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.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    or setaceous, verj^ rarely incrassate in the centre or at the apices. Thorax stout; inetathorax distinctly or obsoletely areated, longi- tudinal costfe usually present; spiracles circular, more rarely ovate. Abdomen of various outhne, depressed or in the females apically subcompressed ; basal segment sessile or subsessile, nearly straight and rarely subarcuate ; its spiracles before, more rarely in .or slightly behind, the centre ; terebra always very short, more rarely concealed and at most hnt subexserted. Legs usually somewhat elongate, but in one tribe strongly incrassate; tibial calcaria sometimes wanting; claws not unusually strongly pec- tinate. Wings normal or ample; areolet wanting, triangular or rhomboidal, never pentagonal. Subfamily OPHiONiifiE. Head transverse or buccate; eyes oblong, often emarginate next the scrobes; face nearly always with sericeous pilosity and often prominent; clypeus usually indistinctly disci-ete; man- dibles narrowed apically, ^^ith the teeth subequal. Antennae filiform or setaceous, usually strongly elongate. Thorax stout, more rarely subcompressed, very finely punctate and occasionally glabrous, rarely rugose ; metathorax often longitudinally impressed, the arese wanting or inconspicuous, areola often semicircular; spiracles circular or oblong. Abdomen strongly compressed throughout, or towards the anus only ; petiolate, elongate and often linear; terebra sometimes short, often half but not often fully the length of the body; basal segment narrow and sublinear, rarely abruptly dilated at the apex, its spiracles in or beyond, rarely before, the centre. Legs normal or elongate, hind femora rarely incrassate and dentate, their tarsi sometimes spatuliform and claws rarely pectinate. Wings normal, often narrow; areolet triangular, rhomboidal, often petiolate or wanting, never pent- agonal ; stigma sometimes very lai'ge and semicircular ; radial cell sometimes broadly trapeziform. Subfamily CRYPTiifiE. Head generally transverse or tumidulous, more rarely sub- globose ; eyes oblong or round, entire or nearly so; clypeus often discrete; mandibles more rarely uarrowed apically, bidentate, with the teeth usually of equal length. Antennae setaceous, often very slender or incrassate throughout, sometimes pauci-articulate. Thorax stout, finely punctate ; mesonotal notauli distinct; meta- thorax usually completely areated, though sometimes with trans- verse carinas only; apophyses often prominent; spiracles sub- circular, more rarely ovate; raesosternum always with distinct lateral sulci. Abdomen distinctly petiolate, very rarely subsessile or subcompressed ; basal segment arcuate, longer than the width of.