314 ICHNECMONIDJE. 



discrete postscutellurn, flavous. Abdomen very strongly convex 

 and quite ovate, dull, closely and evenly punctate throughout, 



black, with all the sides, 

 base of the first and apices 

 of the first three segments, 

 testaceous ; remaining seg- 

 ments entirely concealed 

 beneath the laterally emar- 

 ginate carapace of the third ; 

 basal segment laterally paral- 

 lel-sided to centre and thence 

 strongly dilated through the 

 circular spiracles to the very 



T I a broad apex, discally bicari- 



1, , nate throughout and late- 



rally margined to the spi- 

 \ racles ; venter entirely con- 



cave, testaceous and centrally 

 Fig. 84. Ci-yptodema anormis, Mori. plicate ; ventral valvulae large, 



piceous and emarginate sub- 



apically beneath, cerci distinct. Legs normal and somewhat slender, 

 testaceous, with the base of the intermediate and whole of the 

 liind coxse, hind femora, apical half of their tibiae, base of their 

 tarsi, their calcaria and all the claws, black. Winys siliceous and 

 ample ; tegula? flavous, radix testaceous, stigma blackish ; basal 

 nervure subcontinuous ; second recurrent broadly fenestrate, and 

 intercepting beyond the strongly curved inner nervure of the 

 wanting areolet, beyond which the radius is abruptly sinuate. 

 Length 10 millim. 



BENGAL : Buxar Duars, v. 07 (D. Noivrnjee). 

 Type in the Pusa collection. 



1 have seen only a single example of this very remarkable 

 species. 



Genus PERILISSUS, Holmrj. 



Penlissus, Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1854, p. 61 ; id. op. cii. ISoo, 

 p. 121. 



GENOTYPE, P.flicornis, Grav. 



Head strongly baccate or subbuccate, with the temples broad 

 and vertex subemarginate ; clypeus usually more or less distinctly 

 discrete basally ; mandibular teeth of unequal length. Antennae 

 setaceous and often longer than the body, with the scape obovate 

 and the basal flagellar joint always longer than the second. Upper 

 metanotal arese nearly always complete. Abdomen usually dis- 

 tinctly petiolate, oblong-ovate or subfusiforin, laterally a little 

 compressed in towards the apex ; first segment either gradually 

 narrowed basally or slightly constricted before the spiracles, with 

 the discal carinae and sulcus obsolete or wanting and the spiracles 

 a little before its centre ; terebra straight. Legs slender, with 

 tarsal claws simple ; hind calcaria of equal length and shorter than 



