320 ICHNEUMONID.E. 



distinctly longer than the body, very slender and filiform, 

 with the joints cylindrical, hlack, with scape entirely ferru- 



ginous. Thorax dull and 

 very finely punctate, with 

 the notauli obsolete ; meta- 

 notum pilose, with com- 

 plete areae ; basal area small, 

 areola large and laterally 

 rounded, with its apex trun- 

 cate and central costulae 

 strong, petiolar area short 

 and transverse ; spiracles 

 small and circular, apophy- 

 ses wanting. Scutellum 

 normal and black. Abdomen 

 petiolate, fusiform, broadest 

 in centre, obsoletely punc- 



tulate, black, with the apical 

 F,g. 87.-Hy P ocryptus c in gnlator, Mori. ' P 



apices of the second and 



fourth segments dull red ; central segments transverse ; first seg- 

 ment dilated to the distinct and central spiracles, thence parallel- 

 sided and about as long as the breadth of the truncate apex, disc 

 centrally subsulcate, with no carina>, sides strongly margined from 

 the spiracles ; anus somewhat strongly compressed and hardly 

 reaching the apex of the slender terebra. Legs elongate, very 

 slender, red, with hind tarsi and apices of their tibiae infuscate ; 

 hind calcaria white. Wings very ample, hyaline ; stigma piceous 

 and somewhat broad ; tegulaa and radix rufescent ; areolet trian- 

 gular and subsessile, emitting the recurrent nervure from its 

 centre ; nervellus postfurcal and intercepted at its centre. 



Length 6 millini. 



BEXGAL : Pusa, iii. 06. 



Type in the Pusa collection. 



The type was captured on cauliflower leaves. 



Genus EURYPROCTUS, Holmg. 



Eurym-octtts, Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Ilandl. 1855, p. 109. 

 Fovaya, Cameron, Zeits. Hym.-Dip. 1903, p. 341. 



GEXOTYPE, Ichneumon nemoralis, Fourc. 



Head transverse and not unusually buccate posteriorly, with 

 the vertex einarginate ; clypeus distinctly discrete basallv, and 

 not trans-impressed apically ; mandibles subequal in length ; eyes 

 entire : face not strongly constricted apically, nor cheeks entirely 

 glabrous. Antennas white-banded, slender, filiform and nearly as 

 long as the body ; fiagellum not incrassate. Thorax somewhat 

 atout ; mesonotuin not distinctly punctate ; metanotal areae very 



