NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN TIYMENOPTERA. 5 



the lateral angles slightly raised and very conspicuous ; abdomen long- 

 er than the head and thorax united, first ventral segment with two 

 conspicuous tubercles, third ventral segment very much produced be- 

 low, seventh ventral segment with two small tubercles, pygidium elon- 

 gate, with a deep median groove, its apex notched; a little short, 

 sparse, silvery pubescence on the front, cheeks, legs, and apical abdo- 

 minal segments. Head with the clypeus, anterior portion of front, ver- 

 tex, and occiput black ; antennse yellow at base, gradually becoming 

 red at apex ; thorax black, the pronotum yellow, tubercles and a spot 

 above them yellowish red, scutellum and postscutellum red ; abdomen 

 yellow, the first segment and the depressed portions of the remaining 

 segments, including the pygidium, light red; the margins of all the 

 segments when extended very narrowly black ; legs red. Forewing 

 flavo-hyaiine, its apical margin lighter, the portion about tli3 appen- 

 dicular cell infuscated ; hindwing lighter flavo-hyaliue, its margin hya- 

 line ; nervures testaceous, tegulpe reddish yellow ; second cubital cell 

 very slightly stalked, third cubital cell reaching just beyond the apex 

 of the radial cell ; both recurrent nervures received into the second 

 cubital cell, the first just within its inner angle, the second one-third 

 the length of the cell on the cubital nervure from its outer angle. 



Long. 16 mm. 



Haritat : Deesa ; a single specimen. 



Palarus quiescens, n. sp. 



9 Clypeus with a few shallow punctures, front im punctate ; meso- 

 notum minutely and closely punctured at the sides, sparsely and coarse- 

 ly in the centre, scutellum with a few scattered punctures; median 

 segment striate, the striae longitudinal at base, oblique at the sides, 

 transverse at apex ; abdomen finely and closely, but somewhat irregu- 

 larly, punctured; the distance apart of the eyes at vertex is about the 

 length of the third joint of the antennse, which is the longest ; clypeus 

 small, convex, its anterior margin rounded, from its posterior margin 

 to the anterior ocellus runs a conspicuous ridge ; anterior ocellus the 

 largest, the posterior ones oval ; pronotum narrow, and depressed be- 

 low the level of the mesonotum ; median segment below the level of the 

 posts cmtellum, its posterior lateral angles raised and conspicuous ; pygi- 

 dium long and narrow, impunctate, with its margins raised \ ventral 

 segments not produced below. Yellow ;. the tips of the mandibles, two 

 irregular marks on the front between the base of , antennae and the 



