﻿Hymenoptera 
  Orientalis. 
  6 
  1 
  

  

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  ASTATA 
  ARGENTEOFACIALIS, 
  Sp. 
  IIOV. 
  

  

  Nigra, 
  argenteo 
  hirsiita, 
  subtilisme 
  punctata 
  ; 
  uietanato 
  

   rugoso 
  ; 
  abdoniine 
  fusco 
  \ 
  alls 
  hyalinis. 
  9. 
  Long. 
  8 
  mm. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  white 
  microscopic 
  pile 
  ; 
  the 
  

   third 
  joint 
  perceptibly 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  fourth. 
  Head 
  

   opaque, 
  coarsely 
  alutaceous 
  ; 
  the 
  occiput, 
  lower 
  part 
  of 
  

   front, 
  face, 
  and 
  clypeus 
  densely 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  silvery 
  

   pubescence 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  incurved 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  

   mandibles 
  piceous-red, 
  black 
  in 
  the 
  middle. 
  Thorax 
  

   opaque, 
  coarsely 
  aciculated 
  ; 
  the 
  metanotum 
  finely 
  rugose, 
  

   furrowed 
  down 
  the 
  centre, 
  near 
  to 
  the 
  apex 
  above 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  

   oblique, 
  coarsely 
  rugose 
  ; 
  the 
  pleurae, 
  the 
  pronotum 
  (except 
  

   in 
  the 
  centre), 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  mesonotum 
  ; 
  the 
  hollow 
  at 
  the 
  

   side 
  of 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  and 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  metanotum 
  densely 
  

   covered 
  with 
  silvery 
  pubescence. 
  Abdomen 
  shining, 
  very 
  

   finely 
  aciculate 
  ; 
  the 
  segments 
  lined 
  at 
  their 
  junction 
  with 
  a 
  

   silvery 
  pile 
  ; 
  the 
  basal 
  and 
  apical 
  segments 
  are 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   blackish. 
  Legs 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  silvery 
  pile 
  ; 
  the 
  spurs 
  and 
  

   spines 
  white. 
  The 
  second 
  cubital 
  cellule 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  is 
  half 
  the 
  

   length 
  of 
  the 
  third, 
  and 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  space 
  bounded 
  

   by 
  the 
  recurrent 
  nervures 
  ; 
  at 
  the 
  bottom 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  much 
  

   shorter 
  than 
  the 
  third 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  and 
  second 
  transverse 
  

   cubital 
  nervures 
  are 
  straight 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  recurrent 
  nervure 
  

   is 
  received 
  not 
  far 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  cellule, 
  the 
  second 
  

   at 
  nearly 
  double 
  the 
  distance 
  from 
  the 
  apex. 
  

  

  What 
  is 
  apparently 
  the 
  same 
  species 
  has 
  the 
  first 
  and 
  

   second 
  abdomial 
  segments 
  clear 
  red, 
  and 
  the 
  others 
  quite 
  

   black. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Barrackpore 
  {Rot/uiey). 
  

  

  ^ 
  ASTATA 
  NIGRICANS, 
  Sp. 
  IIOV. 
  

  

  Nigra 
  , 
  nitida, 
  punctata, 
  longe 
  argenteo 
  hirta 
  ; 
  metanoto 
  

  

  striolato 
  ; 
  alis 
  hyalinis, 
  nervis,fiiscis. 
  $ 
  . 
  Long, 
  fere 
  8 
  mm. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  thorax, 
  microscopically 
  pilose, 
  

  

  