174 ICHXEUMOXIDJE. 



though weak ; metapleurae very much more strongly punctate 

 than the mesopleurae ; spiracles small and subcircular. Scutellum 

 hardly convex, finely punctate throughout and immaculate. 

 Abdomen elongate-ovate and narrower in <$ , closely and distinctly 

 punctate, with the apices of the first six segments roundly 

 elevated, and the third to sixth laterally subtuberculate ; basal 

 segment subquadrate, punctate throughout, with somewhat strong 

 cariuae a little converging at the apex ; venter testaceous and 

 strongly plicate on its basal half ; terebra shorter than half the 

 abdomen (3 milliin.), with the pilose valvulae black and the spicula 

 stramineous, apieally acuminate and red. Legs fulvous, with the 

 anterior pairs paler ; hind tibiae stramineous, with their apices 

 broadly, and a dot before the base above, black ; hind tarsi except 

 at extreme base, and apices of their femora obsoletely, nigrescent : 

 all the claws small, curved and basally strongly lobate. Wim/s 

 hyaline and not broad ; costa and nervures piceous, stigma dark 

 ferruginous, radix and tegulae flavescent ; areolet triangular, emit- 

 ting the recurrent nervure from its apical third ; nervellus straight, 

 intercepting the slightly postfurcal recurrent nervure distinctly 

 a little above its centre. 



Length 10-12 millira. 



ASSAM ( W. F. Badtjley). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species is allied to E. graminellce, Holmg., though the 

 hind coxae are but obsoletely punctate, and to E. robustus, Mori., 

 from which the colour of the hind tibiae will distinguish it ; it 

 appears very distinct from E. erebus in the conformation of the 

 frons and coloration of the legs. I have drawn the above descrip- 

 tion from two pairs. 



117. Epiurus nursei. Cam. 



(?) Pimpla punctate, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xix, p. 2126 ( $ ). 

 P. nursei, Cameron, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii, 1906, 

 p. 283 (2). 



cJ 2 A black species with the legs, except anterior coxae, red, 

 and the terebra longer than the abdomen. Head posteriorly 

 buccate and as broad as the eyes ; occiput bordered, vertex 

 glabrous with scattered punctures ; frons evenly and not verv 

 closely punctate, with the scrobes densely transaoiculate and of 

 normal size ; face nitidulous, with sparse large punctures and fine 

 white pubescence ; epistoma convex ; clypeus truncately discrete 

 basally, rugulose, with the apex emarginate and rufescent ; man- 

 dibles subparallel-sided, centrally impressed, black, with the apical 

 teeth small and of equal length ; ligula and apex of palpi rufescent, 

 cheeks not elongate nor eyes emarginate. Antenna filiform, not 

 very slender nor longer than half the body, black, with the apices 

 rufescent and flagellar joints somewhat short. Thorax immaculate 

 and shining, coarsely and somewhat deeply punctate discally, more 



