464 P. Cameron. 
similar; its abdominal petiole is longer and more slender. 
On the metanotum is a distinct petiolar area; the areola 
is large, narrowed to a sharp point at the base; its apex 
is transverse. 
The type of this genus is much more slenderly built 
than the typical species of the group; the abdominal 
petiole in particular being longer and more slender, not so 
dilated at the apex; the petiole, in fact, reminds one of 
the genus Osprynchotus, Spin. or Bafhycrisis Cam. The 
whole appearance of the insects is that of the Crypfini 
rather than of the Phygadeuonini. It may belong to the 
Hemitelini, but it has a closed areolet, although the 2nd 
transverse cubital nervure is fainter than the Ist. Onthe 
other hand the more slender body, legs and antennae are 
more as in the //emitelini than in the Phygadeuonini. 
2. Finchra gracilis sp. nov. O9. 
Black; the inner orbits somewhat broadly, a line on 
the base of the prothorax, broadest in the middle, a short 
line on the apex of the pronotum close to the tegulae, 
the greater part of the scutellum, the metanotal spines and 
the apex of the abdomen above, lemon yellow. Legs 
red; the coxae and trochanters, the apex of the hind tibiae, 
the basal and the apical two joints of the hind tarsi, black ; 
the 2 middle joints of the hind tarsi, white, as are also 
the 9th to 13th joints of the antennae. Wings hyaline, 
the nervures and stiema black. — Length 7 mm; terebra 
2 mm. 
Simla. September (C. G. Nurse). 
Face closely punctured, sparsely covered with white 
pubescence; the top of the clypeus is more sparsely 
punctured; its apex smooth, brownish. Mandibles and 
palpi black. Front and vertex closely punctured. Meso- 
notum opaque, very finely, and indistinctly punctured. 
Scutellum smooth and shining. Base of metanotum finely, 
closely punctured; the rest of it is more strongly and 
distinctly punctured, the punctures more or less mixed 
with striae, especially behind the spines and on the apical 
slope. Pleurae closely punctured, more or less finely 
reticulated-striated. Tarsi closely spinose, the apices of 
the joints with long spines. 
The o' has the face, clypeus, mandibles and malar 
space pale yellow; the antennal scape is yellow below 
and the white ring is narrower; the 4 anterior coxae and 
