Hymenoptera Orientalis. 137 



decidedly yellow or rather of a ferruginous colour, but in 

 this respect the wings vary. 



Common. Mussoorie hills {Rot/mey). Shanghai {Saus- 

 siire). 



4. Tachytes ornatipes, sp. nov. 



Niger, geniculis, tibiis tarsisqiie anterioribus, nifo-testa- 

 €eis ; alls fere fiavo-hyalinis, nervis testaceis ; clypeo, facie 

 thoraceque longe fulvo-hirtis. Long. 12 mm. 



Antennae stout ; the third joint hardly longer than the 

 fourth, and three times the length of the second. The hair 

 ■on the face and clypeus is long and dense, the front and 

 vertex sparsely haired, opaque and sparsely punctured on 

 the vertex, which is depressed and furrowed in the centre. 

 Eyes at top separated by the length of the third antennal 

 oint. Mandibles reddish at the basal half; punctured and 

 covered with silvery-golden hair ; palpi reddish testaceous. 

 Thorax opaque. Clypeus punctured ; the margin depressed, 

 incised in the middle, the scutellum distinctly punctured ; 

 the hair moderately long and thick ; the pronotum above 

 with a fringe of silvery pubescence. Abdomen shining ; the 

 segments bordered (except in the centre) with silvery 

 pubescence. Pygidial area densely covered with stiff 

 golden hair ; sharply narrowed towards the apex, which is 

 rounded. Ventral surface (especially towards the apex) 

 thickly covered with dark brown pubescence and with some 

 scattered longish hairs. Legs cinereous pilose ; the femora 

 with scattered hairs ; the anterior tibiae are entirely testa- 

 ceous ; the middle pair are broadly blackish in the centre ; 

 the posterior are black, testaceous at base and apex ; the 

 hind tarsi black, more or less testaceous at the apex and at 

 the apex of the two basal joints ; the spines pale testaceous ; 

 the spurs and claws for the greater part rufo-testaceous. 

 The second and third cubital cellules are subequal at the 

 top ; the first recurrent nervure is received at a little more 



