48 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



petiole, with its spiracles placed in the middle, by the 

 longer and more slender le<7s, and b\' the lonerer abdomen. 



J AYR A I'ARVICEPS, Sp. nov. 



Nigra; annjilo antennanim, facie, ore, maridibulis, palpis, 

 tegulis, saitello, post-scutello coxisque anterior ibus alhis ; a/is 

 hyalinis, stigmate fiisco. $ . 



Long. 8 mm. 



Antennae black ; the scape and the fourteenth to 

 twentieth joints white ; the base of the flagellum 

 brownish ; thickly covered with stiff hairs, which are 

 shorter towards the apex. Head black ; the entire face, 

 the clypeus, mandibles (except at the apex), and the palpi, 

 clear white ; the face and cl)-peus smooth and impunctate, 

 sparsely covered with short white hair ; the rest of the 

 head also smooth and impunctate, almost glabrous. Thorax 

 black ; the base of the prothorax, the scutellum, post-scu- 

 tellum, tubercles and tegular, clear white. Mesonotum 

 shining, covered with a microscopic fuscous pubescence ; 

 the parapsidal furrows only distinct on its basal half Scu- 

 tellum smooth, covered with short, jjale hairs. Median 

 segment thickly covered with longish white hair; the basal 

 areae with the keels interrupted and consequently they are 

 not defined ; the posterior median area is wide, rounded at 

 the base, slightly narrowed towards the apex. Proplcurai 

 smooth, the upper part with a narrow furrow ; the base 

 behind the white line and the apex stoutly striated ; 

 mesonotum smooth, the lower part in the centre with a 

 broad, slightly oblique, striated band ; the lower half of 

 the metapleurae clo-sely and finel}' punctured. Mesoster- 

 num smooth, shining ; thickly covered with short, pale 

 pubescence ; the lateral furrow reaches shortly beyond the 

 middle ; the centre is widely depressed, especial 1\- on the 



