ITymenoplera from Northern India. 281 



of the propleurse smooth ; the mesonotura rugosely punc- 

 tured, with two longitudinal furrows, and covered with dark 

 fuscous hair. Scutellum more coarsely rugosely punctured, 

 thickly covered with long pale hair, and not raised above the 

 level of the mesonotum. Median segment coarsely reticu- 

 lated ; the central area short and wide, its base not twice its 

 length, its apical half narrowed. Propleurse punctured,except 

 at the apex ; the mesopleurse punctured, except at the base and 

 apex ; the metapleurse with one row of large reticulations 

 on the apex, the lower middle part with some large round 

 punctures. The basal two abdominal segments are dark red ; 

 the apex of the second black and covered with black hair; the 

 ventral keel is almost straight and the apex is oblique and 

 forms an incision with the obliquely rounded base of the second 

 segment. The second segment is obliquely depressed from 

 the middle on the basal and apical slopes ; the white pubes- 

 cent bands on the third, fourth, and fifth segments are 

 broad ; the pubescence on the apical segment is black. 



This species is not unlike pimdara, Cam. ; that is a more 

 slenderly built species and is smaller. 



F o s s o R E s. 

 TrPHiA. 



i. Median sef/ineiif with three keels. 



A. The first transverse median nervure placed distinctly behind the 

 basal, which is curved and thickened before the cubital nervure ; a 

 stout keel, broad and square at the base, extends ou to the middle of 

 the ventral surftioe of the petiole. 



Tiphia clav'merva, sp. n. 



Nigra ; abdominis apice dense fulvo-piloso ; alis fere I'ulvo-hyalinis, 



nervis fuscis, stigmate nigro. cT . 

 Long. 1) mm. 



Scape of antennfe sparsely covered with long fuscous hair; 

 aciculated, sparsely punctured, shining ; the flagellum opaque, 

 thickly covered with pale down. Front and vertex shining, 

 strongly punctured, more sparsely laterally below the ocelli. 

 Face and clypeus closely punctured, thickly covered with 

 fuscous pubescence ; the apex of the clypeus has a rounded 

 incision. Mandibles shining, rufous before the middle, the 

 base sparsely covered with pale and golden hair ; palpi rufo- 

 testaceous. Pronotum sparsely punctured on the basal half, 

 shining; the base thickly covered with long pale fuscous 



