PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA FROM THE SIKKIM HIMALAYA. 87 



of apical slope metanotum, the top obliquely narrowed to a 

 sharp point, the greater part of the metapleurae and broad 

 bands on the apices of the abdominal segments, pale yellow. 

 Four front legs pale yellow, the middle tarsi infuscated ; the 

 hind legs darker coloured ; the femora rufous ; the outer side 

 of the cox», trochanters, the apex of femora narrowly, the » 

 base of tibiae much more narrowly, the apex of tibiae more 

 broadly than the femora and the base of the metatarsus to 

 near the middle, black. Wings hyaline, the nervures and 

 stigma black, the areolet square, d^. 



Length 8 m.m, 



Sikkim. 



Head, pro- and mesothorax smooth, except that the face is 

 obscurely punctured, and that the sutures are crenulated. Base 

 of metanotum smooth, with 2 converging keels running from 

 the top of the basal slope to the apex ; the space between the 

 transverse keels irregularly obliquely striated, smooth in the 

 middle at the base ; the apical slope bounded by a keel above, 

 irregularly, somewhat stoutly reticulated. Pleurae smooth ; the 

 middle of the pro- fit the apex and of the meso-above, striated. 



Mesostenoideiis latispina sp. nov. 



Black; the face, clypeus, labrum, mandibles, palpi, the orbits, 

 except the outer at the top, the latter broadly, the base of 

 the prothorax, a broad line on the pronotum, tegulae, a mark 

 near the apex of the mesonotum, scutellar keels, scutellum, 

 except the basal slope, post-scutellum, the sides and top of 

 the apex of metanotum, the top part roundly dilated, longer 

 than broad, tubercles, a mark, longer than wide, obliquely 

 narrowed at the apex, on the lower part of the baseofmeso- 

 pleurae, a smaller, oval mark on the apex, a curved one below 

 the hind wings, a large, longish oval mark on the centre of 

 the metapleurse, the mesosteruum and the apices of the abdo- 

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