324: On the Siatus of Parabates, Foerster, dec. 



Since tlieie seems, therefore, to be no strongly distinctive 

 structural character between these groups, and especially 

 since there seems to be no association of structural characters, 

 their logical treatment would seem to be as at most subgenera 

 of a single genus, Faniscus. 



The arrangement and synonymy will therefore be : — 



Paniscus, Gravenhorst. 



Subgenus Paniscus. 



Type. — \Ichneumon luteus, Ross] = Faniscus testaciKS, 

 Gravenhorst, the only originally included species. 



Distinguishing characters : Head with an occipital carina; 

 nervulus (M4 + CU]) apicad of the apex of the median cell ; 

 areolet present and complete. 



Subgenus Parabatus, Tliomsou. 



Type. — Ichneumon virgatus, Fourcroy, by designation of 

 Viercck, 1914. 



Distinguishing- characters: Head without an occipital 

 carina ; nervulus interstitial, but in some species slightly 

 apicad of the apex of the median cell, in another (known 

 from a unique and possibly aberrant Pcilearctic female) basad 

 thereof, and iti some species not interstitial (according to 

 ]\Iorley, who would on tliat account put them in Faniscus) ; 

 areolft present in normal individuals, but lacking in aberrant 

 individuals of at least one species. 



Subgenus Pababatks, Foerster, 



Type. — Parabatus iiigricarpus, Thomson, by present desig- 

 nation, and by viitue of the tact that it is the only one of the 

 species first included in Farabaies, which conies under the 

 original generic definition. '^Iheieforc, not Ichneumon vir- 

 gatus, Fourcroy, which was cited as ty})e by Viereck. 



Synonym. — Opheltoideus, Ashmead, of which the type is 

 johnsoni, A^-hmtixd. Syi. 0113 m by reason of the types being- 

 congeneric so far as jjublished descriptions indicate. 



Distinguishing characteis: Htad without an occijiilal 

 carina; nervulus interstitial ; areolet absent. 



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