228 ICHNEUMOXID-T:. 



closely and strongly trans-reticulate, much more strongly so at its 

 apex ; a large central mark on the sparsely punctate metapleuno 

 with " its base straight, rounded above, the apex narrower, rounded, 

 the middle below incised, the base of the incision obliquely sloped, 

 longer than the apex, which has a straight up and down slope," 

 ilavous. Sctttellum flavous, closely and somewhat strongly punctate. 

 Abdomen black, with the basal half of the first two segments, the 

 third with the exception of a central nigrescent fascia, and the 

 apices of all the following broadly, flavous ; apical half of the first 

 segment distinctly stouter than the basal, with a triangular basal 

 incision in its black coloration. Leys fulvescent flavous, with only 

 the apical half of the hind coxae black above. Winys with the 

 areolet triangular and sessile ; its recurrent nervure broadly fenes- 

 trate below. 



Letiyth 8 millim. 



SIKKIM (Col. Binyham}. 



This species " may be known from L. spilopus by the broader 

 band on the inner orbits, it touching the ocelli, which is not the 

 case with L. spil(pus ; by the base of the mark on the mesopleune 

 being gradually narrowed from the middle, it being in L. spit-opus- 

 abruptly dilated before the middle and by the incision on the mark 

 on the metapleurae being narrower, deeper and oblique '' (Cameron, 

 /. c.) ; the areolet is sessile in the present species. Unknown 

 to me. 



158. Lissonota minuenta, sp. n. 



$ . A black and somewhat profusely flavous-marked species, 

 with the legs fulvous and abdomen tricoloured ; terebra longer 

 than half the body. 



Lenylh 7 millim. 



SIKKIM : Darjiling, 0000 ft., ix. OS (E. Brunettl). 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



Extremely similar to L. bingJiami, with which I should have 

 merged it were not the immaculate antennae and comparative 

 terebral length sufficiently constant characters ; the present 

 female may be known by the immaculate black antennae ; 

 black metathorax, with only the apices of the pleurae flavous ; 

 mesosternum immaculate black and- the mesopleurae flavous only 

 below ; abdomen with base and apex of the first three segments 

 red, the extreme apex of the third and of all the following flavous ; 

 terebra exactly as long as the abdomen (4 millim.) and longer than 

 half the body ; legs fulvous, with their base flavous, and the hind 

 tibiae alone subinfuscate apically ; hind coxae fulvous, with their 

 disc flavous : areolet distinctly petiolate, emitting the recurrent 

 nervure from its apex. It is allied in coloration to L. lineatu, 

 Grav., but the radial nervure is not sinuate above the petiolate 

 areolet and the terebra is proportionately much shorter. 



