210 ICIlNEUl^rONID.'E. 



The areoleb in iliis genus resembles that oC Lisxonota, rather than 

 that of Plmpla, but V liavo adopted the sliorter name. 



145. Glyptopimpla prima, sp. n. 



S. A Hnear, black and llavous species. Head posteriorly 

 narrow, with no frontal horn; black, with the clyi)eus and, except 

 at their apices, mandibles flavous. Antemw filiform, as long as 

 the body ; black, with the scape internally convex and flavous. 

 Thorax with distinct mesonotal notauli ; black, ^^•ith the pro- 

 sternum, sides of raesosteruinn, an elongate line before and a dot 

 helow the radices, and the apophysal area; narrowly, flavous ; 

 metanotum distinctly and not very closely punctate, centrally 

 bicarinate and emitting costulaj at its centre ; apophyses wanting 

 petiolar area very short, with its basal carina strongly elevated ; 

 spiracles small and circular. Scutellum deplanate and black, «ith 

 its sides and apex broadly, and the postscutellum, flavous. 

 Abdomen parallel-sided, dull and black, with the apices or apical 

 angles of the posterior segments indistinctly flavescent ; basal 

 segment discally bicarinate to near its apex, with the following 

 segments sulcately and triangularly impressed; venter flavous,. 

 Avith the three basal segments plicate. Legs slender and flavous, 

 with only dots at the apices of the hind trochanters and femora, 

 at apex and before base of their tibia;, and the whole hind tarsi, 

 infuscate ; claws finely pectinate. Wimis hyaline and not broad, 

 with the areolet entire and petiolate ; nervellus intercepted near 

 its bottom. 



Length 7 millim. 



SiKKiM : Kurseong, 5000 ft., viii. 08. 



T^ipe in Indian Museuin. 



I have only seen the type of this species, but the areolet is so 

 regular in its conformation and symmetrical in both wings that 

 it can hardly be an aberration. 



Genus GLYPTA, Gmv, 



Glypta, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur. iii, 1829, p. 3. 



Genotype, G, teres, Grav. 



Head distinctly transverse, more or less strongly contracted 

 behind the oval eyes ; frons sometimes with cornigerous excres- 

 cences, vertex narrow ; clypeus convex, apically rounded or sub- 

 truncate, sometimes densely pilose apically and nearly always 

 indistinctly discrete from the usually prominent epistoma ; genal 

 costa continuous. Antennae slender and filiform, about the length 

 of the body. Thorax stout and gibbulous ; notauli indistinct ; 

 Tuetathoracic area; complete, obsolete or wanting ; petiolar area 

 semicircular, usually entire, but with the basal carina sometimes 

 deficient ; apophyses obsolete, spiracles small and subcircular. 

 Scutellum convex and triangular, apically obtuse, and rarely pale- 



