184 On neio Ilymenoptera from the Khasia Ilills. 



sides and middle with rufous. Scutellnm romidly convex, 

 large, its sides bordered by stout projecting keels, strongly 

 punctured and covered with long black hair. The depressed 

 base of the median segment is smooth and shining and is 

 bordered at the top in the centre by a curved keel ; the de- 

 pression is wide, deep, and smooth. Postscutellum smootli, 

 shining, and finely striated in the middle at the base; the 

 depression l^ordered laterally by stout keels. Areola longer 

 than broad, rounded at the base, transverse at the apex ; its 

 centre bears some stout irregular striae. The posterior 

 median area closely, transversely, rugosely punctured, the 

 base with three or four short, stout, longitudinal keels; the 

 sides stoutly transversely striated ; tlie lateral teeth very 

 large, broad^ curved, and rounded at the apex. Legs fulvous ; 

 the coxae and trochanters more or less yellow ; the tarsi 

 stoutly spined. Wings hyaline, with a distinct fulvous tinge ; 

 the stigma fulvous, the nervures darker. Petiole smooth 

 and shining, except on the depressed sides of the apex, which 

 are punctured, the second segment strongly, the others 

 weakly punctured ; the gastrocoeli shallow, narrow, longish, 

 strongly longitudinally striated. The apex of the petiole, 

 the base and apex of the second and third segments narrowly, 

 and the base of the apical segments more broadly, black ; the 

 sheaths of the ovipositor fulvous, black. The four anterior 

 coxse are, for the greater part, pale yellow ; the posterior 

 have the basal two thirds yellow above. Calcaria black. 

 Gastrocoeli stoutly irregularly striated. 



Erythrojoppa ^ lineata, sp, n. 



Ferrugineous ; the ocellar region^ two broad lines on the 

 centre of the front, the antennae from the fourteenth joint, 

 a broad baud shortly below the middle of the prothorax, 

 the base and sides of the mesonotum and two lines in the 

 centre on the apical half, the space at the sides of the 

 scutellum, the base of the median segment narrowly, the 

 posterior median area, the base, top, and apex of the meso- 

 pleurae, and the base and lower side of the metapleurae and 

 the apex of the nietanotum narrowly, black. Legs coloured 

 like the body, the hinder tarsi black. Wings fuscous viola- 

 ceous, highly iridescent, the nervures and stigma black. ^ . 



Length 2u mm. 



Hab. Khasia Hills. Coll. Rothney. 



The face and pleurae have a faint, but distinct, yellowish 

 tinge. The iace and base of clypeus are sparsely punctured ; 



* Eri/f]trojoppa, (."am. Ann. & Mag. Nat, Hist. sev. 7, vol. ix. p. 14l3. 



