260 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TEN NEW SPECIES AND NINE 

 NEW GENERA OF ICHNEUMONID^ FROM INDIA, 

 CEYLON, AND JAPAN. 



By p. Cameron. 



(Concluded from p. 241.) 



Leptothecus rufomaculatus, sp. nov. 

 Black ; the middle of the propleurfe broadly, the base narrowly, 

 the upper half of the mesopleurse, the centre of the mesosternum, the 

 mesouotum, and the basal half of the scutellum broadly in the middle, 

 rufous ; the two outer arete of the median segment, the apex of the 

 spiracular area, with the spines and the apex of the pleurae above, 

 yellow, the posterior median area and the part on either side above it 

 rufous. Legs pallid yellow, the fore femora below, the middle above 

 and at the base below, the hinder coxae, except at tlie apex, the femora 

 entirely, and the apex of the hinder tibia3, black. Wings clear hyaline, 

 the stigma testaceous, the costa and nervures black. The second to 

 fourth ventral segments yellowish, the dorsal narrowly at the apices, 

 the last yellowish in the middle above, broadly at the apex, narrowly 

 at the base. The twelfth to twenty-second joints of the antennae 

 clear white, the scape thickly covered with white pubescence, its basal 

 half rufous beneath. Face, clypeus, inner orbits narrowly at the front, 

 more broadly above the frontal depression, narrowly on the outer 

 orbits above, broadly below, and the malar space, yellow. ? . Length, 

 17 mm. 



Hah. Darjeeling. 



Face sparsely punctured, the sides with a few striae, the clypeus 

 smooth ; both are sparsely covered with glistening white hair ; the 

 front, vertex, and occiput shagreened, and thickly covered with white 

 pubescence. Base of mandibles broadly yellow. Scutellum coarsely 

 granular, thickly covered with short white pubescence. Areola coarsely 

 closely transversely striated, as are also the lateral areae. Pleune 

 closely punctured, the apex of the pro- and the base of the meso- 

 striated ; the meta- on the basal two-thirds closely longitudinally 

 striated. 



PHiEOGENINI. 



Benecles, gen. nov. 

 Metathoracic spiracles small, almost circular. Median segment 

 completely areolated, obliquely depressed at the base, the sides not 

 toothed, but with the keel at the apex in the middle prominent ; the 

 areola wider than long, slightly narrowed towards the apex. Scutellum 

 roundly convex, not much raised above the level of the mesonotum, 

 its sides keeled at the base. Apex of clypeus broadly transverse, its 

 sides above with an oblique furrow. Mandibles unequally toothed, 

 the apical long, sharply pointed, the subapical short, indistinct. 

 Temples small, obliquely narrowed. Post- scutellum stout ; the gas- 

 trocceli shallow, distinct ; the lunulee large. Areolet 5-angled, nar- 

 rowed above ; the disco-cubital nervure without the stump of a nervure. 

 Antennae longer than the body, the scape distinctly shorter than the 



