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areolet and apically reflexed ; nervellus emitted from the curved 

 and very strongly postfurcal first recurrent of hind wings very 

 slightly below its junction with the median. 



Length 14 millini. 



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



Type 5 in Col. Nurse's collection, 3 in the Oxford Museum. 



Genus BANCHUS, F. 



Banchus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. 1798, p. 209. 

 Cidaphurus, Forster, Verb. pr. Kheinl. xxv, 1868, p. 159. 



GENOTYPE, Ichneumon volulatorius, L. 



Head shortly transverse, a little narrower than the thorax and 

 constricted behind the subreniform and always internally emar- 

 ginute eyes ; clypeus subdiscrete and apically emarginate ; 

 inandibular teeth obtuse and unequal ; maxillary palpi with the 

 fourth joint of 3 often strongly dilated, of $ a little incrassate. 

 Antennae somewhat slender, subfiliform, with the scape deeply 

 excised ; longer in 3 Thorax convex ; notauli elongate and, at 

 least posteriorly, entire ; metathorax short and scabrous with no 

 areae ; apophyses stout and sometimes connected by a central 

 carina; spiracles linear. Scutellum triangular and apically 

 obtuse, gibbous or convex, often with a more or less acuminate 

 discal spine. Abdomen sessile or subsessile, smooth and nitidu- 

 lous, longer and usually narrower than the thorax, dorsally 

 convex and laterally compressed especially in the $ ; basal 

 segment hardly broader apically, slightly canaliculate, with the 

 lateral tubercle before the centre ; anus of d obtuse, with seg- 

 ments five to seven very short, of $ with segments five to eight 

 usually elongately exserted ; terebra not or hardly exserted. Legs 

 elongate and not unusually stout, their tarsal claws pectinate. 

 Wings somewhat narrow, usually subfulvescent ; areolet always 

 entire, usually very large and irregularly subrhomboidal ; stigma 

 not small ; radial cell lanceolate with its lower side often much 

 curved. 



Range. India, Europe, Canada, United States, Brazil. 



"W". A. Schulz has examined the type of Banchus annulatus, !\, 

 described from India, and states that it is a Pompilus, and con- 

 specific with P. (Episyron) multipictus, Smith. 



Table of Species. 



1 (2) Scutellum with no trace of apical 



spine armillatus, sp. n., p. 254. 



2 (1) Scutellum with a very distinct 



apical spine. 



3 (4) Apical scutellar spine stout and 



straight flavomaculatus, Cam., p, 255. 



4 (3) Apical scutellar spine acuminate 



and deflexed nox, sp. n., p. 255. 



