EXERISTES. 199 



thorax smouth and shining ; a narrow pronotal line, callosities at 

 radices and an irregular central mark at base of the mesopleurae, 

 pale navous; metathorax with long pale hairs, closely and strongly 

 punctate, except at the centre and apex of metanotum. Sciitellum 

 and postscutelluin, except a longitudinal line on basal halt' of the 

 former, pale flavous. Abdomen rut'o-testaceous, with the six basal 

 segments closely and strongly punctate ; a broad line posteriorly 

 dilated centrally at the apex of the first segment, a broader line 

 extending nearly to the centre and subdilated centrally and 

 laterally on the second, narrower lines on the third and fourth 

 segments, and the two apical segments entirely, black ; terebra not 

 quite as long as abdomen (6 millim.). Leys : anterior pairs pale 

 navous with the femora testaceous behind ; hind legs ruto-fulvous 

 throughout. Wings hyaline, with the stigma and nervures black ; 

 tegulse pale navous; areolet^ oblique and sessile, emitting the 

 recurrent nervure from its apex. 



Length 11 millim. 



SIKKIM (Bine/ham). 



Unknown to me. 



136. Exeristes leucostoma, Cam. 



Charitopimpla leucostoma, Cameron, Tijds. Ent. 1907, p. 97 (). 



2 . A black species, with stramineous markings. Head smooth, 

 with fulvous pubescence ; face, except a line on its apical two- 

 thirds, clypeus, except a large apical piceous mark, mandibles, 

 except at apex, and the palpi, stramineous. Antennae with the 

 two basal joints Havous beneath and the nagellum with dense 

 stiff pale pubescence. Thorax smooth, with fulvous pubescence ; 

 a line on the apical half of the pronotum and the radical callosities 

 stramineous ; metathorax sparsely punctate, except at the centre 

 and apex of the metanotum. Sciitellum and postscutellum 

 stramineous. Abdomen strongly arid closely punctate with the 

 anus smooth; central segments laterally flavescent ; the four 

 basal segments rufo-testaceous with the apices of the second to 

 fourth narrowly black ; remaining segments black, with the apex 

 of the sixth, most of the seventh and two transverse spots on the 

 fourth, pale navous ; terebra as long as the abdomen (5 millim.). 

 Anterior legs pale navous, with the femora somewhat darker. 

 Wings hyaline, with the nervures and stigma black ; tegulae 

 stramineous ; areolet shortly but distinctly petiolate. 



Length 9 millim. 



SIKKIM (Bingham, type) ; CEYLON : Kandy, vii. 09 and ii. 10 

 (E. E. Green, 0. S. Wickwar). 



In the three Ceylon specimens the head and thorax are very 

 strongly nitidulous and very sparsely, though distinctly, punctate 

 and pilose, with the notauli fine ; the scrobes are large and extend 

 nearly to the ocelli ; the face is exactly quadrate and, like the very 

 strongly discrete clypeus, entirely pale stramineous : the cheeks 



