Ilymenoptera from Northern India. 2S7 



top; the second is oblique and is received shortly beyond 

 the middle. Legs thickly covered with silvery hair ; the 

 tibial and tarsal spines rufous. Abdomen shining ; the 

 petiole with the punctures large ; the other segments have 

 them smaller and closer; the apical segments are thickly 

 covered with long pale hair; the pygidium has the basal 

 half black and strongly rugosely punctured ; the apical half 

 is for the greater part rufous ; in its centre is a longitudinal 

 keel ; on the sides are a few indistinct keels. The median 

 segment is strongly aciculated, opaque, and has in the middle 

 three keels ; the central reaches near to the apex, to which 

 it is joined by three minute ones ; the apex has an oblique 

 slope, is shagreened, opaque, and thickly covered with white 

 pubescence. The ventral segments are fringed with long 

 fulvous hair ; the hypopygium is closely and strongly punc- 

 tured (except in the middle) at the apex. The clypeus is 

 broadly rounded at the apex. 



Comes into Bingham's section B and b 2 and b'\ but is 

 different from anything included therein. It might come 

 into section " C. Wings golden yellow/'' but it is quite 

 distinct from T. auripennis, the representative of the section. 



Tiphia simlaensis, sp. n. 



Nigra, capite pronotoque flense punctatis ; metanoto opaco, dense 

 aciculato, medio bicarinato ; alis fusco-violaceis, nervis stigraateque 

 nigris. $ . 



Long. 12 mm. 



Hah. Simla. 



The scape of the antennas is covered with long white hair ; 

 the second and third joints are smooth, shining, sparsely 

 covered with white hair; the others are opaque and thickly 

 covered with a pale down. Front and vertex closely anil 

 strongly punctured, more sparsely near the ocelli ; they are 

 thickly covered with pale hair. The base of the clypeus is 

 closely and strongly punctured, the apex smooth and shining, 

 its middle roundly and distinctly incised. Mandibles smooth 

 and shining, their middle broadly rufous ; palpi fuscous. 

 The lower part of the pronotum at the base is smooth and 

 shining, the upper finely and closely punctured; the top is 

 strongly and closely punctured (except on the apex). 

 Mesonotum shining and marked with widely separated large 

 punctures. The scutellum is punctured round the edges and 

 more sparsely in the middle ; the postscutellum is similarly, 

 but more closely, punctured; at its sides is an opaque, coarse] v 

 aciculatcd depression. The basal region of the median 



