SO ICHNEUMONIDjE. 



trans-strigose ; mandibles and the basally aciculate cheeks black. 

 Antennas black, ferruginous and slightly incrassate towards their 

 apices, with the flagellum piceous beneath at the base. Tliorax 

 flavous ; mesonotum, excepting for marks at radices and a large, 

 elongate and laterally parallel-sided vitta on the disc, black ; the 

 transverse striations stronger and more widely separated laterally 

 than discally ; pro- and meso-pleurae glabrous and nitidulous, with 

 the latter broadly at the base and more narrowly below at the 

 apex, black ; mesosternum with a transverse series of infuscate 

 lines on either side ; metat borax narrowly black basally, centrally 

 smooth and broadly canaliculate, laterally closely punctate, with 

 a broad semicircular apical black band ; metapleurae obscurely 

 punctate in the centre with the base and apex black-lined. 

 Scutellum finely and closely trans-strigose, flavous, with its extreme 

 apex centrally, like the glabrous and nitidulous postscutellum, 

 black. Abdomen nitidulous, flavous, with all the segments nar- 

 rowly black at the base and more broadly so at the apex, punctate, 

 with their apices glabrous ; apical ones also longitudinally black 

 centrally ; terebra one-fourth longer than the body. Leys flavous, 

 with the apices of the hind coxae, their tibia basally and all the 

 tarsi apically, black. Wings hyaline, with their apices infumate ; 

 costa, stigma and nervures black ; the second recurrent nervure 

 broadly fenestrate ; upper basal intercepting the median nervure 

 of the fore wings distinctly beyond the lower basal nervure. 



Length 15 in i Him. 



ASSAM: Khasi Hills (Rothney, type). SIKKIM (BingJiam, 

 var., Brit. Mus.). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



I have seen two females of this species differing slightly from 

 the above description in having the uietanotum glabrous and 

 nitidulous, throughout with no trace of areae, the mesonotum 

 laterally ftavous throughout, the mesosteruum entirely black and 

 the pleurae obliquely black in the centre, and the hind coxae and 

 tibiae immaculate flavous. The intermediate coxae are internally 

 black-marked; the mandibles short and obliquely unidentate 

 apically ; the metathoracic spiracles elongate-oval and Aery small; 

 the basal segment shorter than *the second ; the nervellus inter- 

 cepting the first recurrent of the lower wing at its junction with 

 the median; and the terebral valvulae are distinctly incrassate 

 .apically. 



48. Epirhyssa ornatipes, Cam. 



Epirhyssa ornatipes, Cameron, Spolia Zeylanica, 1905, p. 132 ( 4 ). 



A pale fulvous species, with black markings. Head glabrous 

 and nitidulous, with short white pubescence ; Irons centrally, the 

 occiput, the ocellar region, an extension from it laterally to the 

 orbits, the mandibles and their basal region, black. Antennce 

 immaculate black. TJiorax shining and smooth; the trans- 

 striate mesonotum nitidulous black, with a large central fulvous 



