^6 Cameron, Hymtnoptera Oricntalia. 



shortly, but distinctly, longer than the fourth. The front 

 and oral region densely covered with silvery hair; the vertex 

 more sparsely with longer fuscous ; the front and vertex 

 strongly,but not very closely,punctured ; the antennal keels 

 distinct, sharp. Clypeus smooth and shining, largely pro- 

 jecting above ; the lower half obliquelv depressed, glabrous, 

 somewhat triangular in shape, the middle depressed ; 

 mandibles rufous in the middle ; the base punctured, 

 densely covered with pale golden hair ; the palpi brown, 

 darker above. Pronotum densely covered with silvery 

 pile, intermixed with long silvery hairs ; the mesonotum 

 shining, strongly, deeply and closely punctured, the 

 punctures forming distinct rows ; the two furrows are 

 deep, the hair is thick and blackish. Scutellum roundly 

 raised ; deeply punctured ; covered with long fuscous 

 hair ; its apex is oblique ; in the middle of the basal half 

 is a smooth shining line, bluntly lanceolate at the apex. 

 Median segment closely reticulated ; the basal part thickly 

 covered with depressed silvery pubescence ; the central 

 basal area is elongate ; the basal third wider than the 

 rest. Propleurae marked with stout keels, the apex smooth ; 

 the central ]jart of the mesopleuraj irregularly punctured, 

 and thickly covered with white hair ; the metapleuraj at 

 the base smooth above ; the lower part irregularl}-, and not 

 very strongly, reticulated ; the rest distinctly, but not very 

 closely, reticulated. Legs thickly covered with white hair ; 

 the spines and calcaria pale. Wings fusco-violaceous ; 

 the second cubital cellule at the top is slightly longer, at 

 the bottom twice the length of the third ; the first recurrent 

 nervure is received at the base of the apical third ; the 

 second in the middle of the cellule. Abdomen ferruginous; 

 the apical half of the penultimate and the whole of the 

 last segment black; all the segments sparsel}- covered 

 with long white hair ; the petiole is rather strongly 



