358 ICHNEUMONID.K. 



Table of Species. 



1 (2) Nervellua of hind wing intercepted distinctly 



above centre ...... ...................... virgatus, Fourc. 



2 (1) Nervellus intercepted at its centre ............ amplus, Mori. 



255. Parabatus virgatus, Fourc. 



Ichneumon virgatus, Fourcroy, Entom. Paris, ii, 1785, p. 401; 



de Villers, Linn. Ent. iii, 1789, p. 204. 

 Ophion virgatum, Gravenhorst, Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Curios. 1818, 



p. 295. 

 Paniscus virgatus, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. iii, 1829, p. 625 ; Newport, 



Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi, 1852, p. 71, pi. viii, tigs. 13-19 : Holmgren, 



Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 32 ; Bridgman & Fitch, Entoni. 1885, p. 13 



Parabatus virgatus, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xii, 1888, p. 1 197 ; Brauns, 

 Arch. Nat. Meckl. 1889, p. 80; Bridgman, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, 

 p. 420; Kokujew, Horae Soc. Ent. Boss. 1899, p. 136, note ( 3 $). 



Paniscus interst'itialis, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 106 (? tf ). 



c? $ . A pale red species, with the head flavous and the ineso- 

 notum often more or less infuscate. Head pale, with the palpi 

 and mandibles rufescent, and the teeth of the latter black ; face 

 closely but not strongly punctate, and, like the clypeus, with 

 short white hairs ; apex of clypeus with long ferruginous hairs ; 

 vertex blackish only between the basal ocelli. Antenna elongate, 

 unicolorous red and very sparsely pilose. Thorax pale ; meso- 

 noturn sometimes infuscate, with the central, or all three, lobes 

 dark, but the notauli always pale ; metathorax convexly deplanate 

 basally, its apex centrally elevated, its sides slightly depressed and 

 bordered posteriorly by a stout and curved carina; metanotum 

 not distinctly trans-aciculate ; all the pleura smooth, shining and 

 flavescent, with the metapleural sulcus broad and deeply impressed : 

 mesosternum sometimes deep black. Scutellum ferruginous and 

 often laterally paler ; postscutellum roundly oblique at both ex- 

 tremities. Abdomen testaceous and not strongly constricted at 

 the base, often subiufuscate apically. Legs rufescent ; coxae, tro- 

 chanters and hind tibiae stramineous in <5 . Wings clear hyaline, 

 with the costa and stigma flavidous ; nervures basally black, be- 

 coming paler apically ; areolet oblique, narrow, subelongate, and 

 shortly but distinctly petiolate, with its outer nervure pellucid 

 throughout its lower half; second recurrent nervure continuous 

 with outer nervure of areolet, pellucid to its extreme base, as well 

 as below its centre, and very strongly curved outwardly through- 

 out ; basal nervure continuous through the median ; nervelet 

 wanting; nervellus intercepted at its upper third or fourth. 



Length 10-14 inillim. 



PUNJAB: Simla, 7000 ft., iv.07 (Ind. Mus.); SIKKIM: Kur- 

 seong, 6000 ft., v. 09, and Gangtok, 6150 ft., ix. 09 (Ind. Mus.) ; 

 ASSAM: Khasi Hills (Rothney). EUROPE. 



This is a very abundant species throughout the Palaearctic 

 region, and it had already been recorded from the Oriental by 



