218 ICHXEUMOX1D.E. 



apex with dense silvery pubescence. Scutellum flavous. Abdomen 

 with the two basal, and the basal two-thirds of the third, segments 

 closely and strongly punctate ; the apical ones shining and very 

 smooth ; the apices of the three basal segments broadly, of the 

 fifth narrowly in the centre and the whole of the sixth, with base 

 of the first broadly and the cerci, flavous ; terebra one-fourth the 

 length of the body (2 millira.). Legs red, the anterior paler and 

 f ulvescent with their coxa3 and trochanters flavous ; apices of the 

 hind coxae, femora and tibia?, together with the base of the 

 flavescent tarsi, black. Wings clear hyaline, with the nervures 

 and stigma black, and tegulae flavous ; second recurrent nervure 

 broadly fenestrated and emitted near the apex of the areolet. 



Leivjili S inillim. 



SIKKIM (Bhigham). 



Unknown to me. 



Genus PHYTODIJETUS, G'rav. (emend.). 

 Phytodietus, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. ii, 1829, p. 929. 



GENOTYPE, P. corypJweus, Grav. 



Body smooth and graceful, not strongly and elongately pilose. 

 Antenua3 as long as body, more or less slender, with the apical 

 joints cylindrical and not discrete. Xotauli often anteriorly 

 distinct, metathoracic costa3 entirely wanting, raetapleur* longi- 

 tudinally subsulcate near the quite circular spiracles. Scutellum 

 somewhat convex and usually pale-marked ; frenum pale. Abdo- 

 men smooth, with a shining bloom and not punctate, often with 

 tlie segments pale-margined ; anus usually subcom pressed ; hypo- 

 pygium retracted ; basal segment convex and not carinate ; 

 *piracles of the second close to the lateral margin ; terebra longer 

 than half, but not the whole, abdomen. Tibiae spinulose, with 

 their calcaria elongate ; tarsal claws very closely and distinctly 

 pectinate. Areolet broad and obliquely triangular, emitting the 

 recurrent nervure from hardly before its apex ; nervellus inter- 

 cepting below the centre, sometimes at the lower angle. 



Rawje. Europe, Central America, Trinidad, Canada, Sikkim, 

 Ceylon. 



Gravenhorst placed this genus in the CEYPTIX^, along with 

 Mesoclwrus and Plectiscus, which are now regarded as OPUIOXIXJE. 

 But his genus has been considerably subdivided by subsequent 

 authors and only three of the original twelve species and the 

 anomalous P. corvinus are now retained therein. Their subf usiform 

 abdomen and thorax, attenuated basal segment and slender legs 

 certainly ally them with the CRYPTIX^, while the occasionally 

 subcompressed anus resembles that of the BAXCHIDES ; they are, 

 in particular, very liable to be mistaken for the Tryphonine 

 Jlltsoleius, from which it is difficult to instance any male distinction, 

 though the females are rendered obvious by their exserted terebra. 



