256 Mr. R. E. Turner on Fossorial Hymenoptera. 



Subfamily Lah^inm. 



Genus Pakapiagetia, Kohl. 



Parapiagetia xoichioari, sp. n. 



(S . Niger, albo-pilosus ; mandibulis basi, scapoapice, tegub's, tibiia 

 tarsisque testaceis ; abdomiiie segmeuto prirao toto, secundoque 

 lateribus ferrugineis; alls byalinis, venis uigris, stigmate costaque 

 testaceis. 



S ■ Clypeus produced into an acute spine in the middle of 

 the apical marg-in ; mandibles deeply incised on tiie outer 

 margin ; third joint of the flagellum longer than the second. 

 Head and thorax very minutely and closely punctured, more 

 or less covered with shining white pubescence ; eyes sliglitly 

 divergent towards the clypeus ; ocelli situated on a rounded 

 prominence, the posterior pair oval and near togetiier. 

 Median segment longer than broad, minutely punctured and 

 rather sparsely clothed with long white pubescence. Abdo- 

 men petiolate, the first segment about one-third longer than 

 the second, very narrow at tlie base, gradually widened to 

 the apex, where it is about half as wide as the apex of the 

 second segment ; apical segment very narrowly rounded at 

 the apex. Radial cell narrowly truncate at the apex; the 

 three abscissa^- o£ the radius almost equal in length. Hind 

 tibiae with five short spines on the outer margin. 

 Length 7 mm. 



Bah. Colombo, Ceylon ; March 1909 (0. S. Wwhioar). 

 A female specimen in the British Museum from Karachi 

 {E. Comber^ is probably of the same species. The cly])eus 

 is shallovvly emarginate in the middle of the apical margin, 

 the angles of the emargination produced into short teeth. 

 Tlie second joint of the flagellum is only very slightly shorter 

 than the third. The median segment has a few very delicate 

 and indistinct transverse striae at the base and more distinct 

 oblique stria? on the sides of the segment. The recurrent 

 nervures are distinctly nearer together on the cubitus, and 

 the femora are wholly testaceous, not only at the apex as in 

 the male. The basal joint of the fore tarsus has six spines 

 on the outer margin, each spine about one-quarter as long as 

 the joint, and there are two or three spines on the hind tibia 

 in excess of the number in the male. 



The clypeus is quite distinct from P. odontosloma, Kohl. 

 The genus does not seem to have been previously recorded 

 from the Indian region. Cameron states that his genus 

 Oduntolarra is near Parapiagetia, but a specimen of O.nigra^ 

 Cam., labelled by him " type,'' is undoubtedly a Lyroda, the 



