78 Cameron, Hymcnoptcra Oricntalia. 



verse, the sides oblique. Mandibles rufous, their base black, 

 and thickly covered with depressed silver}- ]^ubescence ; 

 the palpi are dark brown. Thorax densely covered with 

 silvery pile ; the prothorax is obliquely depressed on the 

 apex; the base is distinctly separated from the others. 

 Mesothorax thickly covered with silver)' pile; the scu- 

 tellum and post-scutellum are more shining and minutely 

 punctured ; there is a shallow oblique furrow on the 

 mesopleunt. The median segment has a gradually 

 rounded slope ; in the centre is a narrow shallow furrow. 

 Wings fusco-hyaline, darker along the costa ; the apex 

 is infuscated from the end of the radial cellule ; the 

 radial cellule is wide to the third transverse cubital 

 ncrvurc; the ajiical abscissa of the radius has two oblique 

 curves ; the apex forms an acute angle ; the first trans- 

 verse cubital nervure forms two curves, the upper being 

 more sharply oblique ; the second cubital cellule at the 

 top is one-third of the length of the second ; the two 

 recurrent nervures are received shortly behind the middle. 

 Legs densely pruinose ; the calcaria dark testaceous. 

 Abdomen densely pruinose, the segments darker at the 

 base. 



PO.MPILUS TArUOHAN.E, Sp. HOV. 



Niger, dense pnihiosHs ; alis Jiyali}iis,apiee fumatis. $, 



Long, fere 7 mm. 



One example, Trincomali, Ceylon {RotJiney). 



The lower part of the vertex and the oral region 

 densely covered with a silvery jiile ; smooth and shining ; 

 the eyes at the top are separated by the length of the 

 third antennal joint ; the hinder ocelli are separated from 

 each other by a slightly greater distance than thev- are 

 from the eyes. Middle of clypeus transverse, the sides 

 rounded. Pronotum large, rounded at the base, slightly 



