70 ICHNEUMONID.E. 



basally piceous ; frons impressed, with the inner orbits margined, 

 the outer acutely elevated and obliquely strigose above. Antennae 

 black, with the scape beneath, and a 14-joiuted central band, 

 stramineous. Thorax black, with the callosities and an apical 

 mesopleural line flavous ; mesonotum strongly and closely punc- 

 tate, propleurae smooth and shining with the lower part flavous ; 

 mesopleurae shagreened, closely and finely punctate near the 

 radices ; mesosternum im punctate ; metathorax evenly scabri- 

 culous, with no indication of areae above, laterally more closely, 

 centrally coarsely sculptured. Scutellum strongly and closely 

 punctate, with dense infuscate pilosity, white, with its base black; 

 postscutellum black and stibglabrous. Abdomen black, with the 

 apices of all the segments narrowly, and base of the first broadly, 

 stramineous ; first segment smooth, with its centre obscurely 

 shagreened ; the two following closely and distinctly punctate, 

 with the remainder subglabrous ; gastrocceli obsolete, not deeply 

 impressed, and closely punctate ; basal ventral segment flavescent 

 at both extremities, with a stout and centrally rounded basal 

 tooth ; terebra slightly longer than the abdomen. Legs flavous ; 

 the anterior with lines on the coxae and whole of tarsi, except 

 basal joint of front pair, black ; hind legs black, with marks on 

 coxae and trochanters, the hind tarsi except the two apical joints, 

 the apical third and the base of the tibiae, white ; and their femora, 

 except at apex, fulvous. Wings hyaline and iridescent, with the 

 costa and basal nervures black, the apical and the stigma infus- 

 cate ; areolet small, oblique and subsessile, emitting the recurrent 

 nervure from its apical third. 



Length 12-19 millira. c? . 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Rothney, type) ; Chandkhira, Sylhet 

 (J. L. SherweU) ; SIKKIM (Bingham) ; TENASS'EBIM : Mergui 

 (IF. Dohertylnd. Mus.). 



Type in the Oxford Museum, also that of B. leptopus they are 

 unquestionably conspecific. 



This female " comes nearer to Eugalta nigricollis, but is smaller, 

 and has the raesouotum distinctly punctured ; the clypeus semi- 

 circularly depressed at the apex ; the petiole shorter ;'the second 

 segment closely and rather strongly punctured ; the hinder tibiae 

 bbck, broadly yellow at the base and apex" (Cameron, Inc. cit.\ 



Genus EUGALTA, Cam. 

 Eugalta, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 135. 



GENOTYPE, E. strigosa, Cam. 



Eyes large and not apically convergent, upper orbits margined, 

 nearly reaching the base of the large and unidentate mandibles ; 

 clypeus not discrete from the face; temples neither flat nor 

 -oblique; ocelli large and prominent. Prothorax not produced 

 into a neck ; mesouotum centrally reticulate at the apex, with the 

 notauli deeply impressed ; metathorax elongate and gradually 

 rounded to its apex ; spiracles subcentral, small, oval or almost 



