Ickneumonidous Group Tryplionidcs schizodonti. 437 



central transverse carina and the petiolar area basally rounded. 

 Scutellaria and post-scutellum subconvex, immaculate. Abdomen 

 black with segments two to four red ; the basal longer than broad 

 and apically explanate ; second and third uniformly convex, with 

 no transverse impressions. Legs red with coxa?, base of the front 

 trochanters and apices of their tarsi, black. Wings hyaline ; 

 nervures basally, and tegulae, red. 

 Length, 9 mm. 



Southern Spain {Victor Ghiliani). 



Bassus athalIjEperda, Curtis. 



Farm Insects (I860), 53. 



Black, minutely punctate and finely pubescent. Face and mouth 

 -white, with epistoma longitudinally, and the clypeal foveae black ; 

 labrum and apices of mandibles dull ferrugineous. Antennae as long 

 as the body. Legs red and somewhat stout ; coxae flavous ; tarsi 

 and basal half of hind tibiae fulvous, the latter apically and their 

 tarsi black. Wings iridescent ; costa and stigma fulvous, nervines 

 piceous ; areolet wanting. 



Length, 6 mm. 



England ; bred from Athalia spinarum. 



Bassus carinulatus, Ruthe. 



Stett. Ent. Zeit. xx (1859), p. 373, Z % 



Black. Palpi infuscate ; g with face, mouth and apices of cheeks 

 stramineous ; $ with clypeus and mandibles ferrugineous. Antennae 

 of <$ as long as the body, basally fulvous, with the scape clear 

 stramineous, beneath ; of ? shorter, with the flagtdlum subrufescent 

 beneath. Thorax of $ immaculate, with mesosternum closely 

 punctate ; of £ with lines before and beneath the radix, and the 

 mesopleura? anteriorly flavous. Scutellum black. Abdomen imma- 

 culate, with the basal segment rugosely punctate, bearing two sub- 

 parallel carinae ; the second rugosely striate ; anus of $ closely and 

 finely punctate, of $ sparsely punctate and nitidulous. Legs pale 

 red, with the hind tarsi and tibiae black, the latter basally more or 

 less broadly white ; front coxae of $ black, of $ stramineous. 

 Wings with tegulae of £ flavous ; areolet triangular, petiolate, entire. 



Length, 5-6 mm. 



The £ resembles B. dcplanatus, but is much more 

 slender; the $ is nearer B. ornatas. 

 Iceland {Dr. Staudinger). 



