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subrugosely punctured; discocubital cell without a 

 chitinous spot, at the most with feeble traces of one, as a 

 hyaline thickening. 



(Thorax, legs and abdomen dull reddish or ferruginous, 

 the thorax sometimes, and the abdominal segments 

 behind the two or three basal ones usually, suffused 

 with brown or infuscate; yellow colour of the inner 

 orbits only continued down into the sinus of the eyes, 

 not distinct below this ; labrum yellow, distinctly pale 

 compared with the rufescent clypeus ; propodeum in 

 the S with the carina usually represented only by a 

 median tubercle, sometimes distinct, as in the $; 

 sculpture in front of the tubercle or carina similar to 

 and continuing that behind it, the surface sometimes 

 nearly smooth at the extreme front.) 



E. ashmeadi, sp. nov. 



25. (18) Scutellum flatter above, usually very little convex trans- 



versely behind the anterior fossa, always dull and very 

 densely, shallowly punctured or rugose, the lateral carinae 

 more strongly raised ; propodeum in front of the trans- 

 verse carina (or the position occupied by this, when 

 present, should it be effaced) dull, densely sculptvired, 

 much as behind the carina, but less coarsely ; the carinae 

 of the scutellum, viewed from in front, usually much 

 less strongly convergent posteriorly than in most of the 

 preceding species. 



26. (27) Hyaline glabrous area of the discocubital cell abnormally 



narrow, its lower side somewhat straight, not well 

 rounded beneath like other species, without any chitinous 

 spot, but usually there is a hardly perceptible, faintly 

 yellow line just beneath the lower margin of the area. 

 (A dull reddish or ferruginous insect, at most with 

 the apical abdominal segments and parts of the thorax 

 more or less suffused with fuscous; the whole face 

 beneath the antennae yellowish-white or cream- 

 coloured, except for a median longitudinal area be- 

 neath the frontal tubercle, the foveae of the clypeal 

 sutures and a spot, sometimes obscure, at the middle 

 of the apical margin of the clypeus ; propodeum of $ 

 with a transverse carina, sometimes obscure and then 

 best seen, when viewed from behind, in the (^ usually 

 without a trace of the carina, very densely sculptured 

 before and behind the carina, the sculpture in front 

 rather finer. Eyes strongly rounded outwardly, the 



