ITOPLECTIS. 171 



of this species (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1902, p. 728) ; and a full 

 list of its hosts will be found in my Ichneumons of Britain (iii, 

 p. 106), which goes to show that its parasitism is distributed 

 among the Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, an-d phytophagous Hyrneno- 

 ptera, though in the case of Chapman's Spanish individuals it 

 appears to have been hyperparasitic through an Ophionid Ich- 

 neumon upon one of the ZYGJENIDJE. A small female in the 

 British Musuem was bred at Simla, on 7th July 1901, by Stebbiug 

 from Eucosma stebbingi, Wlsm. 



114. Itoplectis orientalis, nom. nov. 



Pimpla viclua, Cainerou (ncc Walsh), Manch. Mem. 1809, p. 180 



W). 



c? . A black species with dense white pubescence, the legs 

 mainly red and the hind tibiae white-banded. " Face and clypeus 

 thickly covered with long, white hair; the front and vertex 

 shining, impunctate, almost glabrous ; the maxillary palpi are 

 white ; the labial fuscous. Antennas black, the flagelluni covered 

 with a white down ; the scape closely punctured, covered with 

 longish, pale hairs. Mesonotum shining, obscurely punctured, as 

 is also the scutellum ; but the sides below the latter are strongly 

 punctured ; median segment [metathorax] coarsely, rugosely 

 punctured, except the base and the apex in the middle ; thickly 

 covered with longisb, fuscous hair ; the lower part of the pro- 

 pleurae behind strongly longitudinally striated ; the mesopleurae 

 obscurely punctured, covered with longish, soft, white hair ; the 

 metapleursB coarsely punctured, more closely and coarsely on the 

 lower part. Abdomen entirely black ; closely and coarsely punc- 

 tured ; the posterior segments with the puncturing weaker, and 

 densely covered with long, white pubescence. All the coxae are 

 black, and thickly covered with white hair ; the trochanters are 

 black at the base ; the hinder tibiae and tarsi black, thickly covered 

 with white hair ; near the base of the tibiae is a white band, which 

 extends to shortly beyond the middle ; the calcaria are white ; all 

 the femora, with the anterior tibiae and tarsi, red. Wings hyaline, 

 with the stigma and nervures black ; areolet laterally subcoal- 

 escent above ; the recurrent nervure is received near the apical 

 third of the cellule. 



" Length 8 mm." 



ASSAM : Khast Hills (Roihney}. 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



The oft-repeated \vhite pubescence reminds one of the genus 

 Stilbops, but nothing is said of the metathoracic costae, broad 

 stigma or apically acuminate face, and one must consequently 

 assume it to appertain to the subgenus Itoplectis, though the 

 conformation of the spiracles and claws is not indicated. 



