XtESOCHOKUS. 519 



L., in England, as stated by the Rev. T. A. Marshall 

 ( Bracouides d'Europe,' i, p. 476), and a male was bred at Pusa 

 from the Noctuid moth, Ophiusa melicerta. In the Calcutta 

 Museum are three males, together with some forty Apanteles 

 cocoons, whence they had emerged, on a leaf, labelled "Ichneumons 

 of Adolias yaruda," but with no locality. 



408. Mesochorus fragilis, sp. u. 



cf . A small, pale testaceous speeies, with the oeellar region 

 alone black : stigma unicolorous stramineous ; basal nervure 

 continuous through the median ; areolet subpetiolate. 



Leiif/th 3| millim. 



TEXASSERIM ( IF. Dol>erty}. 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



This species so closely resembles M.facialis in every particular 

 that I should certainly have considered it nothing but a pale 

 form, were it not that the basal nervure is quite continuous 

 through the median and the areolet somewhat distinctly less 

 sessile ; in coloration, however, it is altogether paler, having the 

 ocellar region alone black, with the thyridii of the second and 

 apex of the third segment slightly infuscate ; the second segment 

 is a little longer than broad, the hind tibiae are immaculate and 

 the stigma pale stramineous. 



Described from a single male. 



400. Mesochorus claristigniaticus, sp. n. 



$ . A somewhat small, indefinitely black and testaceous species, 

 with the basal nervure continuous, the areolet subpetiolate and 

 the stigma basally hyaline. Head rufescent testaceous, with the 

 ocellar region and mandibular apices black ; ocelli not large, nor 

 the frontal orbits white. Auteiuui', slender, filiform and pale 

 throughout. Mesonotum finely punctate and testaceous, with its 

 sides subiuf uscate ; meso-and pro-pleura? and prosternum blackish, 

 with distinct sternauli ; metapleime black ; uietanotum clear red, 

 with the areola hexagonal, twice as long as broad, emitting the 

 costuUe distinctly before its centre, and gradually constricted 

 basally ; basal area wanting ; petiolar area not extending to 

 centre of metathorax, basally rounded and finely discrete ; 

 spiracles circular, not small, remote from the entire lateral carinse 

 and facing upwards. Scutellum testaceous and (apparently) 

 apically tuberculate. Abdomen glabrous and uitidulous, with the 

 slender basal segment subaciculate before its apex, and compressed 

 from the third segment ; rufescent testaceous, with the anus and 

 sides of the second and third segments dark ; basal segment a 

 little widened from the subpromineist spiracles, and the second 

 distinctly a little longer than apically broad ; terebra straight and 

 not slender, black and as long as the second segment. Legs 

 testaceous ; the anterior femora and tibiae, with the hind tibia? 

 (except their deep black apices), navescent ; hind calcaria exactly 



