DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES OF HYMENOPTERA. 1011 



or pale ; wings clear hyaline, the costa whitish, as are also the basal nervures, 

 the others and the stigma fuscous. Head, pleurae and breast covered with 

 white pubescence. Base of mandibles brown. Basal half of mesonotum 

 punctured and striated : the metanotum opaque, closely, finely, irregularly, 

 transversely striated ; the top of the apical slope raised in the centre, bordered 

 below by a semi-circular depression. The 1st recurrent nervure is interstitial 

 with the 1st transverse cubital, the 2nd is received shortly beyond the middle ; 

 the front half of the 1st transverse cubital is straight and obliquely bent 

 towards the 2nd, which is straight and only slightly oblique, the 3rd is roundly 

 curved outwardly to shortly below the middle, where there is a longish stump 

 of a nervure, below which it is straight and bends towards the base of the 

 wing. Tibiae and tarsi spinose, the latter almost fuscous in colour. Mesopleu- 

 ral furrow narrow, but distinct. The anterior ocellus is not much larger 

 than the posterior ; there is a furrow on the lower half of the front, its top 

 projecting into the white frontal mark. Antennae stout, the basal 3 joints of 

 flagellum thinner than the others, the 3rd shortly, but distinctly, longer than 

 the 4th. Allied to A. nigricans, Cam. 

 Length 7 mm. $ 

 Habitat. — Deesa, 



ICHNKUMONID^. 



Paniscini. 

 Paropheltes, gen. nov. 

 Mandibles with a long, gradually narrowed upper tooth and an indistinct 

 subapical one. Clypeus broad, its apex transverse. Eyes large, slightly incised 

 on the inner side ; parallel, below reaching to the base of the mandibles. Temples 

 moderately wide, rounded behind. Occiput transverse. Ocelli large, placed 

 in a triangle, the outer placed close to the eyes. Third joint of antennae dis- 

 tinctly longer than the fourth. Scutellum not margined. Areolet triangu- 

 lar, the recurrent nervure interstitial with the 2nd transverse cubital nervure ; 

 disco-cubital nervure slightly broken ; the transverse median nervure received 

 beyond the transverse basal ; the transverse median nervure in hindwings 

 broken clearly above the middle. Fore claws (the others are broken) simple. 

 This genus can only be confounded with Opheltes from which it may be 

 known by the undernoted characters :— 



Mandibles broad, with 2 equal teeth, cheeks and temples broad, sides 



of middle breast divided by a deep transverse line in 2 parts Opheltes, Holm. 



Mandibles not broad, with a long upper and an indistinct lower tooth ; 

 cheeks and temples not broad ; mesoaternurm not divided by a transverse 



line ,. , Paropheltes. 



Paropheltes fiavolineatus, sp. nov. 



Luteous, the 3rd and following segments of the abdomen and the sheaths 



of the ovipositor blackish ; the head, except the occiput and the outer edge of 



the outer orbits, apex of prothorax, 2 broad lines on the mesonotum, sides of 



scutellum broadly, the tubercles, a broad curved mark on the base of the 



