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ON SOME NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF HYMENO- 

 PTERA (ICHNEUMONID^, CHRYSIDID^, FOSSORES, 

 AND APID^). B, p. c,MEKON. 



(Concluded from vol. xxxv. p. 315.) 



ANTHOPHILA. 



CtELIOXYS CURVISPINA, Sp. nOV. 



Black ; the wings violaceous from the transverse basal nervure ; 

 the front, face, and clypens densely covered with reddish-fulvous 

 pubescence ; the scutellar teeth stout, roundly curved on the outer, 

 straight on the inner side, not reaching to the apex of the scutellum. 

 ? . Long. 13 mm. 



Hah. Borneo. 



Face coarsely rugosely punctured, the clypeus more closely and 

 not so strongly rugose ; the front is distinctly and sharply keeled. 

 The hair ou the cheeks is thicker and more rufous in tint than it is 

 on the face or clypeus; on the front it is long and pale, on the clypeus 

 short and Avhite, on the apex of the clypeus it is long, stiff and bright 

 red. Mandibles aciculated at the base ; the rest opaque, aciculated, 

 and marked with elongated punctures. Mesonotum rugosely punc- 

 tured, more closely in the middle at the apex ; the scutellum is coarsely 

 rugosely punctured ; the lateral teeth are clearly separated beyond 

 their base ; the apex of the scutellum is broadly rounded ; the post- 

 scutellum is smooth and shining in the middle ; the sides irregularly, 

 longitudinally striated. Median segment closely punctured, except in 

 the middle at the apex, and thickly covered on the top and sides with 

 long white hairs ; the area is aciculated and deeply furrowed in the 

 middle ; the furrow is wider and deeper below. Mesopleurae coarsely 

 rugosely punctured. Legs black, covered with a pale down ; the meta- 

 tarsus thickly covered with fulvous pubescence. The apical part of 

 the wings has brilliant purple tints ; the second transverse cubital 

 nervure has the lower two- thirds broadly rounded. The basal five 

 abdominal segments are closely punctured ; the basal two not quite 

 so closely as the apical ; the basal half of the last segment is coarsely 

 aciculated, and bears also some scattered punctures ; the apical is more 

 coarsely aciculated, is opaque, has a stouter keel in the middle, bordered 

 by a firmer one on either side ; these become united at the apex ; the 

 lower segment is curved, lanceolate, and projects beyond the upper. 

 The segments, above and below, are fringed with soft, white hair. 



Comes nearest to C.fidvifrons, Sm., from Celebes, the male 

 of which only is known. 



The genus Epeolus in India. — The genus Epeolus is not in- 

 cluded in the ' Hymenoptera of British India ' by Col. Bingham. 

 When, therefore, I came across a species of the genus from the 

 Bombay district, I naturally concluded that I had got an addition 

 to the Indian fauna. On looking up, however, the literature of 

 the subject, I find that the species — Epeolus fervidus, Smith, 

 Descr. of New Species of Hymen. 102 — had been already re- 

 corded from India — also from the Bombay district — by F. Smith, 

 whose description must have been overlooked by Col. Bingham. 



