2 CA^rERON, Hymaioptera Orientalia. 



closely with large deep i)unctures and thickly with long 

 dark fuscous hair ; between and below the antenn;e is a 

 tuft of long pale hair. The face and clypeus smooth and 

 shining ; the sides and the lower orbits with a dense band 

 of silvery pubescence. Mandibles black ; their basal half 

 thickly covered with long pale hair. On the upper half 

 of the face in the centre is a stout keel. Pronotum 

 coarsely punctured ; the propleurx bearing stout oblique 

 keels ; the ape.x; smooth. Mesonotum shining, bearing 

 large deep punctures all over and sparsely covered with 

 long black hairs ; the two furrows are wide and deep. 

 Scutcllum large, pyramidal, and covered with large deep 

 punctures, the top rounded, blunt, smooth and shining ; 

 post-scutcllum smooth in the middle, the sides punctured ; 

 both are covered with long black hair. Mctanotum 

 reticulated, thickly covered with silvery pubescence, the 

 basal third of the area wide ; the apex rounded ; the 

 middle obliquely narrowed. The raised central part of 

 the mesopleurae coarsely punctured and thickly covered 

 with long white hair. Metapleura,^ reticulated ; the middle 

 smooth. Legs thickly covered with long white hair ; the 

 spurs pale. Wings deep violaceous ; the basal two 

 cubital cellules streaked with hyaline in the middle ; the 

 second and third cubital cellules are almost equal in length 

 on the top ; the first recurrent nervure is received shortly, 

 but distinctly, beyond the middle ; the second near the 

 base of the apical fourth. Abdomen ferruginous ; the 

 petiole and apical segment black ; the petiole is strongly 

 and deeply punctured and covered with long white hairs ; 

 the second segment is sparsely punctured, almost im- 

 punctate in the middle ; the apices of the second to 

 sixth segments fringed with bright golden, the last with 

 long black hair, except in the middle, which is smooth 

 and shining. The base of the under side of the petiole has 



