84 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Head black ; the frontal spine, the face, the inner orbits to shortly 

 above the base of the antennae — the yellow line narrowed and rounded 

 above — the clypeus, cheeks, and mandibles, except at the apex, yellow. 

 Face strongly punctured ; the clypeus is rounded at the top ; its upper 

 part convex, its lower with a semicircular depression in the middle ; 

 the apex black and transverse in the middle; the sides obliquely 

 narrowed ; both are black on the lower side. Vertex strongly punc- 

 tured ; the punctures distinctly separated ; the front is much more 

 closely and more minutely punctured, especially below where they run 

 into striations. Thorax strongly and closely punctured, and thickly 

 covered with white hair ; there is a yellow mark — obliquely narrowed 

 on the inner side — on either side of the pronotum, and the post- 

 scutellum is yellow. The scutellum is more sparsely punctured than 

 the mesonotum. The basal area on the metanotum is stoutly longi- 

 tudinally striated ; the rest of it is closely rugosely punctured, and is 

 thickly covered with long white hair. Pleurae closely but not deeply 

 punctured, except the part below the hind wings, which is closely 

 striated. Legs yellow ; the four front femora above broadly at the 

 base, slightly more than the apical half of the posterior, and a line on 

 the outer and inner sides of the apical half of the hinder tibiae, black ; 

 the hinder tarsi infuscated. Wings hyaline, the apex smoky ; the 

 stigma, the costa, and the basal nervures fulvous. The abdominal 

 segments are lined with yellow on the apex ; the last has an irregularly 

 round mark on the sides. The pygidial area is strongly punctured, 

 more sparsely in the middle than at the apex or base ; the epipygium 

 has a rounded incision in the apex ; the fifth and sixth segments are, 

 at the apex laterally, armed with bundles of stiff golden hair, the last 

 being tlie thicker and longer, and looks like a stiff broad spine. 



Come nearest to C. himalayensis, Bingham. 



ICHNEUMONIDiii. 



Cryptus excavatus, sp. nov. 



Niger ; pedibus rufis ; coxis trochanteribus femoribusque anticis 

 subtus nigris; alls liyalinis, stigmate nervisque nigris. ? . Long. 12, 

 terebra 3 mm. 



Hah. Simla (Nurse). 



Antennas entirely black. Head black ; the inner orbits narrowly 

 in the middle and the outer still more narrowly yellow. Face strongly 

 and closely punctured, and thickly covered with white hair ; the centre 

 roundly projecting. Clypeus smooth, shining, and sparsely punc- 

 tured. Front deeply depressed, smooth, closely and finely transversely 

 striated ; the part belov/ the ocelli is coarsely irregularly transversely 

 striated; the vertex near the ocelli is stoutly reticulated. Thorax 

 closely rugosely punctured, more or less striated on the pleurae and 

 mesonotum. Scutellum shining and sparsely punctured. The median 

 segment is more coarsely rugosely punctured than the mesonotum ; 

 the basal keel is less distinct than the apical ; the teeth are broad. 

 The mesosternal furrow is deep, curved, and does not reach beyond the 

 middle. Legs rufous ; all the coxae and trochanters, the front femora 

 to near the apex below and behind, the middle pair behind to near 



