New gênera aud species of liynienoptera from India. 1 { 



covered with depi'essed silvery pubescence. Mesothorax closely 

 rugosely punctured; the puuctares are rouud aud clearly 

 separated and are closely aud more rugose ou the pleurae. 

 Scutellum closely rugosely puuctured. lu tlie centre of the 

 median segment, at the base, is a clearly defined shiniug area, 

 about three times longer thau broad ; it reaches to the 

 middle of the basai portion of the segmeut aud is narrowest 

 at the base; its borderiug keels are stout; ou either side of 

 it are scout longitudinal keels ; the apical slope is coarsely 

 reticulateil. The lateral teeth are stout aud longish. l'he 

 basai segmeut of the abdomen is strougly, but uot closely, 

 puuctured; the punctuatiou ou the others are weaker aud 

 spurser; the apices of the segments are narrowly, but distinctly, 

 bauded with silvery pubescence; the last segmeut is trausverse 

 at the apex. 



This is the largest of the ludiau species and eau uot 

 readily be coufouuded with auy knowu species. 



2. Piagetia varicoruis sp. nov. 9- 



Black; the clypeus, the prothorax; the sides of the meso- 

 uotum at the tegulae, the pétiole, the greater part of the 

 legs, the scape and joints 4 — G of the anteunae, red; the 

 wiugs hyaline, clouded ou the radial and 2ud aud H^d cubital 

 cellules; the cly})eus depressed; its apex uot tootiied. — 

 Leugth 8 miu. 



Hab. Sikkiui. 



Autennae black ; the slope, 4tli, 5tli aud Gt'i joints aud 

 the 7<^li in part red. Vertex opaque, aluiost bare; the front 

 thickly covered with silvery i)ul)escence. Clypeus red, thickly 

 covered with silvery pubescence; it is keeled in the centre; 

 its apex is slightly waved iuwardly. Basai half of uiaudibles 

 pale red. Thorax black, deusely covered with silvery pubescence, 

 the prothorax eutirely and a triaugular mark ou the sides 

 of the mesouotum in front red; the pile ou its sides has a 

 golden hue, The basai part of the median segmeut is irre- 

 gularly wrinkled aud bas a fine keel dowu the centre; the 

 apical slope is thickly covered with silvery pubesc uice. There 

 is a curved longitudinal furrow ou the mesopleurae; the meta- 

 pleurae obscurely striated above. The anterior coxae are 

 pale red, black ou the lower half of the outersiile, the 4 

 posterior coxae are for the greater part black; their tro- 

 chanters are broadly black above; the hiuder tibiae are in- 

 fuscated ou the outerside; the spiues are few and slender; 

 the fémoral tooth is short and 'oblique. The basai half of 

 the radial cellule, the 2ii<^l aud 3>d cubital aud the discuidnl 

 aloug the upper half of the récurrent nervure are cloutled 

 with fuscous. The liinder femora are broadly black aboyé, 



