336 ICHNECMONIDJ:. 



black, with the extreme apices of the segments obsoletely white ; 

 basal segment not convex, scabriculous and cliscally bicarinate to 

 the shallow subapical transverse impression, with the spiracles 

 before its centre ; remaining segments transverse, shining and 



Fig. 95. Ctenacme pallidipes, Cain. 



obsoletely punctate; venter pale; spicula slightly exserted beyond 

 the stout and grey-pilose valvulae, the bases of which are covered 

 by the stout and pale hypopyginm. Legs of normal length and 

 entirely stramineous, with only the apices of the hind tibiae and of 

 their tarsal joints blackish. Wings ample and hyaline ; radix and 

 tegulae stramineous, stigma testaceous ; areolet sessile and trian- 

 gular; nervellus subopposite and intercepted below its centre. 



Length 5 mi Him. 



PUNJAB : Simla, viii. 98 (Col. Nurse). 



Type, in Col. Nurse's collection. 



I have drawn the above description from the type specimen, 

 which is the only example I have seen. It would appear to differ 

 from all others of its genus in the basally tuberculate clypeus and 

 peculiar facial foveaj; the very slightly compressed antennae are 

 also remarkable. Cameron, however, appears to have examined 

 more than the type, since he gives the length as 6-7 inillim. 



Genus RHORUS, Fdrst. 

 mortis, Forster, Verb. pr. Rheinl. 1868, p. 195. 

 GENOTYPE, Tryplion mesoxanthus, Grav. 



Head transverse and hardly buccate, vertex emarginate ; clypeus 

 transverse and convex, with its apical margin depressed, truncate 

 or rounded ; mandibular teeth stout and subequal in length ; eves 

 entire and oblong-oval. Antennae filiform, distinctly stout and as 



