No. XIL— HYMENOPTERA, ICHNEUMONIDyE. 



By Claude Morley, F.E.S., F.Z.S., etc. 



(Communicated by Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S.) 



(Read 1st February 1912.) 



Subfamily Cryptinse. 

 Hemiteles Gravenhorst, Ichn. Europ. ii (1829), 781. 



1. Hemiteles cmgulatorius, sp. n. 



A black and testaceous species, with the abdominal segments pale-banded. Head 

 black with the eyes large, but hardly prominent ; vertex deplanate, closely punctate and 

 dull ; frons with a central nitidulous line, and apically impressed on either side above the 

 scrobes ; face dull, subtransverse and in $ narrowly rufescent below antennae, in $ entirely 

 with mouth and cheeks stramineous ; clypeus convex, strongly discreted with its apex 

 truncate and subbituberculate, of $ rufescent throughout ; mandibles broad and except 

 apically testaceous, equally bidentate and closely punctate ; palpi whitish. Antennae 

 filiform, basally subattenuate, black throughout with the scape testaceous beneath and in 

 ? the centre more or less broadly white-banded ; three basal flagellar joints strongly 

 elongate, and in $ apically subnodulose with the fourth much shorter and apically white. 

 Thorax black and dull with apex of metathorax, in $ pronotum and in $ disc of mesonotum 

 rufescent ; whole pleurae and sternum, except a mesopleural mark, in $ testaceous and in 

 $ rufescent ; metanotum, except basally, strongly and somewhat coarsely punctate with 

 the ill-defined areola subquadrate and parallel-sided and both basal and a})ical carinse 

 distinct, the latter with small and especially in $ acute apophyses ; petiolar area deplanate 

 and entire. Scutellum strongly convex, nitidulous and in ?, together with its whole 

 region, rufescent and in ,t black with its region testaceous. Abdomen black with apices 

 of three basal segments, and the $ anus, stramineous-white ; basal segment nearly thrice 

 longer than apically broad, but slightly explanate throughout, nitidulous with no 

 tubercles ; second and third of ? explanate, shagreened, convex and the following more 

 nitidulous, of $ slender and subcylindrical ; terebra nearly half length of abdomen, apically 

 attenuate, with the feri'ugineous spicula subarcuate at its apical third. Legs testaceous 

 and not stout with tlie posterior femora black or nigrescent above, and the hind tarsi 

 with their coxse discally and their basally constricted tibi* entirely black. Wings not 

 ample, hyaline with very slightly infumate central and apical ? fasciue ; all nervures strong 

 to apex ; outer nervure of the small areolet entirely wanting ; nervellus strongly postfurcal 

 and intercepted at its centre. Lengtii, 3^ — 5 mm. ^$. 



