198 ICHXEUMONJD.I;. 



134. Exeristes tibialis, sji. n. 



2 . A black species, with the ceutral segments badious, and 

 the legs, propleura3 and scape mainly ilavoas. Head nitidulous, 

 very finely and extremely sparsely punctate ; vertex convex and 

 not baccate behind the entire ej^es, which extend almost to the 

 base of tlie piceous and equally strongly bidentate mandibles ; 

 occiput absolutely bordered laterally, and strongly emarginate in 

 the centre; face nitidulous, obsoletely punctate, with dense lo'.ig 

 white pilosity ; clypeus strougly discrete and four times as broad 

 as long. Antenna' filiform throughout and black, with the scape 

 excised nearly to its base and broadly fiavous beneath. Thorax 

 distinctl}'-, evenly and not closely puuctare, with the pleurae and 

 sternum subglabrous ; propleurie triangularly above, and an 

 elongate callosity before tlie radix, stramineous ; notauli distinct, 

 though hardly reaching centre .: metathorax with no area, but 

 with long pilosity, lateral carinas entire, spiracles small and 

 cii'cular. Scutelhim normal and somewhat deeply punctate. 

 Abdomen double the length of the thorax, convex, subparallel- 

 sided, with the apices of the evenly and distinctly punctate seg- 

 menrs a little prominent ; basal segment not longer than apically 

 broad, bicarinate to the centre, with the emarginate apex centrally 

 elevated ; second segment quadrate and, with the slightly trans- 

 verse third, conspicuously badious befoi'e its apex ; fourth and 

 fifth distinctly tuberculate and subtransverse, with the following 

 smoother and much shorter; venter flavidous and plicate ; terebra 

 five-sixths the lengtli of the body with the spicukx ferruginous, 

 the valvulae black and very elongately pilose. Le(js fulvous with 

 the anterior coxas, and all the trochanters, stramineous ; hind 

 coxae and tibi;e stramineous above and blackish throughout 

 beneath ; calcaria })ale, slender and very short ; claws curved, 

 small and basally strongly lobate. Wings hyaline, with the radix 

 and teguke fiavous, stigma and costa blackisli ; areolet triangular, 

 broader than high, and emitting the distinctly bifenestrate second 

 recuj'rent nervure from its apical third ; first recurrent of bind 

 wing distinctly postf ureal, emitting nervellus from above its centre. 



Length 13 millim. 



SiKKiM, iv. 91 and iv. 1900 (Bingham). 



Tgpe in British Museum. 



I have seen a second female of this species of eleven millimetres 

 in length with the abdomen immaculate, the scape only apically 

 testaceous beneath, and the hind coxae not infuscate. 



135. Exeristes flavoscutis. Cam. 



C'/tarif(>pitn])la J/(ivoscii/ig, Cameron, Tijds. Ent. 1907, p. 97 ( $ ). 



A black species, with pale flavescent markings. Head smooth ; 

 face, exceptins,' a centi'al l)lack line attenuated above, and the base 

 of the mandibles, pale ilavous. Thorax with pro- and meso- 



