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222. Hyperacmus crassicornis, Grav. 



Exochus crassicornis, Gravenhorst, Ich. Eur. ii, 1829, p. 347 ($). 

 Hyperacmus crassicornis, Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1855, p. 322 



(2); Briachke, Schr. phys. okon. Ges. Konigsb. 1871, p. 101; 



Brischke, Schr. Nat. Ges. Danz. 1878, p. 108 ; Thomson, Deut. 



Ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 199 (rf $). 

 Nothaima bicarinata, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1902, p. 428 (cJ). 



J 5 . A stroagly shining black species, with the palpi pale, the 

 mouth, underside of antennae and most of the legs castaneous. 

 Head somewhat tnmidulous, with 

 the vertex emarginate and the 

 strongly protuberant face smooth 

 or but sparsely punctulate ; frous 

 somewhat convex, punctulate, and 

 centrally canaliculate. Thorax 

 stout and deplanate; metathorax 

 scabriculoiis,withtwolongitiulinal 

 discal carinee, extending from base 

 to apex ; spiracles not small, 

 longer than broad but not paral- 

 lel-sided. Scutellum subglabrous 

 and nitidulous, immaculate. Ab- 

 domen black or sometimes mainly 

 Fig. 82. badious, of $ hardly and in. <j 



Hyper acmus crassicornis, Grew, distinctly longer than head and 

 thorax ; basal segment laterally 



nearly straight, dorsally scabriculous, with weak basal carinse 

 extending to the spiracles, which are a little before the centre 

 and not prominent ; remaining segments strongly shining. Legs 

 piceous or castaneous, with the anterior pairs paler, especially 

 in c? ; all the coxae and the hind trochanters black. Wings 

 hyaline, with the tegulse, radius, and stigma piceous ; radial cell 

 somewhat narrow. 

 Length 7-9 mi Him. 



PUNJAB, Simla (Col. Nurse); UNITED PROVINCES: Mussoori, 

 7000 ft., vi. 05 (E. BrunettiInd. Mus.). EUROPE. 



Type in the Breslau Museum ; the type of Cameron's species 

 in Col. Nurse's collection. 



An examination of Cameron's type has enabled me unhesitatingly 

 to synonymise it with Gravenhorst's species, which has been known 

 in Central Europe since 1829, though apparently rare both there 

 and in Sweden. It was not recognised as British till 1882 ; and 

 its occurrence in the Himalayas indicates how little we yet know 

 of the distribution of the ICHNEUMONID.E. 



