Vol. 1] Bradley. — The Taxonomy of the Masarid Wasps 401 



Genus Quartinia Gribodo 



1904. Quartinia Cameron. Zeitschrift fiir systematische Hymenopterol- 

 ogie und Dipterologie, vol. 4, p. 89. 



(^. Head broad, transverse, the eyes very distant from each other 

 and from the ocelli ; somewhat, as in the females of Pseudomasans, 

 deeply incised, the incision broadly rounded, clypeus convex; its apex 

 broadly emarginate ; mandibles acute, a tooth on the inner margin near 

 the apex. Antennae shorter than the distance between the eyes on 

 the top of the head, resembling those of Pseudomasaris females ; the 

 scape is scarcely longer than broad, the pedicel very large, globose, 

 nearly as large as the scape, the third and following segments minute, 

 the eighth and twelfth united into an oval club, convex on all surfaces. 



Humeri rounded, parapsidal furrows wanting, mesonotura flattened 

 but not depressed in front of the slightly raised scutellum ; tegula very 

 large, considerably larger than the scutellum, very broadly rounded 

 rather than pointed posteriorly, covering the base of the scutellum, 

 with a few coarse punctures on the posterior part, this convex, rounded 

 at apex where it covers the rounded postscutellum ; propodeum poste- 

 riorly deeply concave, the margins thereof forming a sharp ridge sep- 

 arating the posterior from the lateral surface, but not carinate and 

 without spine or tooth. 



Forewings completely plaited longitudinally as in Cclonites or 

 Vespa; the medio-cubital cross-vein attached opposite to M^ + Cuj ; 

 in variegata veins, M^ and m appear as a mere trace, but not in the 

 genotype, a completely enclosed and very large triangular appendicu- 

 late cell present. Anterior trochanter unarmed ; middle tibia with two 

 weak apical spurs. I cannot make out the posterior tibial spur of 

 variegata, but in deleta 5 it appears to be slender and acute ; claws 

 small, apparently with a minute tooth beneath. 



Abdomen shaped as in Vespa, the last dorsal segment short and 

 rounded, its apex margined and deeply bifid ; apical margin of last 

 ventral segment sinuate with a broad median tooth. 



$. Except in the broadly rounded last abdominal segment the 

 female does not differ from the male. 



The generic description is drawn chiefly from Q. variegata Brauns, 

 but the 5 of the genotype was compared with it. It is not clear, how- 

 ever, that in the latter the wings are longitudinally plaited, and the 

 extent of the wing margin caudad of cell Mg is much less than in 

 variegata. 



Type. — Quartinia dilecta Gribodo, genus monobasic. 



Habitat. — Africa, India. 



