68 On ncio I'ossoi'ud IJymenoptera. 



long pale hairs, its base with a row of punctures. Leg^ 

 black ; the four anterior trochanters rufous ; the calcaria pale ; 

 the hair is long and dense. Wings fuscous violaceous; tlie 

 stigma and r.ervures deep black ; the second and third 

 cubital cellules are equal in length at the top; below the 

 second cellule is nearly twice the lengtii of the third and 

 receives the recurrent nervure in the middle ; the second 

 recurrent is received in the basal third. Tlie petiole is 

 sparsely covered with large punctures and with long pale 

 hair ; its basal teeth are large ; the ventral keel is short, 

 ibick, and straight; the apical half of the segment is sliarply 

 oblique ; the second to fifth segments are tiiickly fringed on 

 the apex with long fulvous hair ; tiie apical with paler fulvous 

 hair; the pygidium is punctured throughout, the punctures 

 stronger towards the apex, which is transverse. Ventral 

 segments punctured, smooth at the base. The tegube bear 

 la)ge scattered putictures and have the edges behind rui'ou-!. 

 Allahabad. 



Thynnidae. 



Methoca violaceipenn/.i, sp. n. 



Nigra, dense albo-hirsuta ; alis violaceo-hyalinis, uervis sligmatequo, 



nigris. (S . 

 Long. 12 mm. 



Anteniije black ; the scape covered thickly vvnth long 

 fuscous hair; the flagellum densely with short stiff pubes- 

 cence. Head black, the labrum fuscous, smootii. Clyptuis 

 roundly incised at the apex, which is oblique and ends in the 

 middle above in a smooth tubercle-like ])rojection; it is 

 strongly aciculated. The front coarsely punctured ; on its 

 Lnver half in the middle is a wide furrow with oblique sides; 

 the vertex is less strongly punctured. The face, cheeks, and 

 outer orbits are thickly covered with long white, the front and 

 vertex more sparsely with fuscous, hair. Thorax black, 

 shining, thickly covered with white hair ; the pronotum 

 roundly, but not much, narrowed in front, distinctly but not 

 very strongly punctured, except at the apex ; the mesonotum 

 similarly punctured ; the sides near the base depressed and 

 closely transversely striated ; on the outer side of the depres- 

 sion is a longitudinal furrow which reaches to near the apex. 

 iScutellum punctured like the mesonotum, its base transverse, 

 obliquely depressed ; the upper part of the depression smooth 

 and separated from the lower, which is closely rugose. JMedian 

 segment closely rugosely punctured ; above the middle it is 



