96 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



hyaline, the stigma testaceous, the uervures darker coloured. ? . 

 Length, 11 mm. 



Hab. Hac. Antisana, 13,300 ft. 



Head black ; the inner orbits and the sides and apex of the clypeus 

 yellow ; the mandibles for the greater part rufous. Face strongly 

 punctured, closely in the centre, more sparsely on the sides ; the 

 clypeus has a row of punctures on the upper and lower edges. Front 

 and vertex closely and coarsely, the outer orbits more widely and not 

 so strongly punctured. Mandibles dark rufous, their apex black. 

 Palpi dark testaceous. Pro- and meso-thorax closely and distinctly 

 punctured ; the sternum smooth and more shining. The edges of the 

 propleurffi behind are irregularly striated ; and there are some stout 

 strisB below the hinder edge of the tubercles. The metapleurse are, 

 if anything, more strongly punctured than the meso-. Scutellum 

 punctured closely, but not strongly, round the sides ; the central part 

 is only sparsely punctured. Post-scutellum coarsely aciculated and 

 closely punctured ; the basal fovete are large, round and deep. Meta- 

 notum coarsely, closely rugosely punctured ; the apical slope is closely 

 rugose ; the lateral apical keel in the middle projects into a broad, 

 not very prominent, tooth. Legs covered with a pale down; the tibial 

 and tarsal spines are rufous. The petiole is dark rufous (perhaps it is 

 discoloured), the post-petiole is closely punctured ; the second segment 

 is ferruginous ; the gastrocoeli shallow, impunctate. 



Vabsaris, gen. nov. 



$ . Antennae not longer than the abdomen, stout, distinctly taper- 

 ing towards the apex ; the joints not serrate. Head with the temples 

 broad, rounded, not obliquely narrowed. Face flat ; the apex of the 

 clypeus broadly rounded. Scutellum roundly convex, not much raised 

 above the level of the mesonotum ; its sides not keeled. Median 

 segment not spined ; its spiracles small, about three times longer than 

 wide, straight, rounded at the base and apex ; the areola distinctly 

 wider than long. Wing areolet 5-angled ; the disco-cubital nervure 

 without a stump of a nervure. Abdomen bluntly pointed at the apex; 

 the ventral keel is on segments 2, 3, and 4. Legs short and stout ; 

 the tarsi thickly spinose. 



There is a narrow keel before the middle of the propleur^e ; the 

 face slightly projects in the middle ; the areola is widely separated 

 from the base of the segment, which is widely, deeply depressed, and 

 has its sides bordered by a keel. 



In Ashmead's arrangement (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. xxiii. p. 18) 

 this genus would come in near Amhlyteles. I only know the 

 male ; but that should be readily known by the short thick 

 antennas, by the broad temples, rounded, not obliquely narrowed, 

 behind, by the median segment not being spined, and by the 

 short metathoracic spiracles, which are not only shorter, but 

 broader than they are in Amhlyteles or Pseiidamblyteles. 



Vabsaris forticornis, sp. nov. 

 Black ; the legs, the second abdominal segment, the apical two- 

 thirds of the third, and two marks on the centre of the fourth, ferru- 



