Volume 3

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford, A.E. Shipley, assisted by A.K. Marshall. Hymenoptera. Vol.I, Wasps and bees. Vol.II, Ants and cuckoo-wasps / by C.T. Bingham. Vol. III, Ichneumonidae:-I. Ichneumones Deltoidei / by Claude Morley.

Date:
1897-1913
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Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford, A.E. Shipley, assisted by A.K. Marshall. Hymenoptera. Vol.I, Wasps and bees. Vol.II, Ants and cuckoo-wasps / by C.T. Bingham. Vol. III, Ichneumonidae:-I. Ichneumones Deltoidei / by Claude Morley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Genus EPIRHYSSA, Cress. Epirhyssa, Oresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. 1865, p. 39. Rhyssonota, Kriecbbaumer, Ann. Nat. Plofmiis. Wien, 1890, p. 489. GrENOXYPE, E. speciosu, Cress. A genus of A'ery large and strongly elongate species, with trans- striate mesonotmn and the terebra longer than the whole body. Head short, subbuccate and transverse, usually dilated behind the oval and siibreniform eyes ; clypeus very short, strongly trans- verse and apically subproduced centrally, often basally discrete; mandibles stout and basally broad. Antenna) slender and filiform, not attenuate ; flagellar joints elongate. Thorax subcylindrical and discally deplanate; mesonotum closely and regularly trans- strigose througliout, with the notauli entire and often deeply impressed; metanotuni longitudinally canaliculate, with the spiracles oblong or ovate, and the areas obsolete. Scutellum subcouvex. Abdomen cylindrical, sessile, smootli and nitidulous, obsoletely alutaceous; ventral valvnlae of c? exserted ; anus of 5 snbcompressed, third segment not basally impressed, eighth exserted and triangular, hypopygium not reaching base of terebra. Legs, and especially the hind ones, elongate, with tarsal claws simple and posterior coxos subcylindrical. Wings ample, though not broad, with areolet entirely wanting ; nervellus intercepting recurrent nervure close to its junction with the median vein. Range, lu America the genus has a wide distribution, from Brazil to Canada, and is also found in Cuba ; but elsewhere, the representatives here enumerated, with a few from the Malay Region, are the only ones at present known from the Old AVorld, with the exception of single Japanese and Annamese species. This genus differs from Rhyssa, to which it is closely related in its strongly trans-striate mesonotum, in having the alar areolet ■entirely wanting. Tahle of Species. 1 (2) Abdomen and legs uot black-marked .... flavohalteata, Cam., 2 (1) Abdomen and legs broadly black-marked. [p. 88. 3 (4) Fi-ons carinate; scutellum punctate ; abdomen mainly red carmifro7is, Cam., 4 (3) Frons not carinate ; sciitelUim striate.^ [p. 89. 5 (6} Abdomen Havous; scutellum apically black ; all femora immaculate maculicornis, Cam., 0 (5) Abdomen fulvous; scutellum pale; all [p. 89. femora black-marked omatipcs, Cam., [p. 90.