IV. Hymenoptera Orientalia, or Contributions to a 

 knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the Oriental 

 Zoological Region. Part V. 



[Communicated by J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S.] 



Received November 9th. Read November 17th, 1896. 



In view of the fact that Colonel C. T. Bingham is at 

 present engaged on a Monograph of the Indian Hymenop- 

 tera, I deem it advisable to give in this part of my paper 

 descriptions of new species only, leaving the information 

 I possess regarding the distribution and habits of the 

 known species to be dealt with in another paper. 



Compared with the immense number of parasitic 

 Hymenoptera (Ichneumonidse, Braconidae, &c.) known 

 from the Nearctic and Palaearctic zoological regions they 

 are but feebly represented, in fact they are almost absent 

 in the southern parts of the Indian Peninsula; but they 

 appear to be more numerous in Ceylon, and are probably 

 not uncommon in the Himalayas. 



$. Long. 15 mm. 



Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Head black, shining, the face strongly, the front and 

 vertex much less strongly punctured ; the orbits on the 

 top and bottom and on the inner side, on the bottom very 



By Peter Cameron. 



ICHNEUMONIDiE. 



Ichneumon clotho, sp. nov. (PI. 3, f. 1). 



Niger, abdomine ccendeo ; tinea antennarum, orbitis 

 oculorum, scutello, post-scutelloque albis ; alts fusco-hyalinis. 



Feb. 22nd, 1897. 



