232 On new Ilymenoptera from Northern India. 



aciculated, shagreened tOM'ards the apex ; the lateral areaj 

 with some rough transverse keels^ the spiracular closely 

 punctured^ the apex raised on the inner side, transversely 

 striated ; the outer two basal arese are closely but not 

 strongly punctured, the outer apical have three stout, curved, 

 transverse keels on the apex. The apex of the median seg- 

 ment is thickly covered with long soft white hair. Propleurse 

 coarsely punctured more finely at the base, the middle below 

 obscurely striated. Mesopleurse coarsely punctured, below 

 the tubercles obliquely striated ; metapleurae punctured like 

 the mesopleurse. First segment of abdomen smooth, the 

 depressed sides of the apex punctured ; the second and third 

 segments closely punctured, the base of the second striated 

 laterally; gastrocoeli not depressed, rufous at the apex. The 

 apical segments of the abdomen are thickly covered with soft 

 white hair. 



Algathia cm-iniscvtis, sp. n. 



Black ; the scape of anteunse and joints 8-12 underneath, 

 the face and clypeus (except for a line in the centre of the 

 former, which gets gradually thicker until it reaches the 

 clypeal fovese, the clypeus being also black in the centre), and 

 the labrum white; the inner orbits broadly to the end of the 

 eyes, the outer more narrowly on the lower half, maxillary 

 palpi, lower part of propleurse, the edge of pronotum 

 (except at the base), tegulye, tubercles, scutellums, the apical 

 half of median segment, a large oblique mark on the meso- 

 pleurse above the coxae, a smaller one behind the posterior 

 coxse, one under the hind wings, the apices of the first and 

 second abdominal segments, a mark on either side of the 

 third, and the apical two segments, yellow. Legs rufous, 

 the four front coxte and trochanters bright lemon-yellow, 

 the apices of the tarsi fuscous ; the hinder cox<ie black, 

 broadly yellow above and at the sides above on the inner 

 side, their middle behind next to the black part rufous ; the 

 trochanters black, the basal joint for the greater part yellow 

 above ; the apex of the hind femora and the base of the tibiai 

 more narrowly black ; the hinder tarsi paler, not so rufous 

 in tint as the anterior, their apex black. Wings clear 

 hyaline, the stigma and nervures black. ? . 



Length 8 mm. 



Hub. Khasia Hills. Coll. Rothncy. 



Face and clypeus closely punctured, covered with short 

 white down; the front and vertex almost impunctate. 

 jSIesonotum closely and vmiforraly punctured ; scutellum 

 smoulh, covered with fuscous pubescence, its sides stoutly 



