444 ICHXEUMONID.E. 



Genus CEPHALOBOLUS, gen. nov. 



GrEN'OTYPE, 0. parvipes, Mori. 



Head strongly punctate, nearly cubical, and a little broader 

 than the thorax ; mandibles stout, with the lower much longer 

 than the upper tooth, and their base broader than the cheeks ; 

 clypeus distinctly discrete, apically very broadly rounded, not 

 reflexed, and distinctly margined ; eyes internally parallel and 

 not emarginate, with the head between them and the widely 

 separated scrobes strongly inflated and obtusely prominent ; 

 vertex emarginate. Antennae filiform, stout, and not extending 

 beyond the apex of the abdomen. Thorax nitidulous, deeply and 

 evenly punctate throughout, with obsolete notauli ; mesosternum 

 bordered and strongly sinuate apically ; metathorax not apically 

 produced, its basal area small and distinct, the petiolar laterally 

 indicated ; spiracles elongate oval. Scutellurn triangular, slightly 

 convex, and not carinate. Abdomen compressed from base to 

 third segment ; the two basal segments of equal length ; basal 

 segment parallel-sided to a little beyond its centre and thence 

 elongate fusiform through the spiracles to the constricted apex, 

 glabrous, with very sparse punctation ; second closely aciculate 

 throughout ; third alutaceous, becoming subaciculate basally ; 

 ventral valvulaj large and elongately exserted. Legs short and 

 slender; all the tarsi unusually slender, hind claws nearly straight 

 and obsoletely pectinate basally ; anterior coxae sparsely punctate, 

 the hind ones coarsely and granulately punctate and strongly 

 <Jeplanate beneath. Wings not small, with the nervures very 

 strong ; areolet wanting ; submarginal nervure but little shorter 

 than the fenestrate second recurrent, and emitted slightly before 

 it ; the fenestrate internal cubital continuous with the first 

 recurrent ; basal nervure subcontinuous through the median ; 

 hind wings with all the apical nervures strongly pellucid ; the 

 recurrrent strongly postfurcal and thrice as long as the basal 

 abscissa of the radius ; nervellus subgeniculate centrally but not 

 intercepted. 



Range. Kashmir. 



This genus is certainly closely allied to Cliarops in the wanting 

 areolet, short antenna?, and the structure of the postpetiole, but 

 the head and thorax are much stouter and the legs dispro- 

 portionately short and slender ; to Clatha it is allied in the 

 apically obsolete nervures of the hind wings ; but from all 

 OpmoxrXuE with which I am acquainted the tumidous frontal 

 orbits, almost exactly resembling those of Bathycetes (Meniscus) 

 catenator, P/., render it abundantly distinct. 



333. Cephalobolus parvipes, sp. n. 



d . A black and nitidulous species, with the legs pale and the 

 abdomen centrally red. Head very large and black, with the 

 mandibles internally entirely and externally in the centre, apices 



