482 ICHNEUMONID.K. 



373. Limnerium buddha, Cam. 



Limneria buddha, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 124 ($ ). 



$ . Head black, with the mandibles (except apically) and palpi' 

 flavous ; face and clypeus uniformly and somewhat strongly 

 punctate and pubescent ; frons and vertex less strongly punctate, 

 more sparsely and shortly pubescent. Antenna black, with the 

 scape flavous, blackish above and with long pale pubescence 

 beneath ; flagellum with dense short black pubescence. Thora.v 

 closely punctate, black, with silvery pilosity ; rnesouotum with 

 sparse dark pubescence ; metathorax trans-aciculate apically in the 

 centre, the central keel longish ; the kteral roundly curved ; pro- 

 pleurae closely punctured, running into longitudinal striations ; 

 the mesopleurae closely punctured ; the oblique depression, in 

 the middle behind, finely striated ; the metapleune similarly 

 punctured ; the curved keel in the centre stout, attenuated at the 

 apex. Scutellum less strongly punctate than the mesonotum, its- 

 basal fovea with white pubescence ; postscutellum deeply foveolate, 

 and externally nitidulous, laterally. Abdomen red, with the first 

 segment, basal three-fourths of second, and centre of third basally, 

 black; venter centrally flavous ; terebra 2 millim. in length, with 

 the valvulae black. Legs : anterior pairs fulvous, with the coxa} 

 and trochanters flavous ; hind legs subrufescent, with the coxse, 

 tarsi, and base and apex of their tibiae blackish ; calcaria flavous. 

 Wings hyaline, with the stigma dark. 



Length 7 millim. 



ASSAM: Khasi Hills (Rotlmey). 



Type in the Oxford Museum ; badly broken. 



374. Limnerium fuscicarpus, Thorns. 



Limneria fuscicarpus, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xi, 1887, p. 1104 



Eulimneria fttscicarjnts. Schmiedeknecht, Opusc. Ichu. 1908, 



p. 1654(/). 

 Limnerium annulipes, Cameron MS. ( ) (nee Cress. 1864). 



<$ $ . An elongate, black species, with the legs, except basally, 

 red ; femora normal, the hind ones immaculate ; the hind tibia) 

 pure white with their base and apex broadly black ; hind tarsi and 

 their calcaria black, with the base of both broadly white ; longi- 

 tudinal metanotal impression dull and granulose. 



Length 6-7 millim. 



PUNJAB : Simla, viii. 98 (Col. Nurse). 



The pure white markings of the hind legs, all the trochanters 

 and mandibles, and the black base of the hind tibiae, render this- 

 species distinct. 



I have seen onlv one female in Col. Nurse's collection. 



