250 ICHXEUMONIDJE. 



as the second. TJiorax stout and black, with the mesonotum 

 irregularly and obsoletely punctate, subglabrous ; metathorax with 

 no costa3, basally impressed in the centre ; petiolar area short and 

 subconcave, spiracles linear. Scutellum black, a little convex, with 

 distinct punctures. Abdomen glabrous, nitidulous, red, with the 

 first segment basally and anus from apex of fourth black ; basal 

 segment but; slightly longer than apically broad, discally impressed 

 in the centre, impunctate, and gradually dilated throughout; 

 terebra stout and black, somewhat shorter than the basal segment. 

 Leys elongate and red, with all the coxae, the anterior trochanters, 

 hind ones basally, their tarsi, and basal half of their externally 

 spinose tibiae, black ; hind calcaria strongly unequal. Wings 

 obscurely siliceous, especially beyond the centre ; radix and tegulae 

 ochreous, costa and nervures infuscate, stigma pale fulvous; areo- 

 let rhomboidal, subpetiolate, not higher than broad and emitting 

 the strongly sinuate and broadly bifenestrate recurrent uervure 

 from its centre ; radius distinctly curved above the areolet ; 

 internal cubital broadly pellucid, with the nervelet elongate ; 

 nervellus emitted from the curved and very strongly postfurcal 

 first recurrent nerrure of hind wings very slightly below its 

 junction with the median. 



Lenytli 11 millim. 



BALUCHISTAX : Quetta, v. 03 (Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



This species resembles E. Icevigator, Vill., in its general con- 

 formation and colour, but the antennae are much longer and the 

 petiolar area ill-defined ; in size, antennal conformation, the 

 structure of the legs and wings, it exactly agrees with E. for- 

 nicator, F., of which it may be a variety, though lacking the 

 metanotal costae. 



Col. Nurse has kindly allowed me to draw the above description 

 from the unique type. 



176. Exetastes fornicator, F. 



Ichneumon fornicator, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. i, p. 432 ( 2 ). 



Banchus fornicator, Fabricius, Piez. 1804, p. 827 (). 



Exetastes fornicator, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. iii, 1829, p. 404 ; 

 Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, no. 8, p. 160; Vollenhoven, 

 Pinac. pi. xvii, fiar. 2 ; Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xxii, 1897, p. 2415 



Tryphonforntcfitor, Zetterstedt, Ins. Lapp. 1840, p. 386. 



c? $ . A large, stout, black species, with often clouded wings 

 and elongate unicolorous antennae. Head somewhat broad behind 

 the eyes, with fulvescent pilosity ; frons very slightly impressed 

 and punctate ; face flat and distinctly punctate ; mouth produced, 

 with the apex of the shagreened clypeus deflexed throughout ; 

 mandibles subparallel-sided, with the teeth of equal length. An- 

 tenna filiform, apically attenuate, those of rf as long as the body, 



