30 ICHNEUMONIDJS. 



callosities large ; metanotum with three basal areas, of which the 

 areola is much the smallest and the outer cues punctate, its disc 

 broadly glabrous, the sides irregularly strigose and the apex tri- 

 angularly carinate on either side; metapleurso closely punctate, 

 buallj more closely and obliquely cariuate. SeuteUwn punctate 

 throughout, but less strongly than the mesonotum, its apex and 

 that of the smooth postscutellum subflavidous ; latter closely 

 striate at the base on either side and distinctly cariuate apically. 

 Abdomen red and glabrous, with the anus subnigrescent. Legs 

 testaceous, with the hind ones deep black throughout, with black 

 pilosity; hind calcaria testaceous. Wings hyaline and infumate 

 only at their apices ; nervures and stigma black ; second recurrent 

 nervure with very broad, but not confluent, fenestrae. 



length 9 millim. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills (KotJmey). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



There is a badly broken specimen in the Calcutta Museum, 

 which possibly belongs here ; it was taken by W. Doherty in 

 Tenasserim. 



4. Macrogaster luteus, Cam. 



Macrogaster luteus, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 199 (J). 



A luteous species, with black markings, antennae and stigma. 

 Head pale; face strongly punctate and densely infuscate-pilose, 

 with the epistoma broadly carinate basally ; clypeus semicircular 

 and laterally foveate above, sparsely punctate and apically rounded 

 on either side ; inner orbits distinctly margined above and verti- 

 cally sulcate; irons centrally impressed, laterally closely punctate, 

 with an obtuse carina between the scrobes ; vertex sparsely 

 punctate, black, with the occiput concolorous above. Antenna 

 black, becoming piceous apically ; the pilose scape clear and the 

 pubescent flagellum dull, flavescent beneath. Thorax luteous ; 

 pro- and meso-pleurae strongly punctate, the former strigose below 

 and the latter black-marked ; mesouotuin strongly punctate, with 

 the central lobe basally trilobate and apically black ; the lateral 

 lobes basally confluent and mainly black ; metanotum basally black, 

 with three apically punctate arese, of which the areola is broader 

 than long, apically rounded, emitting the costulae from its sides, 

 and from its centre a shorter and straight carina ; petiolar area 

 glabrous and laterally carinate, with a small area at its base ; 

 metapleurae and sternum closely punctate and, between the carinae, 

 stoutly and irregularly strigose. Scutellum convexly declivous at 

 base and apex, strongly punctate, with elongate infuscate pilosity, 

 and its apex black ; postscutellum impunctate, nitidulous and 

 subglabrous. Abdomen nitidulous and impunctate ; luteous, with 

 nil the segments, except the first, basally black and with the 

 markings constricted towards the anus ; gastrocoeli broad, smooth 

 and oblique. Legs concolorous with the body ; luteous, with the 



