202 ICHNEUMON ID^E. 



blackish, the teeth subobtuse, the upper being a little the longer ; 

 nil the palpi flavidous, cheeks almost wanting. Antenna sub- 

 tiliform, hardly longer than half the body, black with the scape 

 white, and basal flagellar joints rufescent beneath. Thorax black, 

 shining and somewhat short ; mesonotum obsoletely punctate 

 with no trace of notauli, a line beneath the radix and an 

 elongate one before it stramineous ; metathorax finely and not 

 closely punctate with griseous pubescence, lateral cost* alone 

 traceable ; spiracles nearly circular and directed upwards. 

 SciiteUwn, postscutellum entirely, and frenum very narrowly, 

 bright fhivous. Abdomen subparallel-sided, black, with the whole 

 of the first segment and the three following broadly in the centre 

 fulvous, anus white ; basal segment not longer than apically broad, 

 discally strongly punctate, centrally sulcate and elevated on either 

 side; the following segments (except at apex) evenly and some- 

 what strongly punctate, the second with small, and the next two 

 with large, though not convex, lateral tubercles ; terebra black 

 and of the same length as the abdomen, with the valvulae not 

 strongly pilose. Leys navous, with all tarsal claws infuscate and 

 basally lobate ; hind legs, except trochanters and base of tibiae, 

 fulvous ; calcaria of equal length and one-third of metatarsus. 

 Wings normal and hyaline ; radix and tegulae stramineous, costa 

 and stigma piceous ; areolet subsessile, broadly triangular and 

 emitting the recurrent nervure almost from its apex ; first re- 

 current of lower wings opposite and emitting the nervellus 

 distinctly below centre. 



Lenf/th 10 niillim. 



SIKKIM, iv.-vi. 1900 (Binyham, type) ; ASSAM ( W. F. Badyley}. 



Type in the British Museum. 



The Assam specimen, in the British Museum, has the second to 

 fourth abdominal segments but narrowly pale before their apices. 



140. Exeristes carinifrons, Cam. 



Pimpla carinifrons, Cameron,* Maiich. Mem. 1899, p. 172 ( $). 



$ . A handsome black species, with the scutellum and most of 

 the legs flavous, and the abdomen white-banded. Head black, 

 with the palpi stramineous; face strongly punctate, with the 

 epistoma obtusely carinate and centrally glabrous, pilosity white 

 and silky ; clypeus, except its strongly punctate base, smooth and 

 remarkably excavate ; frons broadly arid somewhat deeply concave, 

 apically glabrous, obscurely shagreened above and stoutly carinate 

 longitudinally in the centre; inner orbits distinctly margined; 

 mandibles basally strongly punctate. Antenna black, the scape 

 with long pale hairs ; flagellum densely clothed with short, stiff, 

 black pubescence. Thorax black throughout ; mesonotum minutely 

 punctate, with dense short infuscate pubescence; metathorax 

 broadly elevated centrally, its centre strongly trans-strigose and 

 the sides more closely and finely striate, the base glabrous and 



