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241. Scolobates testaceus, sp. u. 



$ . A handsome, shining testaceous species, with somewhat 

 indefinite black markings. Head but slightly narrowed behind the 

 prominent eyes ; occiput, ocellar region externally, a mark be- 

 tween the scrobes extending to the face, and the apices of the 

 mandibles, black ; cheeks flavescent. Antennae stout and infuscate- 

 ferrugiuous, with all the joints short and the basal becoming 

 rufescent beneath. Thorax not long, strongly nitidulous through 

 out, testaceous, with marks on mesopleurae, mesonotum centrally 

 and above the radices, above hind frenuin and in centre of rneta- 

 notum, black ; mesosternum flavescent ; notauli obsolete ; meta- 

 notum longitudinally convex on either side at base. Scutellum 

 convex, rufo-flavescent. Abdomen strongly compressed from the 

 second segment, pilose and testaceous, with basal black marks on 

 .all the segments, becoming larger on the hasal ones ; first seg- 

 ment strongly elongate and indefinitely bicarinate at base ; spicula 

 emarginate beneath the acuminate apex. Legs testaceous, with 

 only the small pulvilli and claws, and basal half of hind coxae, 

 black ; hind legs elongate, but not conspicuously incrassate. 

 Wings somewhat strongly and evenly infumate ; radix, tegulas 

 and stigma ferruginous ; uerrellus intercepted below its centre. 



Length 8 millim. 



UXITED PROVINCES : Mussoori, 7000 ft., x. 06 (H. M. Lefroy). 



Type in the Pusa collection. 



242. Scolobates auriculatus, F. 



Ichneumon auriculatus, Fabricius, Piex. 1804, p. 69. 



Scolobates crassitarsus, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. ii, 1829, p. 360; 



Stephens, Illus. Mandib. vii, 1835, p. 269; Fonscolombe, Ann. 



Soc. Ent. France, 1849, p. 237 ; Kriechbaumer, Ent. Xachr. 



1877, p. 134; v. Stein, Ent. Nachr. 1880, p. 103 (rf $) ; Davis, 



Trans. Amer. Ent, Soc. 1897, p. 264 ( $ ). 

 Scolobates auriculatus, Ratzeburg, Ichn. d. Forst. ii, 1840, p. 77 ; 



Holmgren, Ofv. Sv. Ak. Forli. 1858, p. 330; id. Sv. Ak. Handl. 



1858, p. 154 ; Tasclienberg, Hym. Deuts. 1866, p. 74 (rf ?). 

 Prionopoda canadensis, Harrington, Canad. Entom. 1892, p. 98 ( ). 



A smooth arid strongly nitidulous species, black, with the head 

 mainly and the abdomen centrally red. Head buccate, tumidous 

 and very smooth, parallel-sided behind the eyes; mouth, frontal 

 orbits, cheeks very broadly and the sparsely punctate face, 

 fulvescent. Antennas, somewhat longer than the body, stout, 

 filiform and apically subattenuate, red or ferruginous beneath ; 

 scape obliquely truncate apically, and the first longer than second 

 flagellar joint. Thorax gibbulous, very smooth, a little longer 

 than high, black ; sternum punctate ; metanotum glabrous, with 

 no areas, though impressed on either side at both base and apex. 

 Sc-utellum black. Abdomen centrally red, about as long as head 

 and thorax, deplanate or (in $ ) apically subcora pressed ; basal 



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