Indian Aculeate Hymenoptera. 521 



furrow, the apex of tlie segment rounded ; petiole short, 

 about half the lengtli of thorax, remainder of abdomen about 

 the length of the head and thorax united. Jet-black, sparsely 

 covered with silvery pubescence, which hides the sculpturing 

 of the clypeus and front ; wings hyaline, nervures and tegulai 

 black ; second cubital cell much narrowed above, sub- 

 triangular. 



c?. Similar, the antennae filiform, and about twice as long 

 as in the female ; no tubercle between bases of antennae ; 

 sides of median segment finely obliquely striate ; tarsi pale 

 testaceous. 



Long. 7-8 millim. 



Hah. Kashmir, 5000-8000 feet ; three specimens. 



Gorytes lem's, sp. n. 



Smooth and shining, a few shallow punctures about the 

 region of the ocelli and on the mesonotum ; eyes strongly 

 convergent below ; antennse clavate ; clypeus much longer 

 than broad, transverse anteriorly, an impressed line from the 

 base of antennte to the anterior ocellus, the region of the 

 ocelli somewhat raised ; pronotum very short ; mesonotum 

 with two parallel median longitudinally impressed lines ; 

 median segment somewhat steeply sloped, the triangular 

 space at its base smooth and shining ; abdomen petiolate, 

 petiole about one third of the total length of the abdomen, 

 not increasing in width at apex, the base of the second segment 

 slightly narrower than tiie petiole. Black : the clypeus and 

 front as far as the base of the antennae, the scape, except its 

 extreme base^ a line on the pronotum posteriorly, a spot near 

 the tegulte, the postscutellum, an apical line, emarginate in 

 the centre, on first abdominal segment, a line on the apex of 

 second abdominal segment, widening laterally, and emar- 

 ginate, sometimes interrupted, in the centre, and the apical 

 margin of the fourth segment narrowly pale yellow ; antennas 

 reddish below; legs red ; the anterior and intermediate tibiae 

 at base, a line on all the tibiae above, and the tarsi yellow ; 

 clypeus with silvery pile ; median segment, except the tri- 

 angular space at base, and abdomen pruinose ; apical 

 abdominal segments with short stiff greyish pubescence ; 

 wings clear hyaline, nervures black, tegulas red with a yellow 

 spot. 



Long. 12 millim. 



JIab. Deesa ; not common. 



Next to G. alipes, from wiilch it may be distinguished by 



