PANISCUS. PA.ttABA.TTTS. 357' 



approximate basal ly ; basal metauotal impression narrow, curved 

 and glabrous ; pro- and meso-pleurae closely and finely punctate ; 

 metapleurse closely and obliquely striate, with tbe spiracular areas, 

 except at their base, more strongly and obliquely striate ; basal 

 half of metasternal carina roundly broadened, and marked above 

 by a few transverse carinee. Wings hyaline, with the costa and 

 stigma testaceous, nervures black; submarginal nervures sub- 

 coalescent in front, the external broadly fenestrate below and 

 there almost continuous with the second recurrent, which is thence- 

 abruptly and broadly curved outward ; nervelet minute. 



Length 14-17 inillim. 



KASHMIR, 5000-6000 ft., v. 05 (Col Nurse); MADRAS: Banga- 

 lore (Ind. Mus.). 



Type 5 in Col. Nurse's collection, also that of kashmirensis. 



P. testaceus " is paler, more yellowish in colour, the striation on 

 the metapleurae and spiracular region is much weaker and may be 

 almost obsolete, the apex of the metanotum is irregularly striated, 

 not smooth ; the face wants the longitudinal furrow " (Cameron). 



Unfortunately Cameron has entirely overlooked the peculiar 

 feature of this species, which is its very remarkably elongate 

 and acuminate central labral spine ; this is as long as the 

 unusually exserted labrum, which in turn is hardly shorter than 

 the elypeus. In other respects it might easily be confused with 

 P. testaceus, with which its facies exactly corresponds. 



Cameron has been at some trouble to differentiate P. kaslimir- 

 ensis, but his distinctions are certainly not specific, especially 

 since the labral structure is identical ; the separation of the 

 clypeus and basal metanotal impression are also identical, 

 arid the petiolar lateral carinse are traceable in both, though 

 stronger in P. montanus the nervelet is also but slightly more 

 developed ; the fenestrae of the second recurrent are identical and 

 the nervelet from it, mentioned by him, is entirely adventitious 

 and exists in one wing only ; such plastic features as the 

 epistomal sulcus and the density of the metanotal sculpture are 

 of little value in such unstable insects as are those of the present 

 genus. 



Genus PARABATUS, Thorns. 

 Parabatus, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xii, 1888, p. 150. 

 GENOTYPE, Ichneumon virgatus, .Fourc. 



This genus is little more than a subdivision of Paniscus and bears 

 the same facies. Therefrom it is at once recognised by the upper 

 and lower basal nervures being continuous through the median, 

 the genal and occipital carinse being entirely wanting and the 

 terebra often subconcealed. 



Range. Cosmopolitan. 



