370 ICHNEUMOXIDJE. 



the eyes ; occiput and external orbits pale flavous, with the 

 vertex darker and the mandibular teeth black. Antennas ferru- 

 ginous, becoming darker towards their apices. Thorax pale 

 fulvescent flavous ; mesonotum darker, with its central lobe 

 mainly infuscate and not distinctly discrete from the lateral; 

 metanotum with no transverse striae, but with a distinct central 

 transverse carina, whence two weaker c-arinae extend to the apex 

 and enclose a longitudinally aciculate petiolar area, or the 

 indistinct "depression in the middle at the base is broader than 

 its length, narrowed to a point in the middle at the apex and 

 longitudinally striated in the middle ; across the middle of the 

 median segment is a stout transverse keel, behind which, in the 

 centre, is a shallow depression ; the apex of the segment oblique, 

 the middle finely longitudinally striated " ; pleurae gLibrous and 

 nitidulous. Scutellum nitidulous, glabrous and pale flavous, with 

 its sides not carinate above; postscutellum distinctly convex, 

 apically obliquely sloping ; frenum striate. Abdomen ferru- 

 ginous, with the first segment basally paler. Leys concolorous 

 with the thorax. Wings hyaline, with the stigma fulvous and 

 the nervures black ; basal nervure not quite continuous through 

 the median; second recurrent nervure emitted opposite the apex 

 of the basal radial abscissa, rendering the abruptly triangular 

 apex of the first cubital ceil of equal length above and below. 

 Length 15 millim. 

 ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Roilmey). 

 Type in the Oxford Museum. 



This species is said to agree with 0. univittati'.s, Brulle, in 

 bearing a brunneous mesonotal band ; but the metathorax is not 

 covered with fine and curved striae, etc., as in that species. 



There is a large male of 22 millim. in the National Collection, 

 captured during July 1895 by G. C. Dudgeon, in Bhutan, which 

 agrees very well with this description, excepting that the abdomen 

 is black from the fourth segment : coloration is, however, known 

 to be inconstant in this genus. A female in the British Museum, 

 from Quetta, also seems to be referable to this species. 



266. Ophion albopictus, Smith. 



Op/iion albopictus, Smith, Scient. Res. 2nd Yarkand Mission, 187S, 

 Hym. p. 22; 0. O. Waterhouse, Aid Ident. Ins. pi. clxii, 

 fig. 4($). 



5 . Head white with the mandibles rufescent, the eyes and 

 ocelli black. Antenna? red. Thorax rufescent, with two discal 

 mesonotal vittae, the lateral sutures and numerous pleural spots 

 below the wings white. Scutellum also white. Abdomen red, 

 with some pale whitish lateral spots towards the anus; two 

 basal ventral segments white. Wings hyaline and iridescent, 

 with the nervures ferruginous and the stigma pale red. 



Length 13 millim. 



KASHMIR (Dr. Stolicz/ca). 



