S2 Mr. P. Cameron on Ilijincnopfcra 



below, tubercles, a large mark on the lower bait' of the moso- 

 ])leurai (rounded below and extending on to the sternum, 

 rounded and narrowed above at the apex), an oval spot below 

 the hind wings, a large mark in the middle of the metapleurae 

 (transverse at the base, the three other sides broadly rounded), 

 the postj)etiole, almost the apical half of the second segment, 

 two broad marks (obliquely narrowed towards the base) on 

 the aj)ical half of the third, two smaller oblique triangular 

 marks on the sides of tbe fourth, a narrow line on the apex of 

 the fifth and sixth, and the seventh from shortly behind the 

 middle, bright orange-yellow, as are also the legs (except the 

 fore femora behind, the middle at the base all round and at 

 the aj)ex, slightly more broadly above, tlie middle yellow part 

 being about as long as the black apical) ; the basal and apical 

 third of the posterior all round, the base narrowly of the four 

 hind tibiai (their apices more broadly), the four anterior tarsi 

 above, and the hind coxae and trochanters, black. The 

 underside of the antennal scape yellow, the sixth to fourteenth 

 joints of the flagellum white. Wings hyaline, the nervures 

 and stigma black. ^ . 



Length 14 mm. 



Ilunjit Valley, Sikkim, 1000 feet ; April {C. T. Bingham). 



Head closely punctured, the apex of clypeus and a large 

 round depression over each antenna smooth, shining. Thorax 

 closely punctured, the depression in the centre of propleurre 

 obliquely irregularly striated ; the apex of the mesopleurae 

 finely, closely, obliquely striated below. Median segment 

 closely rugosely punctured, the apex of the posterior median 

 area transversely striated ; the lateral apical arese more 

 strongly, irregularly, and much less closely striated ; the 

 apex of the pleuvse irregularly, stoutly, obliquely reticulated. 

 Postpetiole smooth, the second and third segments closely 

 ]ninctured. Gastrocoeli longer than wide, somewhat pyvi- 

 form, smooth on the inner side at the base, the outer side 

 coarsely aciculated. Tarsi closely spinose. Tiie areolet 

 5-angled, large, the recurrent nervure received shortly beyond 

 the middle. 



For a synopsis of the Indian species of ITa.liphera see ' The 

 Entomologist,'' 1904, p. H07. Inter alia, the present species 

 may be known by the broad continuous band on the second 

 abdominal segment. 



DiPLOPTERA. 

 Odynerus Ileioiilii, sp. n. 

 Black ; the mandibles (except at extreme apex), clypeus, 



