Hymenoptera from Northern India. 237 



pygidium is densely covered with bright golden stiff pubes- 

 cence ; the hypopygiura is sparsely punctured near the apex; 

 the sides at the apex are stoutly keeled. 



Comes near to T. Saundersi in Bingham's work, but is 

 abundantly distinct. 



Tachytes assamensis , sp. n, 



Xigra, palpis, femoribus dimidio apicali, tibiis tarsisque rufis ; alis 



fulvo-hyalinis, nervis stigmateque rulis. § . 

 Long. 17 mm. 



Antennae black; the scape beneath thickly covered with 

 long pale fulvous hair. The front, face, and clypeus 

 thickly covered with bright rufous pubescence and long 

 fulvous hair; the vertex alutaceous and covered with long 

 dark fulvous hair. Apex of clypeus bare, smooth. Man- 

 dibles with the basal half rufous above ; the base thickly 

 covered with golden pubescence. Palpi rufo-testaceous. 

 Thorax thickly covered with longish bright rufous pubes- 

 cence, the pubescence on the pleurae and breast sparser, 

 not hiding the colour of the skin ; the hair on the scutellum 

 and median segment is longer. Legs rufous ; the coxae, 

 trochauters_, and base of femora black. The apex of the 

 wings want the yellowish tint ; the radial cellule is infus- 

 cated ; the first cubital cellule is slightly shorter than the 

 second; the first transverse cubital nervure is roundly 

 curved; the first recurrent nervure is received near the 

 basal third, the second shortly beyond the middle. 

 Abdomen black, shining ; the basal segment covered with 

 long dark fulvous hair; the apical and basal segments are 

 sparsely covered with long black hair; the pygidiuno, thickly 

 covered with stift' rufous hair ; the hypopygium has the 

 sides and apex punctured ; the middle bare, smooth, and 

 shining. 



Tachytes fidvo-pilosa, sp. n. 



Nigra, dense aureo hirta ; alis tlavo-hyalinis, nervis stigmateque- 



flavis ; scapo autennarum dense aureo piloso. $ . 

 Long. 20 mm. 



Scape of antennae densely covered with golden pubes,. 

 cence; the flagellum opaque, covered closely with a micro- 

 scopic pile. Head densely covered with bright golden, 

 pubescence. Eyes converging above, where they are 

 separated by the length of the fourth antennal joint. 

 Clypeus (except at the base) closely punctured, the apex 



