (jaruda,'' but with no locality. 



408. Mesocliorus fragilis, S[). u. 



c? . A small, pale testaceous species, with (he ocellar region 

 alone black : stigma unicolorous strainin(^ous ; basal nervure 

 •continuous tlirough the median ; areolet subpetitjlate. 



LeiH/th 'S^ millim. 



Texasskuim (IF. DoJiert)/). 



Tirpe m the Indian Afuseum. 



This species so closely resembles M. facialis in every particular 

 that 1 should certainly have considered it nothing but a pale 

 form, were it not that the basal nervure is quite continuous 

 through the median and the areolet somewliat distinctly less 

 sessile ; in coloration, however, it is altogether palei', having the 

 ■ocellar region alone black, with the thyridii of the second and 

 upex of the third segment slightly inf uscate ; the second segment 

 is a little longer than broad, the hind tibiio are immaculate and 

 the stigma pale stramineous. 



Described from a single male. 



400. Mesochorus claristigmaticus, sp. n. 



2 . A somewhat small, indefinitely black and testaceous species, 

 with the basal nervure continuous, the areolet subpetiolate and 

 the stigma basally hyaline. Jlend rufescent testaceous, with the 

 ocellar region and mandibular apices black; ocelli not large, nor 

 the frontal orbits white. Antenna', slender, filiform and pale 

 throughout. Mesonoti'in h'nely punctate and testaceous, with its 

 sides snbinfnscate; meso-and pro-pleura; aiid prosternum blackish, 

 with distinct sternauli ; metapleura' black ; metanotum clear red. 

 with the areola hexagonal, twice as long as broad, emitting the 

 costulse distinctly before its centre, and gradually constricted 

 basally ; basal area wanting ; petiolar area not extending to 

 ■ceuti'e of metathorax, basally rounded and finely discrete ; 

 spiracles circular, not small, remote from the entire lateral carinie 

 aind facing upwards. Scniellani testaceous and (apparently) 

 apically tuberculate. Alidonwn. glabrous and nitidulous, with the 

 slender basal segment subaciculate before its apex, and compressed 

 from the third segment; rufescent t(>staceous, with the anus and 

 sides of the second and third segments dark ; basal segment a 

 little widened from the subpi-ominent spiracles, and the second 

 distinctly a little longer than apically broad ; terebra straight and 

 not slender, black and as long as the second segment. Lfrjx 

 testaceous ; the anterioi- femora and tibiae, with the hind tibiie 

 (except their deep black apices), flavescent; hind calcaria exactly 



