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CRABRONID^. 



RlIOPALUM BUDDHA, Sp. UOV. 



Nigrum, opacuni, flavo-maailatum ; metathorace riigoso ; 

 alis hyalinis. Long. 9 mm. 



Hab. Poona, India. {R. C. Wrougkton.) 



Scape clear yellow, flagellum closely covered with a 

 silvery pubescence. Head opaque, alutaceous, the vertex 

 sparsely pilose ; the antennal depression and clypeus densely 

 covered with silvery hair. Ocelli in a curve ; the clypeus 

 carinate in the middle ; mandibles clear yellow, the tips 

 blackish. Eyes with very course facets. Thorax opaque, 

 alutaceous ; the excavated side of the pronotum coarsely 

 obliquely striolated ; the metathorax obliquely rugosely 

 punctured, sparsely covered with a silvery pile, especially 

 thick and close on the pleuree ; two broad lines on the 

 pronotum, two below the tegulse, and two on the scutellum, 

 clear yellow ; tegulae piceous. Basal part of the petiole 

 shining, covered with long white hair, the apial part opaque. 

 The rest of abdomen almost opaque, with a plumbeous hue ; 

 the sides and apex covered with a white pubescence ; an 

 interrupted band on the base of the third segment, and a 

 short lateral band on the succeeding segments, clear yellow. 

 Legs covered with long white soft hair ; the apex of cox«, 

 the trochanters beneath, a broad band on the lower side of 

 the four anterior femora, and the tibiae and tarsi, yellow ; 

 there is a black line behind on the tibiae, and the tarsi are 

 reddish towards the apex. 



The North Indian RJiapalum flavopictinuni. Smith, differs 

 from the present species in having " an impressed oblique 

 channel running down from each of the posterior ocelli," 

 the first scutellum and the petiole are yellow ; there is " an 

 enclosed shining subcordate space at the base of the 

 metathorax, which has a longitudinal impressed line from 

 the base to the apex," &c. 



