404 ICHNEUMOXIDJB. 



striolafre behind ; mesopleurao basally striate and irregularlv 

 reticulate, with their apical impression crenulate; metapleune 

 strongly and irregularly reticulate, broadly impressed basally 

 above. Scutellum with dense long dark hairs ; its base hardly more 

 strongly punctate than the mesonotuin, its sides longitudinally 

 striolate throughout, and the apex centrally rugose. Abdomen 

 ferruginous, with the two basal segments discally black. Leys : 

 anterior pairs flavous, with the femora subfulvescent ; hind coxto 

 black, apically rnfescent and (in <$ ) flavous centrally beneath ; 

 their trochanters bright red, the femora and the basal two-thirds 

 of the tibia3 dark red ; apices of hind tibiae black ; hind tarsi ful- 

 vescent flavous and densely pilose, with the second joint flattened 

 internally and in tf dilated apically. Wings fulvescerit hyaline, 

 with the stigma fulvous and the nervures darker ; internal cubital 

 nervure emitted from the upper third of the submarginal. 



Lew/ill 25-33 millim. 



UNITED PROVINCES : Mussoori, 7500 ft., viii. 06 (//. M. Lefroy 

 Pusa coll.) ; ASSAM : Khasi Hills (lloihney, type) 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



297. Schizoloma amicta, F. 



Ichneumon nmictus t Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 1775, p. 341; id., Syst. 



Ins. 1781, p. 436 ; id., Mant. Ins. i, p. '269 Villers, Linn. Ent. 



iii, 1789, p. 200; Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. v, 1790, p. 2710; 



llossi, Mant. 1792, p. 123; Fabrici'us, Ent. Syst, ii, 1793, p. 181. 

 Ophion (tmictus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., Suppl. 1798, p. 237; id., Syst. 



Piez. 1804, p. 133; Olivier, Encycl. Mh. viii, 1811, p. 511. 

 Anomalon amictum, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. iii, 1829, p. 650 ; 



liatzeburg, Ichn. d. Forst. i, p. 88 ; ii, p. 77 ; Vollenhoven, 



Pinac.pl. in, tig. 5 (J?). 



Therion amictum, Curtis, Brit. Ent. xvi, pi. 736 ( 3 ). 

 Schizoloma amictum, Wesmael, Bull. Ac. Brux. 1849, p. 120 ; 



Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Ilandl. 1854, p. 24; id., op. cit. 1858, p. 13 ; 



Kirchner, Lotos, 1856, p. 234 ; Bridgman & Fitch, Entom. 1884, 



p. 181 ; Thomson, Opusc. Eut. xvi, 1892, p. 1757 (rf $). 



A large black species, with red abdomen and legs ; at once 

 known from the whole of the other ANOMALIDES by its distinct ly 

 reflexed and bilobed clypeus. 



Length 18-26 uiillim. 



UNITED PROVINCES : Mussoori, vii. 05 (E. P. Stebbing). EUROPE . 



Type in the British Museum. 



No detailed description of this species is requisite here, since 

 Cameron's description of the preceding species will very well 

 represent the present one in every way, with the sole exception 

 of its flavous vertical orbits which, in my experience, are always 

 black in Fabricius's insect. S. amicta is stouter and more densely 

 pilose, with the thorax broader and the metathorax shorter, the 

 hind coxae and trochanters are less elongate and the head more 

 buccate on the vertex, the notauli less deeply impressed, the 



