NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN HYMENOPTERA. m 



10. Crabro grassator^ sp. nov. 

 $, Head broad, broader than the thorax front, vertex, pro- and 

 mesonotum finely and very closely punctured, with an opaque and 

 somewhat granular appearance, scutellum, postscutellum, and median 

 segment more coarsely punctured, the last with a medial deep trans- 

 versely striate and somewhat broad furrow, meeting in T-fashion a 

 furrow running between the postscutellum and median segment ; 

 abdomen smooth, polished, elongate, oval in shape, the basal segment 

 gradually broadening from base to apex. Black, the base of the man- 

 dibles, the scape of the antenn?e in front, a medially interrupted line 

 on the posterior margin of the pronotum, tha tubercles, the greater 

 part of the legs, and ovate spots at the base of the 2nd, 4th, and 

 5th abdominal segments above yellow, the spots on the latter two 

 segments having a greenish tinge ; the clypeus, which is sub-porrect, and 

 front of the face covered with dense silvery pile, the coxse and greater 

 part of the femora of the legs black, the tarsi stained ferruginous > 

 wings hyaline, lightly sub -fuscous, nervures and tegulai dark brown. 



$. Lenylh 9; iwp. 16 mm. 



Hab. kSimla. 



Closely allied to C. odontopliornsi^ Cam., and C. xxnkns. Cam., 

 but diffeving from both in mafkings, and vei'y conspicuously in structure 

 nnd sculj'ture. 



Family Eumenid.e, Westro. 

 11. Eumenes antenriata, sp. nov., pi. A, f;, 8. 



$. V^ertex of the head, the mesonotum, the petiole of the abdomen, 

 and 2nd abdominal segment above coarsely punctured, remahider of 

 the head, thorax, and abdomen smooth but dull and opaque in appearance; 

 clvpeus elongate scutifbrm, deeply emarginato at apex ; scape of the 

 antenna3 very thick and massive; petiole of abdomen narrowed at base, 

 sub-tubetculate on the middle laterally. Black, the mandibles, clypeus, 

 iiice in front, the emargination of the eyes, a line behind them, the sc5\po 

 of the antennrc, the pronotnm, two cresceutic spots anteriorly on the 

 mesonotum, two smaller quadrate spots on the same in the middle, the 

 scutellum, a line posteriorly on the postscutellum, the whole of the 

 median segment, except a small triangular spot at its base, the meso- 

 pleurse, the legs, two spots at the base, two laterally on the midille and 

 the apes broadly of the petiole, and the greater part of the rest of the 

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