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XIII, Descriptions of Ttvelve Nevj Genera and Sjjecies of 

 Ichneumonidse (Heresiarcbini and Amblypygi) and 

 three species of Ampulex from the Khasia Hills, 

 India. By Peter Cameron, communicated hy 

 George Alexander James Rothney, F.E.S. 



[Read May 6th, 1903.] 



Caspipina, gen. nov. 



Mandibles curved, sickle-shaped, unidentate. Apex of clypeus 

 transverse ; not separated from the face ; the foveje distinct. Occi- 

 put sharply margined. Scutellum flat ; its sides on the basal half 

 keeled. Median segment completely areolated ; the areola, if any- 

 thing, broader than long and open at the base. Areolet 5-angled ; 

 narrowed at the top, the transverse basal nervure interstitial. Legs 

 stout ; the tarsi spinose. Antennae compressed and somewhat 

 dilated beyond the middle. The apex of the median segment has 

 an oblique, straight, not rounded slo^ie. The inner orbits are sharply 

 margined. The recurrent nervure is roundly curved outwardly and 

 bears the stump of a nervure in the middle. 



Caspipina ferruginea, sp. nov. 



Ferruginous ; the edge of the pronotum, the lower edge of the 

 propleura?, the tubercles, the mesopleurs9 broadly in the middle at 

 the base and the centre of the metapleuraa, yellow ; the edges of the 

 mesonotum, the space at the sides of the scutellums, the apex of the 

 median segment — the black projecting upwards along the keels — a 

 band shortly below the middle of the propleura?, the base, top, 

 and apex of the mesopleur^e, and the base and lower-side of the 

 metapleurae, black. Legs ferruginous, the fore coxae yellowish ; the 

 tarsi thickly covered with short, stiff hair ; the incision on the base 

 of the fore tarsi wide and deep. The basal sixteen joints of the 

 antennae ferruginous, the rest black. Wings fusco-hyaline, the 

 nervures and stigma black. 9 . 



Length, 13 mm. 



Hah. Khasia Hills. Coll. Rothney. 



Head shining, the face and clypeus closely, but not strongly, 

 punctured and sparsely covered with short pale pubescence ; the 

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