354 ICHKEUMONIDJB. 



in such a manner that in place of an areolet both wings bear 

 ferruginous spots. 



I have seen one male bred at Pusa, 9. xi. 06, from the larva of a 

 Noctuid moth, Prodenia litura, F. There is a long series of this 

 species in the Pusa collection taken during the first seven months 

 of the year and in October, though by far the greater number 

 occurred in March and April. 



In Europe it is distributed from Scandinavia to Northern Africa 

 and is an abundant species in Britain ; it has been bred from a 

 great number of hosts, representing nearly every division of the 

 Macrolepidoptera, as well as, I think doubtfully, from three or 

 four species of the larger TENIHEEDINID^E. 



250. Paniscus quadrilineatus, Smith. 



Paniscus (]uadrilineat,us, Smith, Sclent. Res. 2nd Yarkand Mission, 

 1878, Hym. p. 21 ; C. O. Water-house, Aid Ident. Ins. 1885, 

 pi. clxii, fig. 2 ( $ ). 



$ . A red species, with the head paler and the mesonotum 

 bearing four flavidous lines. Head flavous with the occiput 

 fulvidous, eyes and ocelli black. Antenna fulvidous. Thorax 

 concolorous, glabrous and nitidulous ; two cl'scal mesonotal vittae, 

 and another on either side, flavidous. Scutellum triangular with 

 its sides elevated. Abdomen ferruginous-red, darker than the 

 thorax, becoming fusco-ferruginous apically. Legs fulvidous. 

 Wings hyaline and iridescent, with the nervures ferruginous and 

 stigma flavous. 



Lenyth 15 millim. 



CHINESE TURKESTAK : Yarkand. 



The intensity of the flavous marks and the clarity of the 

 abdominal rufescence are said by Smith to vary. Mr. Chas. (). 

 Waterhouse tells me that the type was sent by 1 he British Museum 

 authorities to Calcutta. His figure (loc. cit.) shows that the basal 

 nervure is not continuous through the median, and the stigma is 

 flavous. 



I here place (for lack of a better position) a female in the 

 Calcutta Museum, captured at Margherita in Assam ; it agrees 

 very well with Fred. Smith's description, so far as that extends, 

 and especially in the mesonotal coloration, but the stigma, which 

 is unusually conspicuous, is deep fulvous, not flavous, and the 

 terebra is as long as the basal segment ; the specimen is remarkable 

 and differs from any species of this genus, known to me, in the 

 extremely small areolet, which is elongately petiolate. 



251. Paniscus renovatus, nom. nov. 



Paniscus unicolor, Smith (nee Smith, 1H74), Scient. Res. 2nd 

 Yarkand Mission, 1878, Hym. p. 21 ( $). 



There is really little use in perpetuating this " species," since 

 Smith's description would equally well apply to many species. 



