196 THE UNTOMOLOGIST. 



and a black streak on either side of the beak. The wings are 

 huffish, with black speckled nervures. Like other Pieridse pupte. 

 it is attached by the cremastral hooks to a layer of silk, and a 

 silken girdle round the waist. 



A female imago emerged on December 11th, 1901. 



The English climate of late autumn and winter is obviously 

 quite unsuitable for the existence of P. daplidice, as well as both 

 species of Culias and Argynnis lathonia. I have always found 

 that the first spell of cold and damp weather (especially fog and 

 frost) to be fatal to them ; when in the larval state they im- 

 mediately cease feeding and rapidly die, and unless protected 

 against such climatic conditions the pupae likewise perish, 

 which is the cause of these species being unable to become 

 established in Britain. 



A NEW GENUS OF CRYPTIN^ (ICHNEUMONID^) 

 FROM SUMATRA. 



By p. Camekon. 



Ph^draspis, gen. nov. 



Scutellum roundly convex, strongly keeled laterally on the basal 

 half. Metanotimi with two complete keels, the apical laterally 

 projecting into broad teeth. Spiracles about three times longer 

 than wide. Antennae stout, not much thickened towards the apex, 

 ringed with white ; the third and fourth joints almost equal in 

 length. Sides and apex of clypeus depressed, margined ; the apex 

 transverse, broad. Abdominal petiole stout, the post-petiole large, 

 broad. Radial cellule short ; transverse median nervure received 

 behind the transverse basal ; disco-cubital unbroken ; areolet large, 

 five-angled, receiving the recurrent nervure near the apex ; the trans- 

 verse median nervure in hind wings broken at the middle. Apical 

 segments of abdomen spotted with white. Temples appearing short 

 from bemg very obliquely narrowed. Malar space as long as the 

 antennal scape. Tarsi spinose, the fourth joint deeply incised. Meta- 

 pleural keel complete. Mesonotum, scutellum, apex of first, and the 

 whole of the second segment, and the legs, red. 



Characteristic of this genus are the raised scutellum, strongly 

 spined laterally at the base, the metanotum with two transverse 

 complete keels, with the second broadly toothed laterally, and 

 the transverse median nervure in hind wings broken in the 

 middle. The legs longish, somewhat slender, entirely red. Meta- 

 notum punctured at the base, the rest closely strongly reticu- 

 lated. The genus, in the arrangement of Schmiedeknecht 

 (Opus. Ichn. 414), would come in near Lobocryptits, Schm., from 

 the form of the scutellum. 



