240 ICHXEUMOXID^E. 



and the mesonotum (except large anterior hamate marks coalescing 

 vith a broad discal spot) black. Hind coxae internally black and 

 externally ferruginous below. Abdomen clear red, with apices of 

 all the segments narrowly, and base and apex of the first some- 

 what broadly, flavous. Hind femora, tibi and tarsi fulvous 

 throughout, their trochanters basally blackish. Wings as in 

 the last described species. 



Length 14 millim. 



BALUCHISTAX : Quetta, vii. 02 (Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



Var. apicipennis, Cam. 



. Differs in nothing but the colour and rather smaller size. 

 The meso- and meta-thoraces are entirely black, with the callosities 

 below the radices and large triangular marks before them, flavous ; 

 the base and apex of the first abdominal segment are more 

 narrowly flavous, and the base of the three following segments is 

 centrally black. 



Length 11 millim. 



PUNJAB : Simla, viii. 98 ( Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



So similar does this female appear to S. zanthorius that I should 

 certainly have synonymised them as mere colour varieties, were 

 it not that the terebra is distinctly longer and the flagellum is 

 not compresso-dilated beyond its centre. 



Genus LAMPRONOTA, Hal* 

 Lampronota, Holiday, Ann. Nat. Hist, ii, 1839, p. 120. 



GENOTYPE, Ichneumon accusntor, F. 



Clypeus discrete and apically subtruncate ; frons convex and 

 subglabrous. Antenna? elongate, filiform and somewhat slender ; 

 flagellar joints not discrete, the first usually elongate, with 

 the fourth and either the third or fifth externally excised. 

 Thorax stout, gibbulous-cylindrical ; mesonotum anteriorly ele- 

 vated and perpendicular, notauli very deeply impressed ; meta- 

 thoracic areola coalescing with basal area, its longitudinal cost 

 straight, parallel and entire from base to apex ; lateral costae 

 distinct ; petiolar area short ; spiracles oblong and transverse. 

 Abdomen subsessile, evenly convex ; basal segment usually dull, 

 scabriculous and convex ; anus subcompressed and laterally clavate, 

 of $ with the venter apically cleft, the vahuJas obtuse" and the 

 terebra about the length of the abdomen. Hind legs distinctly a 



* The name Lampronota was, as is truly stated by Dalla Torre (Cat. Hym. 

 iii, p. 014), brought forward by Curtis in 1^32 (Brit. Ent., fol. p. 107), but, as 

 there directly expressed, purely as synonymic with Lissonota, Grav. (18^9); 

 consequently Hahday's later name must eland. 



