Hipnenoptera. 323 



pubescence. Tubercles large, rouad, reddish. Third cubital 

 cellule short, in front hardly longer than the space bounded by 

 the 2ntl transverse cubital and 2nd recurrent nervures. The 

 underside of the petiole and the gi-eater part of the 3rd and J:th 

 abdominal segments, rufous. The 4 front legs ai'e light red ; the 

 trochanters and basal three-fourths of the femora black above ; the 

 hind coxae, trochanters and femora, except at the apex, black, the 

 rest of the legs of a darker red than the anterior. 



StizHfi Johannis^ sp. nov. 



Length 9-10 mm. 



Februar3\ 



Belongs to the group of tridois, having the same form and 

 colouration. Median cellule in liindwings emitting only an 

 anterior nervure. Lateral incision in sides of median segment 

 hirge, twice longer than wide, rounded ; the upper angle broad, 

 rounder, the lower short, acute. 



Black, covered with a closely silvery pubescence, the clypeus, 

 face, lower inner orbits, opposite the antennae, base of mandibles, 

 a narrow, short line, near the top of the upper eye orbits, lower 

 part of scape, the hind edge of pronotum, the line extending on 

 to the tubercles, a small oval mark behind the latter, • line along 

 the apical half of the sides of the mesonotum, a mark longer than 

 wide on the sides of the scutellem, not quite reaching to the apex, 

 a broad curved line on the postscutellum, broad lines on the 

 apices of the abdominal segments — the basal 2 broadly dilated 

 backwards on the sides, and the apical 3 bortlered with brown, — 

 and fascial on the 2nd and following ventral segments — dilated 

 laterally and in the centre. The 2nd cubital cellule not peduncu- 

 lated, at the top separated by the length of the space bounded 

 by the 2nd transverse cubital and 2nd recurrent nervures. The 

 legs. yellow, the coxae, trochanters, a line behind on the 4 front 

 tubiae, one in the centre of tibite and the basal half of the hind 

 femora, black. The flagellum of antennae reddish brown, black 

 above. 01yi)eus not clearly separated, densely pilose. Front and 

 vertex shagreened. Thorax above closely, minutely punctured, 

 as are also the basal segments of the abdomen. 



