272 ICHNEUMONIDjE. 



tate ; basal segment centrally elevated and bicarinate ; second and 

 fifth segments obsoletely, third and fourth more distinctly, carinate 

 discally ; lateral marks on first and fourth segments, apices of second 

 and third, ferruginous ; anus distinctly purplish and with short 

 black hairs. Legs black ; anterior tibiae and tarsi below, and the 

 hind femora, red ; calcaria white, with the front ones testaceous. 

 Wings hyaline and strongly iridescent, with the radial cell and 

 apical half of the external cubital inf innate ; areolet large, emitting 

 the second recurrent nemire from its centre, with its sides not 

 coalescent above. 



Length 14 mi Him. 



SIKKIM : Takvar, Darjiling, 4000 ft. (Col. Bingham). 



UJ2. Cultrarius areolatus, Cam. 



Cultrarius areolattis, Cameron, Ann. Nat. Hist, xix, 1907, p. 177 



(?) 



5 . A black species, the head and scutellum with flavous 

 markings, and the wings apically infumate. 



Length 10 millim. 



SIKKIM. 



This species is said by its author to resemble C. purpureotinctus 

 so closely as to need no detailed description. Therefrom it may at 

 once be known by the metanotal areola not being longer than broad, 

 gently and evenly rounded to the subcircular and not truncate apex ; 

 the lateral areae not punctate; the scutellum partly flavous and 

 centrally deeply sulcate ; the petiolar carinae apically curved and coa- 

 lescent, not parallel; the areolet shortly petiolate above and the hind 

 femora black. Cameron adds (Joe. cit. p. 178) that " the coloration 

 is the same otherwise, except that the purple tint on the abdomen 

 commences on the second segment, that the scutellar keels are 

 yellow, and that the lines on the second to fifth abdominal seg- 

 ments are narrower, of more uniform thickness, and more yellowish 

 in colour. The puncturation is pretty much the same ; on the 

 second segment of the abdomen it is stronger and more irregular, 

 that segment, too, being shorter compared with the width ; the 

 keels on the second to fourth segments are narrow, but distinct. 

 The calcaria are all whitish. The abdomen is shorter, too, com- 

 pared with the thorax." 



Tribe SPHINCTIDES. 



Face deplanate; antennae stout and filiform. Metathorax 

 hort, subvertical, with the areola obsolete or strongly transverse, 

 and the petiolar area very large ; spiracles minute and circular. 

 Scutellura large, deplanate, strongly margined and sometimes 

 hardly separated from the mesonotuin. Abdomen dull and 

 fltrongly punctate, elongately petiolate with prominent spiracles 

 in centre of basal segment ; second segment not discally carinate. 

 Legs slender ; hind tibiae unicalcarate, the intermediate bicalcarate. 

 Areolet sessile, triangular and not large, its inner nemire oblique 



