4 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Front in the centre behind the ocelli raised, clearly separated by 

 curved furrows, and bearing a few large scattered punctures ; outside 

 the furrows is a smooth space, the rest stoutly, deeply, but not very 

 closely punctured. The front is depressed laterally, and deeply irregu- 

 larly punctured ; there is no frontal area ; the lower part is raised, 

 and is closely, distinctly, but not coarsely punctured. Clypeus and 

 labrum sparsely punctured ; the apex of the former roundly incised. 

 The third joint of the antenufe is nearly double the length of the 

 fourth. Mesonotum strongly, deeply punctured, except at the apex, 

 where the puncturation is much finer and closer ; in the centre the 

 punctures are larger, and interlace. Scutellum sparsely punctured, 

 weakly at the base, stronger towards the apex. Pleurfe strongly, 

 closely punctured ; the base of the propleurse smooth ; the metapleur?e 

 finely and closely punctured. Abdomen smooth. Temples rounded, 

 but not narrowed ; the occiput margined, not quite transverse. The 

 head in the female is slightly narrower than the thorax ; in the male 

 it is almost as wide as it. Except the last, the ventral segments are 

 all broadly banded with yellow. At the bottom, below the hind wings, 

 is a large horn-shaped pale yellow mark. 



This species has been taken at Sikkim by Col. Bingham. 



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BRACONID^. 

 Iphiaulox hhotanensis, sp. nov. 



Ferruginous ; smooth and shining, sparsely covered with fuscous 

 hair, which is longer on the metanotum and base of abdomen ; the 

 flagellum of antennse black, fuscous at the base ; wings yellowish 

 hyaline, the stigma and nervures luteous ; there is a broad blackish 

 cloud, extending obliquely from the costa at the base of stigma to the 

 recurrent nervure, it occupying the discoidal cellule, except a triangular 

 space at base ; there is a light fuscous cloud at the apex of both wings, 

 that on the anterior reaching to the second transverse cubital nervure, 

 and more broadly backwards behind. ? . Length, 14 mm, ; terebra, 

 10 mm. 



Abdomen slightly longer than the head and thorax united, not 

 dilated in the middle, as wide as the thorax. There is a distinct 

 longitudinal keel in the centre of the first abdominal segment on the 

 basal three-fourths, the keel stoutest in the middle ; there is a similar 

 keel, triangularly dilated at the base — the triangle longer than it is 

 wide at the base — down the middle of second segment, extending close 

 to the apex ; the suturiform articulation is wide and crenulated ; there 

 is a wide, deep, curved depression down the sides of the second seg- 

 ment, and a narrower, oblique, clearly defined one on the basal lateral 

 half of the third ; there is a smooth, distinct, transverse furrow on the 

 base of the fourth. Face distinctly but not closely punctured. Temples 

 wide, obliquely narrowed, not or hardly rounded ; the occiput not quite 

 transverse. Ocellar region distinctly raised. Wings longer than the 

 body ; the recurrent nervure is received in the apex of the first cubital 

 cellule, not interstitial ; the transverse median nervure is not quite 

 interstitial, being received shortly beyond the transverse basal. 



