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ON THE TENTHREDINIM & PARASITIC HYMEN- 



OPTEF.A COLLECTED IN BALUCHISTAN BY 



MAJOR C. G. NULiSE. 



By P. Cameron. 



Part II. 



{Continued from page 107 of this Volume.) 



ICHNKOMONIP/E. 

 TRYPHONIN2E. 



Bassini. 



Bassus Icetatorlus, Fab. 



This, now cosmopolitan species, has been taken at Peshin in April and at 

 Quetta in May and June. It is probably common. 



Baiichhu. 

 Exetastes nitidus, sp. nov. 



Black, the apical half of the 1st aldcminal segment, the -whole of the 

 2nd and . 9 rd and the b:.salthree-foutths of ihe 4th, bright red ; 1 lie legs red ; 

 the coxae, basal joint of the 4 anterior trochanters, apical tl iid of bird tilia and 

 the hind tarsi, black ; the hind spuis fuscous ; wings hyaline, the s.igma fuscous, 

 the nervures black. 9. 



Length 1 1 mm. 



Quetta. May. 



Face and clypeus strongly, closely punctured ; the front and vertex as 

 closely, but not quite so strongly punclured ; ihe clypeus ch arly separated, 

 obliquely projecting. Labrum rufous round the apex, distinctly, sparsely 

 punctured. Base of mandibles strongly punctured, rufcus behind the apex. 

 Mesnnotum shining, impunctate ; the metanotum closely, rugosely. irregularly 

 reticulated-striaied ; tho pleurae closely, not veiy strongly punctured. Abdomen 

 smo< th and shining: the sheaths of the ovipositor black. Ihe tiansverte 

 cubital r.ervures unite in front ; the recurrent nervure is leceived in the middle 

 of the areolet ; %\\p disco-cnbital is broken by a longibh stump ; the transverse 

 median is interstitial. 'J ibise and tarsi thickly spinose. 



Ophionin^e. 



Ophioniui. 



O/jhion carinatus, sp. nov. 



Luteous, the eye orbits bioadly and the face | ale lemon-yellow ; the pleura 



tinged with yellow ; th* side3 of the middle lobe of mesonotum and the sides of 



the lateral yelb>w. Wings hyaline, the < osta and stigma pale tesia-eeus, ihe 



nervure* deep black : the transverse median nervure interstitial ; the stump oE 



a nervure nearly as long as the transverse cubital nervure ; the recuneni 



