360 ICHNEUMOXID.E. 



glabrous and strongly nitidulous, with obsolete notauli ; inetanotal 

 areas usually complete, with the areola hexagonal and not longer 

 than broad, apically truncate, emitting distinct costulaa near its 

 base ; basal area very narrow and parallel-sided ; petiolar area 

 strongly discrete ; spiracles elongate-oval. Scutellum convex, 

 glabrous, nitidulous, and immarginate. Abdomen half as long 

 again as head and thorax, glabrous, becoming compressed and 

 subpiiose from centre of the third segment ; basal segment sub- 

 linear, with central, very prominent disco-lateral spiracles ; second 

 but slightly shorter, nearly twice as long as broad, with prominent 

 spiracles before its centre; third with subceutral and less pro- 

 tuberant spiracles ; anus compressed, with distinctly exserted 

 styles. Legs slender and subelongate, with the inner claw only of 

 each tarsus closely pectinate. Wings hyaline and very ample ; 

 basal nervure antefurcal (i. e., the upper basal intercepts the 

 median nervure distinctly beyond the lower basal) ; discoidal ner- 

 vure strongly curved with no nervelet ; anal emitted from centre 

 of brachial cell ; areolet not small, obliquely subquadrate and very 

 shortly but distinctly petiolate ; basal not longer than half the 

 sinuate apical abscissa of the radius ; nervellus intercepted belo\v 

 its centre and curved above. 



Mange. Himalayas. 



In its remarkable subquadrate areolet and anal styles this 

 genus appears to fill an evident gap in our system, between the 

 MESOCHORIDES and the remainder of the OPHIOXIX^E ; its affinities, 

 however, are entirely with the PAXISCIDES. 



257. Tetragonalys barbarica, Mori. 



Tetrayonalys barbarica, Morley, loc. cit. 



<J. A somewhat large and brightly nitidulous testaceous species, 

 with only the head (except the mouth), a dot behind the tegulse, 



Fig. 101. Tetragonalys barbarica, Mori. 



and the tarsal claws, black ; pronotum and stigma stramineous 

 anal styles as long as second hind tarsal joint. 

 Length 14 millim. 



