PARASITIC HYMENOPTETÎA I'ROAf THE STKKIM HIMALAYA. (V 



side of coxiß, basal joint of trochanters and basal two-thirds 

 of hind tibiae yellow ; the spurs pale fulvous. The scape 

 beneath and joints 9 — 20 of flagellum white. Wings hyaline, 

 the nervures and stigma black, ç. 



Length 15 m.m. 



Sikkim . 



Face strongly, but not closely, the clypens much more 

 sparsely punctured ; the front and vertex very smooth, shining. 

 MesoDotum closely regularly, somewhat strongly punctured, 

 depressed laterally. Scutellum strongly, sparsely punctured. 

 Post-scutellum smooth. Petiolar area almost smooth; the areola 

 closely, strongly longitudinally reticulated ; the basal 2 lateral 

 arese weakly punctured, the 2"'^* at the apex strongly, obliquely 

 striated ; the upper third of posterior median area longitudin- 

 ally reticulated, followed by an irregularly closely transversely 

 striated part ; the apex is very finely transversely striated ; 

 the lateral area stoutly reticulated. Propleurse smooth, the 

 apex stoutly striated. Mesopleurae weakly punctured ; the meta- 

 pleurte strongly and closely. First abdominal segment smooth 

 and shining ; the 2»<1 and 3id closely strongly punctured, the 

 base of the 2'^^ strongly, of the 3''^ weakly striated; the other 

 segments smooth and shining. 



Platylabus forticarinatus, sp. uov. 



Black, the face, clypeus, labrum, mandibles, except the teeth, 

 palpi, inner and upper orbits narrowly, the outer from near 

 the top, the line becoming gradually widened below to the 

 middle, the lower part entirely, a line on the pronotum, not 

 reaching to the base, a broader one on the lower edge ofthe 

 propleurae, a line on the sides of the mesouotum at the tegulae, 

 the scutellar keels, scutellum, post-scutellum, the apex of meta- 

 uotum except the posterior median area, tubercles, lower half 

 of mesopleura^, mesosternum, u line down the apex of meso- 



