398 ICliNEUMOMU.E. 



Ichneumon foliator, Thuuberg, Mem. Ac. Sc. Petersb. 1S i,. i'74 ; 



id., op. cit. 1824, p. 347. 

 TracJiynotus foliator, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur, iii, 1829, p. 715 ; 



Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1858, p. 13; Taschenberg, Hym. 



Dent. 1886, p. 70 (c?$). 

 Xototrachys foliator, Bridgman & Fitch, Entom. 1884, p. 180 



(<m 



3 $ . A rufescent or black, very dull and rugose species, with 

 the head aud thorax nearly always more or less red. Head with 

 the frons and vertex somewhat nitidulous, the former finely 

 traus-aciculate and centrally very distinctly carinate; face and 

 clypeus closely and distinctly punctate, mandibles red. AnteniKK 

 slender, extending to apex of basal 

 segment, blackish throughout, 22- 

 jointed ; scape testaceous or black. 

 Thorax with the mesonotum irregularly 

 and not very strongly rugulose, more 

 finely laterally ; metanotuin and 

 mesopleurae scabrous and reticulate 

 throughout, not smooth between the 

 reticulations, and the latter not at all 



rstriate above ; areola small, hexagonal 

 if I I an ^ indistinct ; basal carina strong. 



/ \ Scutellum rugulose and laterally stoutly 



/ \ carinate. Abdomen glabrous and 



nitidulous, with the basal shorter than 

 the second segment and apically 

 pi- 112 incrassate ; terebra as long as the 



Nototrackyt foliator, V. second segment. Leys entirely testa- 

 ceous, with the hind tibiae, except 



their invariably white base, darker or black, with the anterior legs 

 paler ; hind tibiae longer than their tarsi, with the calcaria normal 

 and of equal length. Wings hyaline, with the apices subinfumate, 

 nervures and stigma black ; basal nervure continuous through 

 median; internal cubital nervure roundly curved; nervellus not 

 intercepted. 



Length 10-14 millim. 



PUNJAB : Kangra Valley, 4500 ft., iv. 99 (G. C. Dudgeon) ; 

 BENGAL : Chapra, iii. 06 (Mackenzie), Pusa, vii. 06 (Pusa coll.), 

 Calcutta, Bettiah and Katihar (Ind. Mus.) ; CENTRAL PROVINCES : 

 Hoshangabad (Pusa coll.) ; BOMBAY : Poona, ix. 86 (11. C. 

 \Vrovyhton) ; CEYLON : Colombo, v. 04 (0. S. Wick-war) ; BURMA : 

 Moulmein (N. Annandale). EUROPE ; NORTH AFRICA. 



Very variable in colour; specimens I possess from Ajaccio, 

 taken by the Kev. T. A. Marshall, are black, with the head and 

 thorax only sparsely marked with red ; but most of the Indian 

 examples I have seen are bright testaceous with only the abdomen 

 infuscate, while one male has the whole scutellum and most of 

 the black-marked thorax clear flavous, though no structural 

 distinctions are traceable. "VVroughton took an almost entirely 



