ECHTJIROMORPHA. 103 



except for a fuscous violaceous cloud in the apex of the radial aud 

 the top of the cubital cellules ; the areolet oblique ; the transverse 

 cubital nervnres imite at the top, but do not form a petiole ; 

 the recurrent nervure is received shortly before the middle of the 

 cellule. 



"Length 9 millim. 



" This species looks like a small form of the preceding (P. [sic~] 

 ornatipes), with which it agrees closely in general coloration ; but 

 it is, I believe, quite distinct. Apart from the size, it differs in 

 having the thorax quite smooth, without any punctures ; the 

 areoiet is not petiolated ; the abdominal depressions are very 

 indistinct ; the hinder coxae not black marked with yellow, but 

 yellow and fulvous marked with black above and at the side." 



I quote Cameron's description of this species, which I do not 

 know, if the thorax is really impunctate. Though the depth of 

 the thoracic punctation is always proportionately diminished in 

 smaller specimens of Echthromorpha, I have seen none quite 

 glabrous. His other distinctions are, of course, prone to some 

 variability throughout the ICHNEUMON ID M. Mr. T. Bainbrigge 

 Fletcher has given me a J , with punct uration only at the base 

 of the metanotum, captured at Madulsima, in Ceylon, on 22nd 

 May 1908. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Eotlmey}. 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



56. Echthromorpha intricatoria, F. 



Cri/ptitsintric(ttomts,~FiibYici\is ) Piez. 1804, p. 77 ($) ; Trentepohl. 



Isis, 1829, p. 847 ($). 

 Ichneumon intricatorius, Thunberg, Mem. Ac. Sc. St. Petersb. 1822, 



p. 278; id., op. cit. 1824, p. 356. 

 Pimpla excavata, Guillen, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1841, p. 302 ; 



id., Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 322 ( $ ). 



Pimpla intricator, Erichson, Arch. Naturg. viii, 1841, p. 254. 

 Pimpla intricatoria, Brullri, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym. iv, p. 90 (tf 9). 

 Echthromorpha intricutoria, Krieger, Sitz. Nat. Ges. Leipzig, 1899, 



p.69(rf$). 



cJ 9 A black species with only small, well-defined, bright 

 flavous markings and red legs. Head black, with the outer and 

 frontal orbits narrowly, the whole face and mouth in $ red and 

 in d 1 flavescent; frons strongly concave. Antennae longer than 

 the body, fulvous, with the flagellum (except basally) black above ; 

 joints apically nodose. Thorax black, with small and bright 

 iflavous dots on either side before the radices, in the centre and at 

 the apex of the mesopleurse, above the coxal areae, and on the 

 very distinct but obtuse apophyses ; metathorax with no arese, 

 somewhat strongly trans-strigose throughout to near the glabrous 

 apex ; spiracles large and elongate. ScuteUum and postscutellum 

 convex, the former sparsely punctate, the latter glabrous and 

 entirely flavous ; scutellar carinse centrally concolorous. Abdomen 

 black and not strongly nitidulous, with a somewhat small and 



