70 Ic^^^EUMONID.E. 



'basaUy piceoiis ; frons impressed, with the ini)er orbits margined, 

 the outer acutely elevated and obliquely strij^ose above. Antenncp 

 black, with the scape beneath, and a 14-jointed central band, 

 stramineous. Thorax black, with the callosities and an apical 

 mesopleural line flavous ; mesouotinn strongly and closely punc- 

 tate, propleurse smooth and shining Mith the lo^er ])art flavous ; 

 mesopleuroe sliagreened, closely and finely punctate near the 

 radices ; mesosternum impuuctate ; metathorax evenly scabri- 

 <3ulous, with no indication of arese above, laterally more closely, 

 centrally coarsely sculptured. Scutellum strongl}'- and closely 

 punctate, with dense infuscate pilosity, white, with its base black ; 

 postscutelluni black and subglabrous. Abdomen black, with the 

 apices of all the segments narrowly, and base of the first broadly, 

 stramineous ; first segment smooth, with its centre obscurely 

 shagreened ; the two following closely and distinctly punctate, 

 with the remainder subglabrous ; gastrocceli obsolete, not deeply 

 impressed, and closely punctate ; basal ventral segment flavescent 

 at both extremities, with a stout and centralh^ rounded basal 

 tooth ; terebra slightly longer than the abdomen. Legs flavous ; 

 the anterior with lines on the coxae and whole of tarsi, except 

 basal joint of front pair, black ; hind legs black, with marks on 

 coxae and trochanters, the hind tarsi except the two apical joints, 

 the apical third and the base of the tibife, white : and their femora, 

 •except at apex, fulvous. Wings hyaline and iridescent, with the 

 costa and basal nervures black, the apical and the stigma infus- 

 cate ; areolet small, oblique and subsessile, emitting the recurrent 

 nervure from its apical third. 



Length 12-19 millim. 6 $ . 



Assam : Khasi Hills (SotJineg, type) ; Chaudkhira, Sylhet 

 (J. L. Sherrveli) ; SiKKiM {Binqham) ; Tenasseuim : Mergui 

 {W. Doherty—lnd.Mws.). 



Type in the Oxford Museum, also that of B. leptopus ; they are 

 unquestionably conspecific. 



This female " comes ]iearer to Eugalta nigricollis, but is smaller, 

 and has the mesonotum distinctly punctured ; the clypeus semi- 

 circularly depressed at the apex ; the petiole shorter ; the second 

 segment closely and rather strongly punctured ; the hinder tibiae 

 black, broadly yellow at the base and apex"' (Cameron, loc. cit.). 



Genus EUGALTA, Cam. 

 Eitgalta, Cameron, Mancli. Mem. 1899, p. 135. 

 GE:yoTYPE, E. strigosa, Cam. 



Eyes large and not apically convergent, upper orbits margined, 

 nearly reaching the base of the large and unidentate mandibles : 

 clypeus not discrete from the face ; temples neither flat nor 

 oblique ; ocelU large and prominent. Prothorax not produced 

 into a neck ; mesonotum centrally reticulate at the apex, with the 

 notauli deeply impressed ; metathorax elongate and gradually 

 i-ounded to its apex ; spiracles subcentral, small, oval or almost 



