86 ICHNEUMOXIDJE. 



with some hesitation that I here place a male, of whose female I 

 am ignorant, and describe it as new, since Ashmead makes no 

 mention, in 1900, of the very buccate temples, and his species is 

 from Missouri, in America. 



44. Calliephialtes xanthosoma, sp. n. 



<J . A somewhat small flavous species, with black antennae and 

 markings. Head strongly buccate posteriorly and as broad as the 

 eyes ; flavidous, with a triangular central patch on the occiput, 

 extending forward round the ocelli, and the apices of the mandibles, 

 black ; vertex broad and glabrous, 

 scrobes ill-defined and large ; face 

 deplanate, entirely stramineous, 

 nitidulous and shallowly punctate, 

 apically truncately separated from 

 the short flavous, centrally ele- 

 vated and apically subtruncate 

 a ^ clypeus ; mandibles testaceous, 



1 / frit somewhat stout, with the subequal 



|| Q I teeth apically obtuse; palpi pale, 



cheeks obsolete. Antennae nearly 

 as long as the body, filiform, black, 

 Fig ig with the scape stramineous, and 



Calliephialtes xanthosoma, Mori, the flagellum basally ferruginous, 

 beneath. Thorax flavous and 



strongly nitidulous, with a dot on the front of the mesonotum, 

 a hamate mark on either side of it, a circular dot on the rneso- 

 pleure, the apex of the nitidulous, exareolate and flavous-pilose 

 metathorax, a dot at the apex of the scutellurn, another before it, 

 and the whole postscutellum black ; metathorax entirely glabrous, 

 with the spiracles quite circular and small. Abdomen flavous, 

 with the apices of all the segments deep black, strongly and 

 sparsely punctate throughout ; basal segment bicarinate to the 

 centre only ; the five following broadly tuberculate on either 

 side; valvulae infuscate and hardly exserted. Leys flavidous 

 and normal, with all the claws infuscate and not basally lobate ; 

 hind ones with the trochanters, extreme base and apex of their 

 tibiae, and the whole tarsi, iufuscate. Wings normnl and hyaline ; 

 radix and tegulae flavous ; costa and stigma, except the testaceous 

 base of the latter, black ; areolet broadly subtriangular, emitting 

 the recurrent nervure from near its apex ; first recurrent of hind 

 wings a little postfurcal, emitting the nervellus from its exact 

 centre. 



Length 8 millim. 



SIKKIM (Bingham). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Described from a single specimen. 



