208 Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschv. 1909. 



Description of a New Genus and Species of Parasitic 

 Hijmenoptera, representing a New Tribe, from Kuching, 



BorDeo. 



By P. Cameron, New Mills by Stockport (England). 



Ettchellsia gen. nov. 



Wings witli a closed radial cellule, the apex of which does 

 not extend half way between the stigma and the apex of the 

 wing ; it is wide ; the radius in 3 abscissae, of which the apical 

 is the longer and is roundly, obliquely curved ; the 2^"^ is straight, 

 running parallel with the costa. There is one distinet transverse 

 cubital nervure and a second indicated by a hyaline line ; the 

 transverse basal and transverse median nervures are interstitial ; 

 the former united to the cubitus , there are no recurrent nor 

 disco-cubital nervure , but the anal nervure is complete , roundly 

 curved and issues from the lower part of the discoidal nervure. 

 Antennae 14-jointed, the 2^^"^ about 3 times longer than wide, the 

 3'''^ a little longer than the 4*^^; the joints elongate , the last 

 longer than the penultimate ; the antennae are placed close to 

 the mouth. Mesonotuni trilobate. Metanotum areolated. Abdomen 

 sessile , broadly ovate ; hypopygium cultriform , projecting , the 

 ovipositor as long as the body. Hind legs much stouter than 

 the others, the femora thickened , the hind coxae large ; middle 

 tibiae with one minute spur ; claws simple , distinet , curved. 

 First abdominal segment larger than any of the others. Head 

 wider than the thorax ; the temples obliquely narrowed ; the 

 occiput not margined. Eyes parallel, large, behind with a crenu- 

 lated border ; malar space distinet. Ocelli in a triangle. Palpi 

 long, slender. In the hind wings there is a narrow costal cellule, 

 near the end of which is a short oblique nervure, from which a 

 nervure runs along the fore margin. The costal cellule in the 

 fore wings is distinet. 



This genus does not fit into any of the recognized groups 

 of Terebrant Hymenoptera. It cannot be placed in the Evanüdae 

 because the abdomen does not issue from the upper part of the 

 metanotum , although the form of the head and thorax comes 

 nearer to what we find in Aulacus , than it does to these parts 

 in the Braconidae or Ichneumonidae. The alar neuration resembles 

 that of the Braconidae more than it does the Ichneumonidae. It 

 has some superficial resemblance to the Trigonalidae, but the ab- 

 domen is very differently formed from what it is in that group. 

 It cannot well be referred to the Braconidae except as an aberrant 

 niember of that group, e. g. the distinet costal cellule separates 



