NEW SPECIES OF HYMENOPTERA FROM INDIA. 85 



the middle, the apex of the hinder narrowly, and of the tibiae more 

 broadly, black. Abdomen shining, the black with a bluish tinge. The 

 wings have a slight fulvous tint. 



A smaller and more slenderly built species than C. lucn- 

 lentus. 



Cryptus luculentus, sp. nov. 



Niger; pedibus runs ; coxis trochanteribusque nigris ; alishyalinis, 

 stigmate testaceo, nervis fuscis. ? . Long. 17, terebra 5 mm. 



Hah. Simla (Nurse). 



Antennae entirely black ; the scape punctured and sparsely covered 

 with short hair. Head black ; the inner and outer orbits and a trans- 

 verse mark on the middle of the clypeus near the apex, yellowish. 

 Face closely and rather strongly punctured, and thickly covered with 

 white hair ; the centre is dilated broadly and roundly ; the clypeus is 

 more shining, and not quite so strongly punctured as the face. 

 Mandibles black, rufous behind the teeth. Thorax closely and dis- 

 tinctly punctured ; the pleurae more strongly than the mesonotum. 

 The punctuation on the sides and on the apical slope of the median 

 segment run into reticulations, this being also the case with the meta- 

 pleurae. The base of the median segment is obliquely depressed in the 

 middle ; the basal transverse keel on it is interrupted in the middle, 

 distinct on the sides, and projecting on the outer edge. Wings hyaline, 

 with a slight but distinct fulvous tinge. Abdomen smooth ; the middle 

 segments aciculated. Legs rufous ; the coxae and trochanters black ; 

 the hinder tarsi have a yellowish tinge ; they are distinctly spinose. 



Spilichneumon annulicornis, sp. nov. 

 Niger ; pedibus, scutello abdomineque late rufis ; annulo flagello 

 antennarum, abdominisque apice albis ; alis hyalinis, stigmate nervis- 

 que nigris ; apice tibiarum posticarum tarsisque posticis nigris. $ . 

 Long. 11 mm. 



Hab. Simla (Nurse). 



Antennae shorter than the body, black, the flagellum brownish 

 beneath towards the apex ; there is a broad white band beyond the 

 middle. Head black ; the inner orbits and the sides of the clypeus 

 broadly lemon-yellow ; the centre of the clypeus has a rufous tinge. 

 Face and clypeus closely punctured ; the front and vertex are quite as 

 strongly and closely punctured ; the mandibles are broadly rufous near 

 the middle. Thorax black, the scutellum yellow. Pro- and meso- 

 thorax closely and strongly punctured, and thickly covered with pale 

 pubescence ; the scutellum is not so closely punctured, and is covered 

 with long pale hair. Median segment closely and strongly punctured, 

 and thickly covered with longish white pubescence ; the areola is twice 

 longer than broad ; the basal half is slightly but distinctly narrowed, 

 its apex transverse ; the sides are stoutly transversely striated, the 

 centre aciculated ; in the middle of the apical half is a longitudinal 

 keel ; the apical slope is closely irregularly rugose. Pleurae closely, 

 almost rugosely, punctured, the metapleurae more coarsely than the 

 rest. Legs rufous ; the four anterior coxae and the trochanters pale 

 yellow ; the hinder coxae, the basal joint of the trochanters, the apical 



