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punctures on tlie 2ncl segment are more scattered, especially at the 

 base ; the other segments are coarsely and closely punctured. 



Ampulex carinifrons, sp. nov. 



Length, 15 mm. 



Hah. Khasia Hills. Coll. Kothney. 



Agrees in coloration and closely, in some other respects, 

 with A. compressa, but may be known from it b}' the 

 parapsidal furrows being less clearly defined, by the raised 

 apex of the pronotum being smoother above and deeply 

 furrowed throughout, by the raised apex of the median 

 segment being roundly depressed in the middle, and by 

 the 2nd abdominal segment being much more strongly 

 punctured. 



Antennae black, the scape punctured, metallic green, the 3rd joint 

 not quite the length of the 4th. Head deeply punctured, the face 

 thickly covered with long white hair ; the front and vertex with 

 brassy tints ; the front in the middle with an enclosed area, its keels 

 enclosing the front ocellus, the basal half of the area being broader 

 than the apical ; the keels bounding the latter are curved inwardly ; 

 the vertex has a furrow in the centre. Pronotum stoutly transversely 

 striated ; the furrows behind the middle are more widely separated ; 

 the apex is distinctly raised, smooth and furrowed down the middle. 

 Mesonotum with large, deep punctures which are more widely 

 separated in the middle at the apex ; the sides near the apex are 

 deeply hollowed, the inner-side of the hollow being stoutly striated, 

 the outer smooth. Scutellum more closely punctured than the 

 mesonotum ; the post-scutellum aciculated ; its sides, except at the 

 apex, with large punctures. Median segment transversely striated, 

 the striae on the middle more widely separated ; the middle keel is 

 straight, and reaches close to the apex ; the lateral are curved and 

 reach shortly beyond the middle ; the inner outer keel originates 

 from the outermost near its base. Tubercles stout, rounded at the 

 top ; the keel bounding the apex is depressed in the middle. The 

 apex of the segment is irregularly reticulated all over and thickly 

 covered with long white hair. The upper part of the propleuraj is 

 strongly punctured, the lower smooth, faintly aciculated ; the 

 mesopleune coarsely punctured except at the apex, where it is 

 aciculated ; the upper half striated below, reticulated above. 

 Mesosternum coarsely punctured, the central furrow not widened at 

 the apex as in A. compressa. Wings fusco-violaceous, darker along 

 the nervures, of which there are three ; the cubital nervure is more 

 rounded upwards on the 2nd cubital cellule than in A. compressa, 



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