Hynienoptera Orientalis. 133- 



golden hue ; the second cubital cellule is longer in com- 

 parison with the third ; the recurrent nervures are more 

 widely separated ; the pygidial area is less strongly pilose, 

 and wants the bristles on the surface and apex, being also 

 shorter, broader, and with the apex incised. 



Hab. Bangalore {Miis. CaL), Poona {Wroughton). 



PIAGETIA. 



PlAGETIA, Ritzema, £■«/. M. Mag., IX, 120 ; Kohl, Verh. 

 z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1884, p. 

 I. Piagetia Ritsenicc, Ritzema, Ent. M. Mag. IX., p. 120. 

 Hab. Sourubuya, Java. 



2. PlAGETI RUFICORNIS, Sp. IIOV. 



Nigra, antennis, ore, clypeo, prothorace, metathorace {medio 

 metanoti nigro') petiolo pedibusquc, riifis ; alis J lyalinis, fascia 

 substiginatali fiisca ; nervis testaceis. ?. Long. 9 mm. 



Antennje rather slender, almost bare. The second joint 

 half the length of the fourth, which is shorter than the third. 

 Head wider than the thorax, opaque, finely granular ; a 

 furrow runs down from the ocellus to the base of the 

 antennae, and there is a wider curved furrow on either side 

 of the front ; clypeus broadly keeled (the keel narrowed at 

 base), densely covered with a silvery pubescence, the apex 

 with an incision in the middle. Eyes at the top separated 

 by the length of the third antennal joint. Mandibles 

 black at the apical half Thorax finely aciculated, 

 covered with a close silvery pile ; the metanotum finely 

 rugose, with a shallow depression in the centre 

 having a fine keel in the middle. The mesopleurai and 

 sternum are entirely black ; the mesopleural suture rather 

 indistinct ; the mesonotum is broadly rufous on either side 

 at the base. Pygidial area almost bare, and marked all 

 over with large punctures. The second cubital cellule at 

 the top is longer than the third ; the recurrent nervures are 



