176 ICHNEUMOXIDJE. 



with somewhat dense griseous pubescence and the notauli distinct 

 in front ; raetanotum irregularly punctate, centrally smoother 

 but with no area? ; spiracles circular. Scutellum immaculate and 

 subdeplanate. Abdomen black, evenly and somewhat strongly 

 punctate, with the apices of all the segments except the first 

 uitidulous and trans-strigose, a little elevated and laterally pro- 

 minent ; basal segment not longer than apically broad, the second 

 strongly impressed on either side of the centre at the base ; third 

 and fourth segments distinctly, second and fifth indistinctly, tuber- 

 culate in the centre on either side ; venter testaceous, with only 

 the basal segment plicate ; terebra slightly shorter than abdomen, 

 ferruginous, the valvulae with long pubescence. Legs deep red and 

 not elongate, with the hind tibiae and tarsi alone blackish and the 

 upper side of the former stramineous almost throughout ; tarsul 

 claws small and broadly lobate basally. Whigs ample, slightly 

 flavescent, with all the nervures except the costa pale ; radix, 

 teguiae and stigma pale testaceous ; areolet triangular, broader 

 than high, and emitting the strongly curved second recurrent 

 uervure from its apical fourth ; hind wings with first recurrent 

 exactly opposite and emitting nervellus from its centre. 



Length 9 millim. 



PUNJAB : Simla, x. 1906. 



Type in the Pusa collection. 



In the conformation of its terebra and wings, and in the colour 

 of the stigma, body, and legs, this species closely approaches Pimpla 

 ventricosa, Tschek, but the ocelli are not elevated upon a plateau, 

 the metanotal carin* are entirely wanting, and the abdomen i.s 

 more uneven, with the segmental apices broadly glabrous and more 

 prominent. 



119. Epiurus erebns, Cam. 



Pimpla erebus, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 184 ( $ ). 



$> . A black species. Head with the face closely punctate and 

 densely white-pilose ; epistoma carinate and triangularly foveate 

 basally ; clypeus semicircularly impressed at the base, apically 

 smooth, shining and obliquely impressed ; frons strongly and 

 transversely strigose centrally. Antenna; black. Thorax somewhat 

 dull, with short and dense recumbent pubescence ; mesonotum 

 transversely strigose basally ; mesopleurae strongly punctate, with 

 the apex glabrous above and striate below ; propleura finely 

 aciculate basally; metathorax finely trans-strigose at the base, 

 centrally strongly striate, with the apex broadly glabrous. Scu- 

 tellum elevated, glabrous and nitidulous, with sparse and elongate 

 white pilosity; postscutellura with large aud deep punctures. 

 Abdomen immaculate ; basal impression of first segment glabrous 

 and nitidulous, its sides coarsely and not very distinctly punctate 

 and the apx shallowly punctate ; the second obscurely punctate 

 and the remainder very finely and closely trans -reticulate; terebra 



