142 P. Cameron. 



On a New Genas and Some New speeies of 

 Ichneumonidae froiii the Sikkiin Himalaya» 



(Hym.) 

 By P. Cameron. 



(Coutiuued.) 



16. Leptothecus flavomaculatus, sp. nov. Q . 



Black, the head and thorax raarked with rufoas, the 

 abdomen ferruginous, the face, clypeus, labrum, orbits aud 

 palpi, yellow, a broad line on the pronotum, a narrower oue 

 on the base of the propleurae, the tubercles, the uuder half 

 of the mesopleurae, Hhe apex of the scutellum, the post- 

 scutellum, the sides of. the media» segment broadly at the 

 apex and a large crescent-shaped raised mark behind the 

 metathoracic spiracles, white, tinged with yellow. The 10th 

 to 18th joints of the antennae clear white, the scape rufous, 

 punctured, sparsely covered with short hair; the ilagellum at 

 the base more or less brownish. Face strongly punctured, 

 covered with short white hair, the clypeus punctured at the 

 base. Base of inaudibles white, piceous behiud the teeth. 

 Front and vertex strongly punctured, the former with a 

 narrow central furrow, the vertex obliquely depressed. Meso- 

 notum closely punctured, thickly covered with a short white 

 down. Scutellum strongly and closely punctured, the basai 

 keels yellow. The basai areae on the metauotum are closely, 

 rugosely punctured, the areola closely trausversely striated 

 and with 2 short longitudinal keels at the apex; the posterior 

 mediau area is much more strongly aud less closely traus- 

 versely striated, except at the base, where there is, in the 

 middle, a stout, longitudinal keel; the spiracular area 

 stoutly obliquely striated. Teeth large, broad at the base, 

 the top almost mitre-shaped. Pleurae closely puuctured, the 

 pro- in the middle at the apex strongly striolated. Abdomen 

 lor the most part closely punctured; the gastrocoeli shallow, 

 deepest on the outerside. Legs rufous, the 4 anterior coxae 

 and trochauters aud the hiuder tarsi white, the hinder coxae 

 blaok, rufous and white behind, the basai joint of the 

 trochanters and the tibiae yellowish-white. Wings hyaline, the 

 nervures black, the stigma fuscous. Q. — Length 14 mm. 





