302 



ICUNEUMOMU.E. 



large ovate spiracles distinct. Scutellum black, subdeplanate, 

 sparsely punctate and with brown hairs, with no lateral margin. 

 Abdomen bright brick-red, cylindrical, subdeplanate and a little 

 longer than head and thorax, nitidulous and somewhat closely 



Sunctate, with fulvescent hairs ; basal segment paler, gradually 

 ilated throughout, not half as long again as apically broad, with 

 its apically glabrous disc weakly bicarinate from base to centre ; 

 terebra not exserted. Legs very stout and luteous, with the hind 

 femora red, their tibiae apically and (probably) the whole hind 

 tarsi black. Wings ample, with the radix and tegulae flavescent, 

 stigma piceous ; areolet entire, oblique and petiolate ; basal nervure 

 strongly sinuate and elongately merged in the median. 



Length 7^ millim. 



BURMA: "Karen Hills, 3000-3700 ft. (L. Fed}. 



Type in the Genoa Civic Museum. 



The abdominal colour is distinctive. I have seen only a single 

 specimen. 



216. Triclistus aitkeni, Cam. (emend.). 



Exochus aitkini, Cainerou,* Manch. Mem. 1897, p. 31 (tf). 



A black species, with the legs, except the hind coxae and tarsi, 

 stramineous. Head nitidulous and closely covered with short 

 black hairs ; face closely and somewhat strongly punctate above, 



frons semicircularly canali- 

 culate beyond the ocelli ; 

 palpi flavescent, and man- 

 dibles piceous before their 

 apices. Antennce with 

 short infuscate pubescence 

 and the flagellum, especially 

 basally, piceous. Thorax 

 with sparse inFusoate pub- 

 escence, pleurae glabrous 

 and nitidulous ; metanotuin 

 fully areated, the areola 

 slightly longer than broad, 

 dilated to shortly beyond 

 its centre and thence 

 narrowed to the truncate 

 apex; metapleurae apically 

 shagreeued and sinuately 

 carinate above the spiracles. Abdomen with the first segment 

 basally depressed, the depression margined, and the margin con- 

 tinued shortly beyond it as blunt keels, apically obscurely 

 punctured. Legs stramineous, with the hind coxae and tarsi 

 black. Wings hyaline, with the stigma infuscate ; areolet minute, 

 elougately petiolate and not much broader than the submarginal 



Fig. 79. 

 Triclistus aitkeni, Cam. 



