258 ICHNETIMONIDJ3. 



wanting. Scutellum black, punctate, somewhat nitidulous, convex 

 and simple. Abdomen dull red, with the basal segment entirely 

 and (he anus black, elongate-fusiform, with the first three seg- 

 ments distinctly punctate ; basal segment irregularly scabriculous, 

 twice as long as apically broad, subelevated discally near its base 

 and laterally straight, with the spiracles before its centre ; the 

 three following segments slightly elevated apically ; anus glabrous 

 and subcom pressed, with the hypopygium extending to the apex 

 but not produced ; terebra shorter than the basal segment, with 

 the stout spicula fulvous and the valvulae black. Legs slender and 

 somewhat elongate, dull red, with all the coxae and trochanters, 

 posterior tarsi, hind tibiae and apices of their femora, black ; tarsi 

 distinctly pectinate beneath, calcaria of unequal length. Wings 

 hyaline and not broad ; stigma black, tegulae piceous ; areolet 

 triangular and not small, emitting the broadly fenestrate second 

 recurrent nervure a little before its centre ; internal cubital some- 

 what sharply curved with no nervelet ; nervellus distinctly 

 postfurcal and intercepted below its centre. 



Lent/th 9 millim. 



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



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



Described from the unique type specimen. 



Genus EPONITES, Cam. 

 Epomtes, Cameron, Zeits. Hym.-Dip. 1905, p. 77. 

 GENOTYPE, E. nificornis, Cam. 



Frons broadly and deeply impressed transversely below the 

 widely separated ocelli to outer side of scrobes, and centrally 

 longitudinally sulcate between two compressed obtuse and flabel- 

 lattT horns just above and within the scrobes ; eyes internally 

 emarginate ; clypeus strongly transverse, basally curved, apically 

 truncate ; ligula short and spiniform ; mandibles stout and 

 parallel-sided, with the much larger upper tooth obliquely truncate 

 and the subobsolete lower one obtuse. Scape subcircular ; 

 flagellum stout, in $ hardly longer than the head and thorax and 

 in d 1 shorter than the body ; basal joint hardly twice as long as 

 broad, the remainder rapidly becoming transverse. Thorax stout 

 and convex, but little longer than high ; mesonotum distinctly 

 punctate, with no notauli ; metathorax very short and low, though 

 hardly narrower than mesothorax, evenly and somewhat deeply 

 punctate, with all the costae wanting and the spiracles linear. 

 Scutellum large, simple and flavous ; postscutellum sometimes 

 obsolete. Abdomen as in Banchus. Hind legs of normal length 

 and distinctly stout, with the tarsi somewhat short and their claws 

 obsoletely pectinate basally. Wings a little clouded, normal ; 

 areolet large, not rhomboidal, triangular and internally produced ; 

 upper basal emitted from the median nervure distinctly before the 

 lower basal ; nervellus emitted from the strongly postfurcal first 



