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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    45.. Epirhyssa flavobalteata, Cam. Epirhissaf avohaUeata, Cameron,* Manch. Mom, 1899, p. 129 f 5), Epirhyssa 7ii(;rohalteata, Cameron,* Journ. Str. Br, R, Asiatic Sec. 1903, p. 134; cf. Ann, Nat, Hist, xx, 1907, p. 16, A fulvous species, with flavous markings, and the apices of the- wiogs and antennte nigrescent. Head fulvous, with the apical half of the frons and the whole of the closely punctate and white- pilose face flavous; vertex pos- teriorly rufescent; clypeus shorty with its a])ex laterally rounded and the base trilobate, the central lobe being curved and the lateral ones smaller and much more- dee ply impressed ; mandibles short and broad, with the apical half black and the basal rufescent; palpi stramineous. AntenncB dark red, nigrescent towards their apices, with the scape flavescent beneath. TAov-acr flavescent, with the mesonotum strongly striate,, dark red, and its disc centrally black, its central lobe elevated,, flavous-marked and apically per- I'ig- 19- pendicular ; ^^I'opleurse punctate- Epirhyssa jlavobaltcata, Cam. ^^-(.j^ ^j^^ ^^^^^ half smooth and black ; mesopleursD apically black with two oblique nigrescent bands ; mesostei'num closely and strongly punctate; metanotum evenly rounded, with shallow and distinct punctui-es, centrally deeply canaliculate, basally black,, shining, centrally broadly impressed and carinate on either side, with the apex black and subimpunctate; metapleurse black andi impressed at base and apex, carinate below the spiracles. Scutelliim and postscutellum flavous ; the latter basally bifoveate,, the former transversely strigose and apically black. Abdomen dark red, with apices of all the segments broadly flavous; two basal segments feebly and isolatedly punctate, the central ones much more closely and strongly, and the remainder closely but less distinctly and densely infuscate-pilose ; terebra distinctly a little longer than the body. Legs flavous, with the femora f ulvescent and the hind coxse darker; tarsi nigrescent. Wings fulvescent-hyaline, with the stigma testaceous red, the nervures^ infuscate and a subapical infumate fascia; fenestras of second' recurrent nervure large. Lenglli 13-22 millim. Assam : Kliasi Hills {Eoilmey, type). Malay States : Perak. (Dr. Hanitsch). Borneo. Type in the British Museum,