270 ICHNETJMONIDJE. 



Wroughton) ; MADRAS: Bangalore (Ind. Mus.); BURMA: Bhamo 

 (L. Fea). HONG-KONG (Brit. Mus.). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



This species is readily recognised by its rufescent head, thorax 

 and legs, as well as by the conspicuous apical alar mark; its 

 author remarks that the thorax is more elongate, especially in 

 front of the tegula?, than it is in the European species. 



Genus CULTRARIUS, Davis. 



Cultrarius, Davis, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 197. 

 GEXOTYPE, Metopius rileyi, Marlatt. 



Head somewhat small, much narrower and discally lower than 

 the thorax ; second joint of maxillary palpi not strongly incrassate. 

 Antennae basally constricted and apically " strongly subclavate." 

 Thorax subspherical, on account of the broad meso- and short 

 pro- and nieta-thoraces ; metathorax depressed and flat "to fit 

 the basal segment of the abdomen; without distinct areolet." 

 Basal abdominal segment short and wedge-shaped, with the front 

 upper portion broad, deplanate and subconcave ; ovipositor large, 

 geniculate, and longer than the body. 



Range. United States, Sikkim. 



This genus is said to agree with Metopius in having a distinct 

 facial shield and the intermediate tibiae unicalcarate ; but to differ 

 in its small head, wedge-shaped and discaily flat basal segment, and 

 in the large, elongate, and geniculate tenebra. The head is much 

 narrower than the thorax, the antennae apically incrassate, the 

 abdomen fusiform and apically attenuate, and the nervellus of the 

 hind wing geniculate above its centre. It was founded upon a 

 North American species from Kansas and Dakota. Cameron has 

 described three Indian males, which are quite unknown to me. 



Table of Species. 



1 (2) Wings entirely infumate ; abdomen -with 



flavous markings jtavobalteatun, Cam., 



2 (1) Wings only apically infumate ; abdomen [p. 270. 



with red markings. 



3 (4) Areola elongate ; scutellum black purpureotinctu8,Cfun., 



4 (3) Areola transverse ; scutellum with flavous [p. 271. 



markings areolatus, Cam., p. 272. 



190. Cultrarius flavobalteatns, Cam. 



Cultrarius flavobalteutus, Cameron, Zeits. Hym.-Dip. 1903, p. 342 

 ((*) 



<J . A black species, with the abdomen banded with violaceous 

 and flavous, and the wings infuscate. Head with clypeus flavous- 

 margined and closely punctate, apically broadly rounded and 

 depressed, laterally broadly margined and, like its base, flavous ; 



