8 Cameron, Hymenoptcra Oricntalia. 



Head black, the sides of the clypeus and the greater 

 part of the mandibles in middle rufous ; the eyes very 

 distinctly margined on the inner side ; the front and 

 vertex closely punctured ; the clypeus, except at the 

 base, with very few punctures. Antennae stout, sparsely 

 and shortly pilose ; the middle of the flagellum broadly 

 white beneath and at the sides. Thorax black ; the 

 pronotum yellowish in the middle ; the mesonotum 

 coarsely alutaceous; the scutellum shining; post-scutellum 

 narrowed towards the base ; the part at the sides of the 

 scutellum behind with strong, stout keels, which become 

 wider from the inner to the outer side ; the part at the 

 sides of the post-scutellum crenulated. Median segment 

 large ; the apex with an oblique slope, roundly excavated 

 in the centre ; coarsely punctured ; the sides at the apex 

 irregularly obliquely striated ; all the areas completely 

 defined ; the central coarsely transversely striated ; there 

 are two stout keels bordering the central depression 

 on the apical part. Propleurae at the apex strongly 

 striolated ; the part above this coarsely punctured, the 

 puncturing becoming finer towards the top ; above the 

 front coxae are two stout, sharp keels, forming between 

 them a sharp channel. All the coxae and base of 

 trochanters black ; the apex of the hind tibiae and the 

 tarsi black ; the middle tarsi fuscous. The basal half 

 of the petiole black ; the apical rufous ; coarsely punc- 

 tured ; and with two sharp keels down the middle. The 

 second and third segments entirely rufous; the apical two 

 cream white above, except at the side of the penultimate ; 

 the ventral surface broadly rufous at the base; gastrocoeli 

 striated at the base. 



Ichneumon vishnu, sp. nov. 



Long, fere iomm. 6. 



Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



A species very like the above described species. It 



