8 Cameron, Hyvienoptera Orientalia. 



on the apex above and more broadly black below ; the 

 hinder trochanters, the apex of the femora, the base of the 

 tibi.Te narrowly, the apex somewhat more broadly, the 

 metatarsus broadly at the base, the apex of the fourth 

 joint and the fifth entirely, black ; the rest white ; the tarsi 

 spinose. Wings short compared with the length of the 

 body, being distinctly longer than the head and thorax 

 united (8 as against 1 1 mm.) ; the areolet small, narrow, 

 longer than broad, of equal width throughout ; the second 

 transverse cubital nervure faint ; the transverse median 

 nervure is received distinctly behind the transverse basal ; 

 the recurrent shortly be}-ond the middle. Petiole slender, 

 longer than the second segment ; smooth ; the part 

 between the base and middle above and the apex yellow ; 

 the yellow mark on the latter is dilated in the middle at 

 the base ; at the base of the dilated apical part is, in the 

 middle above, a large, deep fovea ; the base of the second 

 segment is shining, shagreened, its base at the sides 

 obliquely depressed ; the rest of it and the third and 

 the fourth segments closely punctured ; the apex of the 

 second, of the third, and the others on the sides at the 

 apices, yellow ; the last is entirely yellow at the apex ; 

 the yellow on the lower sides of the apical segments is 

 more extended. 



Ceratocrvptus tibialis, sp. nov. 



Niger ; jiavo-inaculatiis ; pedibus rtifis, tibiis posticis 

 fuscis, coxis trochanter ibiisque aiiticis flavis ; alls fiilvo- 

 hyalinis, nervis stigmateque nigris. $ . 



Long. 19 mm. 



Apart from the differences in coloration this species 

 may be known from C. bitiiberculatus by having two short, 

 thick keels in the middle of the median segment at the 

 base. 



