494 ICHNEUMOJflD^E. 



apically attenuate. Thorax not cylindrical, higher than long,. 

 with the mesosteriium nearly always transverse and the meta- 

 notal carina} distinct ; areola usually transverse and angled. 

 First abdominal segment with the glymmal sulci distinct, and the 

 subquadrate postpetiole obviously broader ; second segment not 

 or hardly longer than the third, and not transverse ; seventh 

 rarely incised in $ and the terebra either hardly exserted or a 

 little longer than the basal segment, with dilated valvulae. Legs 

 not Btout, with the tarsal claws pectinate. Wings with the 

 stigma not broad ; areolet nearly always irregular, small and 

 petiolate ; radial cell sublanceolate and the second discoidal 

 apically acute ; anal nervure emitted from the centre of the 

 brachial cell ; nervellus neither oblique nor geniculate. 

 Range. Pala?arctic Eegion, Himalayas, Ceylon. 



Table of Species. 



1 (2) Abdomen entirely black ; basal meta- 



notal area not petiolate ebenina, Grav., p. 494. 



2 (1) Abdomen broadly red ; basal meta- 



notal area petiolate. 



3 (4) Costulse wanting; hind tibire not 



basally black simlacnsis, Cam., p. 495. 



4 (3) Costulse entire; hind tibia? basally 



black varicoxa, Thorns., p. 496. 



388. Anilasta ebenina, Grav. 



Campoplex ebeninus, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Europ. iii, 1829, p. 48O 



(rf ?)(>"*) 



Limneria melanaria, Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1854, p. 37. 

 Campoplex melanarius, Holmgren, op. cit. 1858, p. 37 ; Fb'rster,. 



Vorh. z.-b. Ges. 1868, p. 872 (3 $ ). 

 Anilasta. ebenina, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xi, 1887, p. 1170 (J $). 



J $ . A pilose, black species, with the legs, except basally, 

 alone red. Head with the vertex broad, and but slightly con- 

 stricted behind the internally subemarginate eyes ; clypeus apically 

 rounded and simple ; palpi and mandibles pale, with the teeth 

 subequal. Antennce not very slender. Thorax immaculate, with 

 the areola hexagonal, not longer than broad and emitting distinct 

 costulaj a little beyond its centre ; basal area not small ; spiracles 

 circular. Abdomen entirely black, with the postpetiole somewhat 

 widened and the apices of the segments nitidulous ; terebrit 

 distinctly exserted. Legs clear red, with the anterior coxa3 and 

 trochanters sometimes paler, and the hind ones black ; hind tibia> 

 externally spinulose and hardly darker apically. Wings hyaline, 

 with the tegula? white and the areolet petiolate. 



Length 6-7 millim. 



KASHMIE, 8000-9000 ft. (Col. Nurse); ASSAM: Shillong,. 

 6000 ft., iv and vi. 03 (Rowland Turner). EUBOPE. 



Type in the Breslau Museum. 



