EUGALTA. 71 



circular. Abdomen smooth, with the segments not much broader 

 than long ; basal longer than second segment, gradually dilated 

 towards its apex; gastrocoeli of the second segment distinct: 

 terebra elongate, longer than halt' the body, emitted from a ventral 

 fold. Legs long and slender, with the coxae large and elongate ; 

 hind tarsi nearly as long as their tibiae, large, elongate, with their 

 claws curved and more slender than the shorter and stout central 

 lobe. Wings with no areolet. 



Ranfje. Assam, Sikkim. 



This genus originally included species both with and without 

 an areolet, but Ashmead in 1900 erected a new genus, Pseud- 

 eugalta, for the reception of the former group, and although it is 

 characterised by no other distinctions, it appears of sufficient 

 importance to be accorded generic rank. Cameron says of his 

 genus (sensu lato) that it " is nearly allied to llhyssa [which has an 

 areolet] and Epirhyssa [which has not], which differ from it in 

 the transversely striated mesonotum, in the shorter metathorax, 

 in the mandibles being bidentate, in the shorter petiole, which has 

 the spiracles placed much nearer the base, and in the longer 

 hinder tarei, which are distinctly longer than the tibiae." It is 

 very closely allied to, and has much the facies of, the well-known 

 European genus Poemenia, Holmg., from which it mainly differs 

 in its unidentate mandibles (cf. Zeits. Hym. Dipt. 1908, p. 174) 

 and very curiously dentate tarsal claws, all of which are distinctly- 

 bidentate, apically and centrally, except the external hind one, 

 where the central tooth is wanting and the apical more acutely 

 angled. 



Table of Species. 



1 (2) Thorax mainly red; metanotum ex- 



cavate strigosa, Cam., p. 71. 



2 (1) Thorax without red markings ; ineta- 



notum not excavate. 



3 (4) Third aud fourth segments black albitarsis, Cam., p. 72. 



4 (3) Third and fourth segments with pale 



bands. 



5 (G) Scutellum black ; fifth abdominal 



segment normal linearis, sp. n., p. 73. 



G (o) Scutellum flavous ; fifth segment api- 

 cally emarginate vittata, sp. n., p 74, 



34. Eugalta strigosa, Cam. 



Eugalta strigosa, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 136 (5). 



A beautiful black species, with the thorax red, the face and 

 flagellar band and the legs mostly white. Head black, with the 

 face and clypeus white, stronglv punctate and sparsely clothed 

 with elongate infuscate pilosity. the latter broadly impressed 

 centrally and the palpi white ; frons glabrous and subconcave ; 

 orbits acutely margined internally ; vertex strongly punctate 

 laterally above ; occiput acutely margined above, centrally elevated 



