PARASITIC HYMENOPTEKA FROM THE SIKKIM HIMALAYA. 80 



mark on the basal slope, yellow ; the 4 anterior legs yellow, 

 tinged with fulvous, the hind coxae black, the basal third 

 above, the basal fourth below, testaceous, the tibiae and tarsi black; 

 the basal half of the former and the metatarsus at the base, 

 black, the rest whitish yellow ; wings hyaline, the nervures 

 and stigma black, d". 



Length 15 m.m. 



Sikkim. 



Base of abdomen smooth, the rest coarsely reticulated, den- 

 sely covered with long white pubescence ; the areola wider 

 than long, of equal width ; the apical keel not so stout as 

 the lateral ; the spines pilose, prominent, 4 times longer than 

 thick. Upper half of propleurge sparsely punctured, the lower 

 stoutly longitudinally striated. Upper half of raesopleurse 

 except at the raised apex, obliquely, irregularly striated ; the 

 lower closely, finely reticulated ; the furrow wide, irregular, 

 vertically finely closely striated except at the apex ; the meta- 

 pleurae more closely, strongly reticulated. Abdominal segment 

 smooth, the 2"'^ and 3"^ closely, finely, distinctly punctured. 

 Areolet small, slightly wider than long, receiving the recurrent 

 nervure close to the apex. 



Buodias rufoornatus sp. nov. 



Black, the face, clypeus, mandibles, palpi, orbits narrowly 

 all round, a narrow line on the edge of the pronotum, a 

 broader one on the lower edge of the propleurœ, base of 

 pronotum broadly, the sides of scutellum, its apex more 

 broadly, the apical slope of the metanotum, the mark dilated 

 in the middle above and the metanotal spines, yellow ; the 

 lower half of the mesopleurse, mesosternum and the meta- 

 pleurœ except for a triangular black spot at the base above, 

 pale rufous ; the base of 1st abdominal segment to near the 

 middle, a mark on the apex, roundly narrowed at the base, a 



