332 ICHKEUMONIDJE. 



claws distinctly pectinate basally. Wings with the nreolet 

 present. 



llanye, Palaearctic and Nearctic Regions. 



The genus under this name, doubtfully synonymised by hiai 

 with that previously erected by Hartig, was brought forward by 

 Holmgren (Sv. Ak. Handl. 1855, p. 385) as comprising that 

 section of Polyblastus. Htg., having the clypeus continuous with 

 the face and not divided from it by a transverse sulcus, which 

 feature, he tells us, will distinguish its species from the remainder 

 of their subfamily. He is, however, in error in supposing the 

 hosts to be Lepidopterous, since in every case they have hitherto 

 proved to be the Tenthredinid genera Nematus and Dineura. 



A dozen European species, and three or four American, have 

 been relegated to this genus ; but only two Indian forms are at 

 present recognised. 



The genus Cyphanza is placed among the TRYPHONINI by its 

 author, who entirely failed to note the pectination of the tarsal 

 claws in his elaborate diagnosis (loc. cit.\ where he considers it 

 allied, in Ashmead's tables of 1900, to Gensia, Forst., a quite 

 untenable position." I have examined the type and am satisfied 

 of its synonymy with Hartig's genus. 



Table of Species. 



1 (2) Abdomen, except basally, clear reel ; $ orientalis, Cam. 



2 (1) Abdomen discally black throughout ; $ niger, Cam. 



236. Monoblastus orientalis, Cam. 



Monoblastus orientalis, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1909, p. 727 ( $ ). 



$ . A black species, the face with pale markings and the 

 abdomen apically red. head transverse, as broad as thorax 

 and not narrowed behind the very 

 slightly emarginate eyes ; f rons and 

 vertex finely punctate and somewhat 

 shining, the former longitudinally 

 impressed and subglabrous centrally ; 

 face evenly and somewhat coarsely 

 punctate, and with long white hairs, 

 black, with a conspicuous circular 

 ^ ^^^ flavous mark beneath each scrobe ; 



a Sm \ clypeus convex and apically broadly 



1 I lU B rounded; mandibles stout. Antenna' 



filiform and as long as the body, 

 black, with the flagellar joints becom- 

 - 94. ing ferruginous beneath towards the 



Monoblastus orientalis, Cam. apex. Thorax stout, pilose and im- 

 maculate black ; mesonotum shining 

 and finely punctate, apically subvertical, with no notauli ; meta- 

 notum evenly and more closely punctate, with the areola laterally 



