NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN BYMENOPTERA. 25 



ASTATA LUCINDA, n. sp. 



Front and mesonotum minutely and shallowly punctured, scutel- 

 lum and postscutellum almost impunctate, median segment minutely 

 rugose, abdomen smooth and sinning ; clypeus very concave at base, its 

 anterior margin emarginate ; antennae long, filiform, the second joint of 

 flagellum longer than the third ; front above the base of antenna raised, 

 with a median notch ; an impressed longitudinal line on scutellum ; 

 abdomen small, shorter and narrower than the thorax, pygidium smooth. 

 Black ; a large irregular spot on the front below the ocelli, a spot below 

 the bases of the wings, and two oval spots on each of the first two 

 abdominal segments, yellow, the spots on first segment frequently coa- 

 lescing ; tibiae and tarsi of anterior legs red ; pubescence white, very fine 

 and silky, but somewhat sparse ; wings clear hyaline and iridescent, a 

 fuscescent patch on the radial and second and third cubital cells ; radial 

 cell short, broadly truncate at apex ; second cubital cell almost triangular > 

 third cubital cell about half as wide above as below ; tegulae yellow ; 

 nervures of forewing for the most part brownish testaceous, except for 

 a short distance from the tegulae, where they are very pale yellowish ; 

 those of hind wing very pale. 



Long. 6-8 mm. 



Habitat : Quetta ; six specimens. 

 Nearest to A. quadri punctata (Rad.); but may beat once distinguished 

 by the antennae being entirely black. 



Ammophila bolanica (Nurse). 



When I described this species in Journal Bombay Natural History 

 Society, Volume XV, p. 8, I had not obtained a male. I subsequently 

 caught both sexes in coitu, and found that the $ differs to a consider- 

 able extent from the 9 , so I give its full description. 



$ Head and thorax apparently finely punctured, but with the 

 sculpturing almost hidden by the pubescence ; median segment very 

 minutely striate, the striae at base being outwardly divergent, becoming 

 almost transverse towards the apex of the segment ; abdomen impunct- 

 ate, pruinose ; clypeus very long, its anterior margin produced and 

 slightly emarginate or notched ; scutellum slightly notched : median 

 segment rather long, gradually sloping and narrowed towards apex; 

 petiole slightly longer than the next abdominal segment. Black; 

 clypeus and front with rather long silvery pile, intermixed with long 

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