PARASITIC HYMKA'OPTERA VKOM TUK SIKKIAI HIMALAYA. i r> 



Head smooth, shining, covered with short, pale pubescence, 

 the sides of the face above, the apex of clypeus broadly and 

 a narrow line on the lower two-thirds of the inner orbits, 

 yellow. Mesonotum shagreened, densely covered with fuscous 

 pubescence ; the pubescence on the scutellum is denser and 

 darker ; the sides and apex are stoutly keeled, the latter 

 roundly depressed above ; the apical slope is long, slightly 

 obliquely sloped. Post-scutelluin depressed laterally at the base, 

 and bordered on the outerside by stout curved keels ; the 

 foveae are narrowed on the innerside. Metanotum regularly 

 areolated ; there is a distinct, wide petiolar area, narrowed 

 towards the apex, open at the base, the keels extending only 

 to the top of the apical slope ; it is smooth, as are also the 

 large lateral basal areœ, except at the apex, where they are 

 sparsely punctured ; they reach to slightly beyond the apex 

 of the basal third of the areola. The latter is large, 6-augled, 

 transverse at base and apex, slightly Avidened where it is 

 joined by the lateral keels, about one third longer than wide; 

 there are 5 apical arege, the outer one shorter and narrowed 

 above. The areola is irregularly longitudinally striated, the 

 2"^ laterally closely, strongly, obliquely, the apical slope trans- 

 versely striated, the posterior median much more finely than 

 the lateral. Propleurse smooth, obscurely striated below ; this 

 being also the case with the mesopleurse except that the stria- 

 tion is much stronger ; the metapleurae strongly, closely, obli- 

 quely striated. Basal and apical segments of abdomen smooth, 

 the middle shagreened ; the base of the 2i"l between the 

 gastracoeli closely striated ; the latter are smooth on the 

 outer, striated on the innerside. Metanotal spines stout, longer 

 than they are wide at the base. 



This is a smaller s})ecies than the type of the genus 

 A. schizaspis Cam. i) from the Khasias ; it differs from it and 



1) The Enlomoloyist 1903, p. 110. 



