348 ICHNEUMONID.E. 



8 (9) Stigma distinctly inf uscate ; hind 



tarsi stramineous nigriventris, Brulle", p. 349. 



9 (8) Stigma tfavescent ; hind tarsi not 



paler than tibiae. 



10 (11) Mesonotuni uuicolorous ocettaris, Thorns., p. 350. 



11 (10) Mesonotum with three infuscate 



stripes lineatus, Brulle, p. 352. 



12 (7) Darker ; metanotum strongly 



strigose. 



13 (14) Mesouotuui unicolorous testactus, Grav., p. 352. 



14 (13) Mesonotum with four paler vittse. quadriliHcatus ) Srnit'h,]). 354. 



15 (4) Notauli distinct at most on apical 



two-thirds of mesouotum. 



16 (17) Thorax immaculate testaceous ; 



metanotum sculptured orientalis, Cam., p. 355. 



17 (16) Thorax broadly flavous ; meta- 



notum glabrous flavolineatus, Cam., p. 355. 



18 (1) Labrum centrally produced into 



an elongate spine montanus, Cam., p. 356. 



244. Paniscus laevis, Cam. 



Paniscus Itccif, Cameron, Spol. Zeyl. 1905, p. 127 ('$). 



(J $ . An unusually slender, pale flavous, nitidulous and almost 

 entirely glabrous species. Head subimpunctate, with the clypeus 

 apically rounded and basally not discrete ; cheeks wanting ; 

 vertex obliquely constricted, but not very narrow. Anlennce sub- 

 rufesceiit and not apically darker, with abnormally close and long 

 white pubescence. Thorax subimpunctate, with the notauli very 

 superficial ; metastemal carina broadened basally. Scutellum 

 with the carina3 not apically coalescent. Abdomen and legs 

 immaculate ; valvulae of $ not black, of cf very large, and 

 strongly exserted in both sexes. Wings hyaline, with tbe stigma 

 pale flavous and the nervures blackish ; nervellus intercepted close 

 to bottom of upper fourth, and inferiorly abnormally oblique. 



Length 8-9 uiillini. 



BENGAL: Chapra(Pusacoll.); CEYLON: Kandy (E.E. Green, type). 



This species differs from all other Oriental members of this 

 genus in being almost entirely smooth, with the head and thorax 

 subimpunctate and the metanotum very obsoletely striate ; the 

 upper basal nervure is emitted by the median further from the 

 lower basal, the notauli are much weaker, and the eyes, divergent 

 below in P. intermediiis and P. orientalis, are internally parallel. 



It has the facies of a small and weakly developed P. ocellaris, but 

 the head and thorax are subglabrous, with the punctation and stri- 

 ation obsolete, though hardly wanting, and the tarsi are almost 

 white ; above all, the areolet is remarkably narrow, being fully 

 thrice as high as centrally broad, and emitting the internal cubital 

 nervure from its centre and not, as in the latter species,, from 

 distinctly below its centre. The only male 1 have seen is hardly 

 N millim. in length, slender and very pale ; it is in the Oxford 

 Museum and was captured in Ceylon in 1872 by Dr. Thwaites, 

 who presented a female from the same island to the British 

 Museum in 1867. 



