Notes on the Family MasariJje. 747 



vertex, margins and carinations to pro- and mesonota, 

 lateral margins of abdomen above, body beneath, and legs 

 ochraceous; tegmina semi-opaque, greyish wliite, margins 

 very narrowly, and the stigma ochraceous, an oblique basal 

 fascia, a transverse spot in costal area, an irregular spot in 

 clavus, a broad transverse fascia before middle, irregular 

 siibapical suffusions, a central transverse spot near apex and 

 the apical margin fuscous, the broad transverse fascia con- 

 tains two small pale spots, and the apices of the apical veins 

 are distinctly ochraceous; wings pale subhyaline with the 

 venation fuscous; tegmina with the costal margin near base 

 slightly sinuate ; face elongate, much narrowed between the 

 eyes. 



Long., excl. tegm., 5 mm.; exp. tegra. 17 mm. 



IJab. Ceylon ; Pattipola {Green, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to the previous species, B. variolosa, by the less 

 sinuate costal margin near base. 



[It may be well to state that I have transferred my entire 

 entomological collections to the British Museum, and that 

 the whole of my types — excluding those located elsewhere — 

 are now contained in that institution.] 



LXXXYI. — Notts on the Family Masaridte {Hymenoptera) ^ 

 icith Descriptions of a new Ge7ius and Three new Species. 

 By Geoffrey Meade- Waldo, M.A. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



The recent acquisition of three new species of these rare 

 wasps is a matter for congratulation. Of the twenty-one 

 species hitherto described in this genus the British Museum 

 possesses nineteen, in each instance the type specimens. The 

 remaining two species are in the Paris Museum. 



The rarity of these insects is shown by the fact that such 

 diligent collectors as Mr. R. E. Turner and his brother, the 

 late Gilbert Turner, could only collect one specimen during a 

 twenty years' residence in North Queensland, while Dr. 

 Perkins, to whom tiie Museum is indebted for the species 

 described below, has only received three specimens from 

 Mr. F. P. Dodd at long intervals. 



The three specimens received from Dr. Perkins are refer- 

 able to three different species. 



