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tant qu'on est malgre tout foicd de soufFrir. Jugez d'apr^5 cela 

 de ce que sont les nuits pass^es en plein air sur les bords du 

 Pasvik, j'dtais bien heureux de rencontrer en passant de 

 pauvres cabanes ^claiiees par la chemin^e seule ; j'entraia 

 ^ genoux dans ces reduits enfumes oh. j'avais au moins la 

 satisfaction de reposer tranquillement h> I'abri des insupport- 

 ables dipt^ies. Une exploration scientiliquo est assez 

 in^ritoire dans les pareilles conditions." 



[To be contiuued.] 



XX. — On some new Genera and Species of Parasitic and 

 Fossorial Hymenoptera from the Khasia Hills, Assam. 

 Ky P. Camekox. 



Ichneumonidae. 



J o p P I NM. 



Imeria, gen. nov. 



Head large, cubital, largely developed behind the eyes ; 

 the occiput roundly convex, its sides not distinctly mar- 

 gined. Eyes parallel ; tlie malar space large. Clypeus not 

 separated from the face, indistinctly foveate at the base. 

 Mandibles large; their apex with two large, equal, widely 

 separated, long, sharply pointed teeth. Scutellum longer 

 than broad ; its sides with large, narrow, leaf-like keels. 

 Median segment areolated at the base ; the sides of the 

 apex sharply keeled, the middle o£ the keel with a blunt 

 tooth ; the spiracles elongate, curved, broadest at the base. 

 Prosternum large, leaf-like below, with a distinct margin. 

 Legs : the fore tarsi twisted at the base. Al)domen not 

 much longer than the head and thorax united, with eight 

 segments ; the ventral fold on the second and third seg- 

 ments; the ovipositor largely projects. Areolet oblique, 

 almost triangular. Antennte dilated and compressed towards 

 the apex. 



Belongs to the .Toppini and resembles somewhat the Neo- 

 tropical genus (Edicephalus. It comes near Xenojoppa, 

 Cam., olim Margrettia, Cam., from which it may be known 

 by the hinder coxse not being toothed, by the keels on the 

 scutellum not being raised and leaf-like, by the face and 

 clypeus forming one piece, by the petiole not being per- 

 ceptibly thickened towards the apex, by its spiracles being 



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