304 icHNEUMONiD-*:. 



half of the recurrent, fenestrate ; nervellus anteturcal and 

 indistinctly intercepted far below its centre. 



Length 4 millim. 



BOMBAY : Deesa, x. 98 (Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



1 have seen only the typical female. 



218. Triclistns pallidifrons, sp. n. 



$ . A small black species with the eyes, face and base of 

 antenna) uuicolorous flavous. Head entirely testaceous below 

 the antennas, with the frontal 

 orbits anteriorly concolorous. 

 Antennce stout and flavescent, 

 becoming testaceous centrally and 

 infuscate apically. Thorax: meta- 

 thoracic costulae wanting and the 

 petiolar area somewhat short. 

 Legs: hind calcaria not longer 

 than half the metatarsus nor than 

 the apical breadth of the tibia. 

 Wings hyaline, with the radix and 

 teguhe flavous ; radius of upper 



IrUHmfXlfr**, Mori. ^"S? ei ? itted 1 from f nt f the 

 broad stigma ; lower basal nervure 



elongately postfurcal and areolet subpetiolate. 



Length 4 millira. 



CEYLON (Dr. Thwaites). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species is very closely allied to T. pallidipes, Holing. 

 (Ofv. 1873, p. 59), but the pale face and frontal orbits instantly 

 distinguish it. 



Genus MEGATREMA. 

 Megatrend, Cameron, Zeits. Hym.-Dip. 1907, p. 468. 



GENOTYPE, M. albopilosa, Cam. 



Clypeus not discrete ; cheeks distinct ; mandibles broad and 

 equally bidentate ; vertex not apically carinate ; temples short, 

 sharply and obliquely constricted ; ocelli in a curve, with the 

 basal ones twice as far from each other as from the eyes. Basal 

 flagellar joint longer than the second. Mesonotum and scutellum 

 deplanate ; metanotal areola stoutly carinate, its basal half parallel- 

 sided, its apex subcircular, enclosing two slender and convergent 

 carinae ; spiracles very large, oval and more than twice as long as 

 centrally broad ; lateral carinae extending to a deeply impressed 

 pyiiforin area ; "the sides of the metanotum at the middle are 

 roundly curved inwardly." Abdominal segments with no carina-: 

 the basal sessile, as long as basally broad, with its spiracles at the 

 base. Legs stout, with the apical joint of the front tarsi large and 



