New gênera and specîes of hyinenoptera from India, 1 1 



opposite the front and oue in tlie niiddle beliind. The face 

 atid Vertex are rather strongly puuctured: the pnnctnres ou 

 the clypeus are larojer, deeper and more widely separated and 

 thickly covered with white pubescence; the face is rouudly 

 couvex above ; the clypeal foveae larp^e ; the sides of the cly- 

 peus are pale testaceous. Maudibles black, shining ; the base 

 closely. the centre more sparsely, punctured : the labial palpi 

 blackish; the maxillary dark testaceous; both are thickly 

 covered with white hair. Front and vertex strono;ly and clo- 

 sely punctured ; the former with some transverse striations ; 

 the face covered with white, the vertex with black, hair. 

 Thorax black, except for an interrupted white line on the 

 ed^e of the pronotura and a mark on the middle of the scu- 

 tellar keels ; the mesonotnm and scutellum shininj; ; covered 

 witb large, rather widely se[)arated, punctures ; tbose on the 

 scutellum being more widely apart. Scutellum flat, narrowed 

 towards the apex; tbe post-scutellum closely punctured, except 

 on the apex. The base of the median serjment is finely aiul 

 closely transversely striated ; the areola is slightly lon^jer than 

 broad ; its base sli<]fhtly rounded, almost trausverse ; the apex 

 is rounded inwardly : iuside it is rough, irrejïularly obliquely 

 striated ; the posterior median area is closely ruprosely reti- 

 culated ; its top and sides stoutly striated ; the striations be- 

 cominj^ larguer below ; the oufcer areae are coarsely ruj^ose 

 and coarsely transversely striated below ; the spiracular area 

 transversely ru<^osely punctured, behind more closely and not 

 so stronnjly. Propleurae shiniujï, closely behind, in the middle, 

 stoutly and sharply, striated ; the mesojileurae shininj?, closely, 

 but not stroufrly, punctured ; the metapleurae coarsely, ru<jfo- 

 sely punctured, the punctures running into striations behind. 

 Mesosternum puuctured like the i:)leurae ; the central furrow 

 deep, not much widened behind and bearing stout trausverse 

 keels throughout. Legs black ; the hiuder femora ferruginous, 

 except at the apex ; the anterior tibiae and tarsi dirty testa- 

 ceous. Wings fuscous-violaceous : the stigma and nervures 

 black ; the areolet narrowed at the top, being there scarcely 

 tbe length of the space bouuded by the récurrent and the 

 second trausverse cubital nervures ; the récurrent nervure is 

 received beyoud the middle, almost at the base of the apical 

 third of the cellule. Pétiole smooth ; the apex in the middle 

 strongly longitudinally striated ; the second segment is closely 

 punctured, the middle, at the base, stoutly and sharply striated ; 

 the gastrocoeli smooth, impunctate; on the innerside, at the 

 base, are 7 stout keels ; the 3 "l segment is less strongly and 

 closely puuctured and at the base, in the middle, bears some 

 short, longitudinal striations ; the apex of the 4 tli and the 

 eucceeding segments are cobalt-blue, 



