202 ICllXEUMOiNIDyK. 



lil:icl<ish, the tet'tli subobtiise, the iip])er being a little the longer; 

 all tlie palpi Havidous, cheeks almost wanting. Antenna' sub- 

 tiliionn, hardly longer than half the body, blaek with tlie scape 

 while, and basal tlagellai' joints ruFescent beneath, j^Vforo.!- black, 

 shiiung and sojiiewhat .short ; iiiesonotiini obsoletely punctate 

 with no trace of notaidi, a line beneath the radix and an 

 ■elongate one before it stramineous ; nietathorax finely and not 

 closely punctate with griseous pubescence, lateral costte alone 

 traceable ; spiracles nearly circular and directed upwards. 

 Scii.tdlmn, postscutellum entirely, and frenum very narrowly, 

 brigiit flavous. Abdomen subparallel-sided, black, with the whole 

 of the first segment and the three following broadly in the centre 

 fulvous, anus white ; basal segment not longer than apically broad, 

 discally strongly punctate, centrall}' sulcate and elevated on either 

 side; the following segments (except at apex) evenly and some- 

 what strongl}^ punctate, the second with small, and the next two 

 with large, though not convex, lateral tubercles ; terebra black 

 and of the same length as the abdomen, with the valvuloe not 

 strongly ])ilose. ^(''/s fiavous, with all tarsal claws infuscate and 

 basally lobate ; hind legs, except trochanters and base of tibiae, 

 fulvous ; calcaria of equal length and one-third of metatarsus. 

 WiiKjs normal and hyaline ; radix and tegulce stramineous, costa 

 and stigma piceous ; areolet subsessile, broadly triangular and 

 emitting the recurrent nervure almost from its apex ; first re- 

 current of lower wings opposite and emitting the nervellus 

 distinctly below centre. 



Lenc/th 10 millim. 



tSiKKiM, iv.-vi. 1!)00 (Binr/Jiam, type) ; Assam (TF. F. Bcu/gJei/). 



Type in the British Museum. 



The Assam specimen, in the British Museum, has the second to 

 fourth abdominal segments but narrowly pale before their apices. 



140. Exeristes carinifrons, don. 



l'inH>lu carinifrons, Cameron,* Mauch. Mem. 1899, p. 172 ($). 



2 . A handsome black species, with the scutellum and most of 

 the legs flavous, and the abdomen white-bauded. Head black, 

 with the palpi stramineous ; face strongly punctate, with the 

 epistoma obtusely carinate and centrally glabrous, pilosity white 

 and silky; clypeus, except its strongly punctate base, smooth and 

 remarkably excavate ; frons broadly and somewhat deeply concave, 

 apically glabrous, obscurely shagreened above and stoutly carinate 

 longitudinally in the centre; inner orbits distinctl}' margined; 

 mandibles basally strongly punctate. Antenna' black, the scape 

 with long pale hairs ; Hagellum densely clothed with short, stiff, 

 black pubescence. Thorax black throughout ; mesonotum minutely 

 punctate, with dense short infuscate pubescence; metathorax 

 broadly elevated centrally, its centre strongly trans-strigose and 

 the sides more closely and finely striate, the base glabrous and 



