PARASITIC HYMKNOPTKRA KROM TUK 8IKKI1M HIMALAYA. ob 



the middle black, fuscous at the base, the posterior black ; 

 wings clear hyaline at the base, the rest light fuscous and 

 highly iridescent, the stigma and nervures black, cf. 



Length 10 m.m. 



Sikkim. 



Closely punctured allover, the scutellum more sparsely and 

 with the punctures larger ; the base of mesonotum closely 

 punctured in the middle, the sides more irregularly and 

 strongly ; the apical part stoutly reticutated ; the apex in the 

 centre with a stout longitudinal keel, followed by a smooth 

 line. Scutellum roundly convex, sparsely punctured, the apex 

 smooth ; the base keeled laterally. Metanotum stoutly reticula- 

 ted, the base in the centre with a square area, bordered by 2 

 larger, semicircular ones ; the latter are smooth at the base. 

 Top of propleurse finely closely punctured, followed by a smooth 

 space ; the rest stoutly longitudinally striated. Upper part of 

 mesopleurae stoutly, longitudinally reticulated at the base, the 

 apex closely punctured, followed below by a smooth space ; 

 the furrow broad, smooth at the base, the apex striated ; the 

 lower closely punctured, more or less reticulated ; the apical 

 furrow wide, stoutly, widely crenulated. Metapleurœ strongly 

 reticulated. Abdomen finely, closely, regularly punctured, the 

 apical segments smooth. Areolet small, square, receiving the 

 recurrent nervure close to the apex. 



Mesostenus interceptus sp. nov. 



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

 a line, broadly dilated above, on the upper inner orbits, the 

 base of pronotum broadly in the middle, a line round the 

 upper two thirds at the base, scutellums, the apical slope of 

 metanotum, the top with a shallow incision in the middle, 

 the sides rounded, a large mark, broad on the outer, gradually 

 narrowed on the inuerside behind the hind wings, a line, 



