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NEW SPECIES OF HYMENOPTEEA (ACULEATA, ICH- 

 NEUMONID^, AND BRACONIDiE) FROM INDIA. 



By P. Cameron. 



(Concluded from p. 86.) 



Spilichneumon coxalis, sp. nov. 



Niger ; facie, clypeo, mandibulis, linea prouoti, mesosterno, scu- 

 telloque flavis ; abdominis medio late rufo ; apice petioli flava : pedi- 

 bus rufis, coxis posticis, apice tibiarum posticarum tarsisque posticis 

 nigris. S • Long. 10 mm. 



Hab. Simla (Nurse). 



Antennae black ; tbe under side of the scape yellow, of the flagellum 

 brownish ; they are hardly longer than tbe body, and taper perceptibly 

 towards the apex, where they are serrate. Head black ; the face, 

 clypeus, mandibles, the inner orbits to the occiput narrowly, and the 

 outer from near the top broadly, yellow. Face and clypeus closely, 

 uniformly, and distinctly punctured ; the front and vertex are more 

 closely punctured. Mandibles yellow, their teeth black, the part 

 behind them rufous ; palpi pale yellow. Thorax black, shining ; the 

 edge of the prouotum, the scutellum, the apex of the post-scutellum, 

 the tegula?, and the tubercles pale yellow. Mesonotum closely and 

 uniformly punctured, the scutellum fiat and less closely punctured. 

 Post-scutellum smooth ; its sides at the base largely depressed. Median 

 segment closely and distinctly punctured, the base and the areola 

 smooth and shining ; tbe apical slope is thickly covered with white 

 hair ; the areola is twice longer than wide ; the basal keel is flat, wide, 

 and broken in the middle ; the apex is transverse ; the inner side is 

 bordered by a wide furrow ; in the centre of the apex is a small 

 triangular projection ; the surface is finely sbagreened. Pleurae 

 closely punctuied ; the apex of the pro- irregularly striated. Wings 

 clear hyaline, the stigma and nervures black. The four anterior legs 

 are reddish fulvous ; the coxas and trochanters pale yellow, the hinder 

 coxae black, their apex yellow all round, the basal joint of the trochan- 

 ters black, as is also the apex of the hinder femora narrowly, the 

 apical two-thirds of the tibia?, and the tarsi entirely ; the calcaria pale 

 yellow. Petiole black ; the apex with a yellow band, which is narrowed 

 in the middle ; the second, third, and basal half of the fourth segment 

 rufous ; the rufous band on the fourth extends to the apex ; there is a 

 narrow yellow band on the apex of the fifth, a large one on the apex of 

 the sixth, and the seventh segment is entirely yellow. The segments 

 and the post-petiole are thickly covered with short white pubescence, 

 and closely punctured ; the gastrocoeli are small, deep, and smooth. 



Cratichneumon erythrozonus, sp. nov. 

 Niger ; abdomine late femoribusque posticis rufis ; alis hyalinis, 

 nervis stigmateque nigris. $ . Long. 11 mm. 



Hab. Simla (Nurse). 



Antennaa as long as the body ; tbe flagellum brownish beneath. 



