278 Mr. R. E. Turner on 



carina, the posterior slope of the segment is margined above 

 by a carina wliicli is connected with the basal area by three 

 strong carinae ou each side ; on the posterior slope are two 

 carinae converging towards the apex, on each side of these 

 carincc are two well-defined areas. Abdomen smooth and 

 shining. Second cubital cell as long as high at the base, 

 pointed on the radius, the second transverse cubital nervure 

 strongly bent below the middle and emitting the stump of a 

 nervure. The yellow colour of the fore wing extends well 

 beyond the nervulus, and beyond the basal nervure except 

 near the costa. Hind metatarsus longer than the four apical 

 joints of the hind tarsi. 



Hab. Dehra Dun, United Provinces, India, September and 

 October 1913 (Nos. 10 & 11). 



Bracon (olira Cremnops) desertor^ L. 

 Ichneumon deserter, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. JO a, i. p. 563 (1758). 



One female received from Dehra Dun is identical with 

 European specimens (June 1913, No, 1). 



Subfamily Helconinjs. 

 Pstudohelcon disianti, sp. n. 



$. Lutea ; mandibulis apice, area inter ocellos, autennis valvu- 

 lisque nigris; tarsis posticis, tibiisque posticis dimidio apicali 

 infuscatis ; ali.s pallidissime flavo-hyalinis, venis flavis ; stigmate 

 dimidio apicali, vena basali, nervulo radiique abscissa prima 

 fuscis. 



Long. 10 mm., terebrae long, 9 mm, 



? . Eyes prominent and fairly large ; the head broad and 

 massive, somewhat swollen behind the eyes, the hind margin 

 broadly and rather shallowly emarginate ; vertex shining, 

 very minutely punctured, a space behind the ocelli 6>lightly 

 concave ; front and face opaque and very delicately rugulose. 

 Third and fourth antennal joints equal, not (juite four times 

 as long as thick; antennte a little more than two-thirds of 

 the length of the insect. Thorax finely punctured, the 

 notauli deep and finely crenulate. Median segment and 

 first tergite coarsely rugulose, the base of the second tergite 

 more finely rugulose, the remaining tergites smooth and 

 shining. First tergite much longer than broad, second 

 broader than long. Fore tarsi longer than the til)iie, but 

 less than half as long again; hind tibicC less than twice as 



