182 P. Caineron. 



11. Lachmetha gen. noy. 



Ç. Abdomen with 8 dorsal seo^ments. Antennae thîcke- 

 ned and dilated beyond the niiddle. Mandibles with a lonç» 

 apical and a ninch sborter triangulär lower tootb, wbicb is 

 bent inwardly and downwards. Apex of clypens transverse ; 

 the labrnm projecting. its apex ronnded and separated from 

 the sides. Scntellnm flat, its sides keeled at the base. Post- 

 soutellum widely and deeplv depressed laterally at the base. 

 Median segment with a gradually ronnded slope; it is com- 

 pletely areolated; its base is depressed iu the middle : tlie 

 areola is of an elougated horse-shoe-shape and is opeo behind; 

 its spiraoles are cnrved, linear. Areolet narrowed at the top, 

 5-angled; the transverse basai nervure is interstitial; there is 

 the stump of a nervure on the disco-cubital. Tarsi spinose. 

 The abdomen is short, not n\urh longer than the head and 

 thorax united; the penultimate segment is larixe, lono-er than 

 the 6^1i ; the last is small and is depressed above; the sides 

 of the segment Project at the apiees and are distinctiy sepa- 

 rated from the following. The ventral keel is ou the 2'ifl and 

 3id and less distiuctly ou the 4fli ; the ovipositor projects and 

 bas broad sheaths: the dorsal segments are almost smooth. 

 The antennae in the çf are louer and serrate ; the punetuation 

 on the abdomen is close and distinct. 



The dilated auteimae in Q, serrate in cf. the median 

 segment depressed at the base, and the unenclosed areola refer 

 this genus to the Jovnini. In Ashm^ad'ft arrangement it 

 would corne in uear Protichneumon (cf. Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. XXIII, 15). 



L. Spinitarsis Sp. nOV. çf Q Niqm, flavomac.Hlata : pJi'.iiris 

 a.pice.qiie me.tanotl. InU /f,nvo-?nacnIatis ; pedihiifi fuliHn, coxift 

 tnrsinque. flain.'<; coxia pn.<tf.f'ch<i t'i/'fn.i, ap>Cf. ftonorum npicfiqup, 

 tihiarum pnaticaru.m nùiris ; al/fi Jnjdinix stùpnata iiervi.sqne 

 nigris. — Long. 9 — 10 mm. 



Hab. Khasia Hills (Coll. Rothney). 



Q Antennae black ; the scape and joints lO^'i — 10 th clear 

 white beneath ; the joints beyond the middle flattened and di- 

 lated : the apical attennated. Head pale yellow: the vertex 

 and front broadly in the centre, the occiput and the outer- 

 side of the outer eye orbits, black; smooth and shining: the 

 face in the middle obscurely punctured and very sparselv co- 

 verpd with short, white pubescence. Mandibles pallid yellow ; 

 their teeth black. Thorax black. shining : the edge of the 

 pronotum. two lines in the middle of the mesonotum, the 

 scutellar keels, the sides of the scutellum — broadly behiud — 



