Fosson'al Ilymenoptcra from the Khasia Hills. 71) 



species its upper half has a straight oblique slope. Antennae 

 fulvous, paler towards the apex. Head bright riifo-fulvous, 

 covered thickly with a golden pile; the vertex bears a few 

 lougish black hairs. Clypeus broadly rounded at the apex : 

 the apical half bears some long dark fulvous hairs. Man- 

 dibles coloured like the head ; the apex broadly black. Ocelli 

 in a triangle ; the hinder separated from each other by a 

 sh'ghtly less distance than they are from the eyes. Thorax 

 thickly covered with a golden pile ; bare except for a few 

 longish hairs on the scutellums ; the base of the mesonotum 

 and of the median segment black. The median segment 

 short, with a somewhat steep rounded slope; it is irregu- 

 larly, somewhat widely, transversely striated, and is furrowed 

 down the middle, the furrow becoming wider towards the 

 apex. The base of the meso- and metapleurse more or less 

 blackish, as is also the sternum. Wings yellowish hyaline, 

 with a distinct fuscous- violaceous tinge ; the uervures ful- 

 vous,; the first and third transverse cubital uervures are 

 roundly curved, the second is oblique and roundly curved 

 outwardly on the lower half. Legs coloured like the body ; 

 the four hinder coxcw broadly black at the base behind ; the 

 single tooth on the claws is short and stout. Abdomen of a 

 darker red than the thorax,, shining, bare, except on the 

 apical segment, which is covered with long fuscous hair and 

 ■with a bright golden pile. 



Saliusjunctellus, sp. n. 



Niger, dense aureo-sericeus ; anteunis nigris, basi late rufa ; alis 



flavo-hyalinis, apiee fumato. cJ et 9 • 

 Long. 22 mm. 



The five basal joints of the autenna3 rufous, the others 

 black. Head above tlie clypeus black, densely covered with 

 golden pubescence and more sparsely with longish pale hair ; 

 the clypeus apparently fulvous and densely covered with 

 depressed fulvous pubescence; its apex slightly waved, tri- 

 lobate. Mandibles ferruginous, densely covered with depressed 

 fulvous pubescence; the apL\x black. Thorax black, densely 

 covered with dei)rcssed golden pubescence. Legs ferruginous, 

 the coxai and trochanters black ; the apices of the basal 

 tarsal joints and the apical two entirely black ; the claws 

 with one tooth at the base. Wings yellowish hyaline, the 

 nervures fulvous, the apex smoky from the end of thg radial 

 cellule; the first and second cubital cellules are equal in 

 length above ; the first recurrent uervure is received shortly 

 beyond the middle, the second at the apex of the basal third. 



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