Hymenoptera. ijj 



deep and distinct. Thorax shining, impunctate ; the meso- 

 notum sparsely, the metathorax more thickly and longly 

 haired ; metanotum with a very gradual slope to the apex. 

 Base of petiole very deeply excavated ; the inner furrow 

 wide ; the outer narrow and placed almost beneath the 

 edge. The oblique depression on the second segment is 

 wide, moderately deep, shining and impunctate ; suturiform 

 articulation shallow, curved, impunctate ; the apical branch 

 almost obsolete ; the furrow on the next segment is shallow 

 and not very distinct ; ventral apical segment ploughshare- 

 shaped. Wings longer than the body ; cubital nervure 

 curved upwards at the base. Legs stout, pilose. 



The ovipositor, long as it is, is hardly so long as in the 

 Japanese Bracon penetrator Smith {Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, 

 p. 413, pi. xliv., fig, i). Smith, it may be added, figures 

 and describes from Bogota an ichneumon, DolichoviiUis 

 longicauda {I.e., p. 412, pi. xliv., fig. 2 and 2d), which has 

 the body from 9 — 1 1 lines, and the ovipositor from 3^ — 6^ 

 inches in length. 



EVAN 1 1 D^. 



GaSTERUPTION ORIENTALE, Sp. 710V. 



Nigrum, tJiorace, basique coxaruni posticariun, nifis; 

 tJiorace rugoso ; capite laevo, albo-argeiiteo piloso ; alls 

 hyalinis. Long. 15 mm. 



Hab. Barrackpore, Bengal {G. A. J. Rothney). 



Antennae not much longer than the thorax, stout; the 

 third joint a little longer than the fourth, which is almost of 

 the length of the fifth. Head smooth, impunctate; the face 

 closely covered with a short silvery pile; behind the eyes 

 bearing (but not above) a scattered pubesence, longer and 

 more bristly than that on the face, hinder ocelli separated 

 by about the length of the third antennal joint, and by a 

 less distance from the eyes, which are distant from the 

 base of the mandibles by about the length of the second 



