84 Cameron, Hymcnof^tera Oricntalia. 



BrACON FIRMUS, Sp. 710V. 



Niger, protJioracc, mcsofioto, vicsopleiiris saitelloqne riijis; 

 alis Jusco-Jiyalinis, stigmatc fusco. cJ . (?) 



Long. 7 mm. 



Antenn.t black ; the scape bearing long black hairs ; 

 the flagellum almost bare. Front and vertex shining, 

 smooth, the vertex covered with long black hairs ; the 

 ocelli bordered by a distinct furrow ; the front has a wide 

 and deep furrow, with oblique sides ; the face opaque, 

 thickly covered with long fuscous hair ; the clypcus is 

 bordered laterally by a wide and deep furrow ; the top 

 by a narrow, shallow one. Mandibles rufo-testaceous, 

 their teeth black ; the palpi pale testaceous, blackish at 

 the base. Thorax smooth and shining ; the pro- and 

 meso-thorax ferruginous, except the mesosternum and a 

 large mark, interrupted narrowly in the middle, on the 

 apex of the mesopleuraj. Metaplcura^ thickly covered 

 with long fuscous hair ; the basal slope of the meso- 

 sternum is red, except for a somewhat triangular black 

 mark on either side at the apex. Legs black, the spurs 

 white ; the tibiae and tarsi thickly covered with white 

 hair. Wings fusco-hyaline ; the stigma blackish ; the 

 nervures fuscous ; the second cubital cellule is distinctly 

 shorter than the third ; the .second transverse cubital 

 ncrvure is faint, and is bullated at the top and bottom. 

 The base of the petiole is deeply depressed ; the apical 

 part coarsely irregularly punctured, and keeled down the 

 middle ; the depressed sides are obliquely striated at the 

 base ; the apex rugose ; the second segment is irregularly 

 rugosely striated ; the triangular base of the central keel, 

 the triangular sides at the base and the apex, smooth and 

 shining ; the lateral depression is bordered on the inner 

 side by a stout keel ; on the outer edge at the base are 



