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longer than wide. Gastrocceli deep. The ventral fold projects out- 

 wardly on the second to fourth segments, forming a broad margin 

 along the lower edge. Areolet 5-angled; the nervures wide apart 

 above. Fore tarsi with some spines. The abdomen is bluntly pointed 

 at the apex; its back is roundly convex; the temples broad, the 

 mandibles broad, bidentate — the middle area of the post-petiole is 

 clearly separated and for the most part smooth. 



Comes near to Platylahis, from which it may be known by the 

 flat scutellum, much larger and longer, compared with its width, 

 areola, and by the large, broader, and more distinctly separated 

 petiole. 



Harsaces nigripes, sp. nov. 



Black ; densely covered with white pubescence ; the second and 

 third abdominal segments red ; the inner eye orbits, sides of clypeus, 

 and two marks on the apex of the scutellum pale yellow ; the fore 

 tibiffi slightly testaceous ; the wings hyaline ; the nervures and stigma 

 black. ? . Length 7 mm. 



Hah. Himalaya. 



Antennae black, covered with a microscopic pile. Face and clypeus 

 closely, strongly, and uniformly punctured ; the front and vertex are, 

 if anything, more closely punctured. Apical half of mandibles rufo- 

 piceous. Maxillary palpi pale yellow. Thorax closely, uniformly, 

 and distinctly punctured ; the punctures on the scutellum are more 

 widely separated. Areola smooth ; its edges depressed. Calcaria 

 white. The middle and apex of the central area of the post-petiole 

 are smooth ; the rest of the segment and all the others closely 

 punctured. 



OXYPYGI. 



Taphanes, gen. nov. 



Areola not separated behind, large, roundly contracted in the 

 middle, separated from the lateral are®. Abdomen with eight seg- 

 ments ; the post-petiole clearly separated ; gastrocceli deep ; the last 

 segments sharply pointed ; sheaths of the ovipositor largely projecting; 

 the ventral keel distinct on the second and third segments only! 

 Antennae stout, dilated beyond the middle. Labrum visible. Scutellum 

 flat. Areolet 5-angled, narrowed above ; the disco-cubital nervure 

 with the stump of a nerve. Legs short and stout ; the tarsi spinose. 



Belongs to the Oxypygi. May be known by the largely pro- 

 jecting sheaths of the ovipositor, and by the large areola open 

 behind, and roundly narrowed in the middle. The temples are 

 of moderate size ; the occiput is roundly incised ; the post- 

 scutellum bifoveate at the base ; the apex of the median segment 

 has a gradually rounded slope. In Ashmead's arrangement this 

 genus would come near Exephanes. 



Taphanes rufiventris, sp. nov. 

 Black ; the outer and inner orbits, the face, clypeus, labrum, a tri- 

 angular mark on the base of the mandibles, palpi, a line on the apical 

 two-thirds of the pronotum, two lines in the middle of the mesonotum, 



