300 ICHNEUMON! l>.i:. 



214. Polyclistus erythropus, t'i////. 



Exochus erythroptu, Cameron,* .luurn. Bombay Nat. Ilist. Soc. 



1902, p. 4l>3 ( 2 ) 



$ . A shining black species, with only the legs, mouth 

 and scape pale. Head narrower than thorax and abruptly 

 constricted behind the internally 

 slightly emarginate eyes ; occiput 

 abruptly sloping and a little concave; 

 frons finely punctulate, centrally 

 convex, with no carinae; face strongly 

 protuberant, evenly convex and finely 

 punctate, red beneath the scrobes 

 and not discrete from the apically 

 ally! imniarginate and truncate clj'peus ; 



mandibles weak, rufescent, with their 

 apices hardly darker, palpi tlavescent. 

 73 Antenna? somewhat shorter than the 



Piilijdistm erythropus, Cam. body, setaceous, with the flagellar 

 joints apically subnodulous, black, 



with the scape entirely testaceous. Thorax stout and immaculate 

 black; mesonotum distinctly and not very finely punctate and 

 pilose, with notauli elongate ; metanotum obsoletely punctate, 

 with complete areso ; basal area minute and subcircular ; areola 

 parallel-sided, twice as long as broad, apically rectangular and 

 basally curved, emitting costulae a little before its centre ; petiolar 

 urea subvertical, entire and basally strong; spiracles elongate and 

 not small. Scutellum finely punctate and immaculate. Abdomen 

 nitidulous, punctate and pilose throughout ; two basal segments 

 laterally margined, the first laterally a little explanate throughout, 

 with the disc bicarinate to its centre ; venter piceous, terebra, 

 slightly exserted. Legs entirely testaceous, with only the claws 

 and pulvilli irifuscate ; intermediate calcaria equal, hind ones 

 unequal. Winys hyaline and not broad; areolet wanting ; radix 

 and teguloe testaceous, stigma piceous ; basal nervure hardly 

 continuous ; nervellus nearly antefurcal and intercepted near its 

 lower angle. 



Length 6 millim. 



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

 Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



The only example I have seen, besides the type, is in the 

 Oxford Museum ; it is labelled " India, Boys," and is remarkable 

 in having a well-defined areolet in the left wing and no trace of 

 one in the right. 



Genus TRICLISTUS, font. 

 Tridistus, Forster, Verb. pr. Rheinl. 1868, p. 161. 

 GENOTYPE, Exochus podagricus, Grav. 



Head more or less strongly buccate, with the frous impressed 

 on either side and in the centre carinate between the antenna?, 



