264 ICHXEUMONID.. 



Head black with the clypeus testaceous, the mandibles (except 

 apically) and palpi flavous ; face strongly and evenly punctate, 

 with dense long white pilosity ; frons and vertex superficially punc- 

 tate, with dense long brown 

 pilosity, longer behind ocelli, 

 which are preceded by a tri- 

 angular impression. Antenna 

 stout and fulvescent ; scape 

 pilose, and flavescent beneath; 

 flagellum densely black pubes- 

 cent, becoming slightly in- 

 crassate apically. Thorax with 

 propleurse nitidulous, black and 

 broadly rufescent above ; meso- 

 notum nitidulous and with short 

 Fig. 66 Scallama trilineata, Cam. w hite hairs, ferruginous, with 

 a broad central longitudinal 



stripe and the apices of the lateral lobes black ; tnesopleurar ob- 

 scurely punctate, with long white pilosity, black, with a central 

 red fascia ; metanotum evenly convex throughout, smooth and 

 nitidulous, with long white hairs, basally blackish and deeply 

 impressed in the centre of both base and apex. Scutellum 

 glabrous and nitidulous, with dense and long infuscate pilosity, 

 basally black and deeply impressed. Abdomen above and below 

 fulvescent, with the very smooth and shining first segment 

 (except apically), the second entirely, the third (except laterally;, 

 and more or less of the remainder, black. Legs short and stout, 

 with the basally black femora incrassate ; the tibia? and tarsi 

 stout, with the anterior flavescent, hind ones dark red and the 

 posterior apically black ; calcaria rufescent, hind tarsi and apices 

 of their claws black. Wings more or less distinctly fulvescent- 

 hyaline, with the costa and nervures paler, and the stigma 

 red. 



Length 11-12 millim. 



The extent of nigrescence varies throughout, as does the density 

 of alar fulvescence. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills (G. A. J. Rothney*). 

 Type in the Oxford Museum. 



I have seen an insect in the British Museum labelled " ScaUama 

 fortipes, Cam . ; type; Khasia." The latter I presume to be a 

 manuscript name, since I can find no mention of it in the literature ; 

 the specimen agrees with the above description fairly accurately. 



185. Scallama crassipes, Cam. 



Scallama crassipes, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 219 (#). 



<? . Larger than the preceding, with the thorax immaculate 

 black and the areolet wanting. Head black ; the strongly punctate 

 face with dense and elongate fulvous, occiput with shorter black, 

 pilosity. Antennae densely and very shortly pilose, rufescent. 



