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Head black ; the face, clypeiis, the inner orbits and the outer more 

 broadly, except above, lemon-yellow ; the palpi of a paler yellow ; 

 the face and clypeus, except at the sides, punctured and covered with 

 pale pubescence ; the front smooth and shining, depressed, except at 

 the tap, where there is, in the middle, a raised punctured band ; the 

 vertex is closely and distinctly punctured ; a furrow runs down from 

 the lower ocellus. Mandibles yellowish, black at the apex. Thorax 

 rufous ; the mesonotum and the sides of the median segment at the 

 base, black. Mesonotum and scutellum closely punctured ; the post- 

 scutellum irregularly punctured and striated. The basal arese of the 

 median segment are closely punctured ; the areola obliquely, stoutly 

 striated on the sides ; the posterior median punctured all over, the 

 punctures clearly separated, but not deep ; the outer areas irregularly 

 punctured on the upper half, on the lower transversely striated ; the 

 spines are large. Propleuraj smooth and yellowish in tint ; the meso- 

 metapleurpe and mesosternum closely and distinctly punctured ; the 

 mesosternal furrow striated. Abdomen of a slightly darker rufous 

 colour than the thorax ; a mark on the petiole— half on the petiole 

 and half on the base of the post-petiole — and the basal two-thirds of 

 the 2nd and 3rd segments, black ; the post-petiole and 2nd segment 

 closely and distinctly, the 3rd less distinctly punctured ; the sheath 

 of the ovipositor blackish. Legs coloured like the body ; the four 

 front coxse and trochanters pale yellow. 



Buathra, gen. nov. 



(J . Antennje long, stout, distinctly tapering towards the apex ; 

 the 1st joint of the flagellum distinctly longer than the 2nd. Eyes 

 prominent, parallel. Front and vertex deeply excavated. Clypeus 

 small, its apex rounded. Mandibles stout, wdth two stout, blunt, 

 subequal teeth. Parapsidal furrows, deep, distinct. Scutellum not 

 much raised, not keeled. IMedian segment rugosely punctured, 

 without area?, but with two transverse keels, bent backwards in the 

 middle ; at the sides these are united by a keel which ends in a 

 tooth, which is blunt, but distinct. Areolet almost square, hardly 

 narrowed in front ; the disco-cubital nervure has a stump of a 

 nervure ; the transverse basal nervure is interstitial. Petiole 

 slender, the spiracles at the base of the post-petiole, which is not 

 much dilated. Gastrocceli indistinct. Metathoracic spiracles large, 

 oblique, linear. Clypeus roundly projecting. 



I have only a ^ of this genus, and am not sure about 

 its exact systematic position. In the distinct parapsidal 

 furrows and in the squarish areolet it agrees with the 

 Cryptina, as it does also in the paucity of arese on the 



