110 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



shorter, and has its sides keeled. Median segment completely areo- 

 lated ; the base in the middle is depressed ; there are five basal arese 

 and three apical ones ; the areola is completely defined ; its base 

 transverse ; its sides oblique ; the sides at the apex are oblique ; the 

 apex rounded inwardly. The spines are long and stout ; the basal 

 depression is keeled laterally. Face flat, hardly projecting in the 

 centre ; the labrum projecting. Occiput widely incised. Temples 

 broad, obliquely narrowed. Areolet five-angled, narrowed at the top ; 

 the cubito-disco nervure has an almost obsolete stump of a nervure. 

 Wings hyaline, or slightly infuscated at the apex. Legs long ; the 

 apex of the hinder femora reaches to the fourth segment. Petiole long 

 and slender ; the post-petiole becomes gradually wider from the base 

 to the apex ; the second and third segments are closely aciculated ; 

 the others smooth ; the apical three segments become gradually 

 narrowed ; the last is largely developed ; the cerci are prominent ; 

 the ovipositor largely projects ; the ventral keel is large, and extends 

 to the apex of the fifth segment. 



The species of this genus known to me are uniformlj'' ferru- 

 ginous, with the wings hyaline, or yellowish-hyaline, at the most 

 only slightly smoky at the apex ; the antennae are similarly 

 coloured, darker towards the apex and lighter in the middle. 

 The median segment is more regularly and completely areolated 

 than usual ; the sides of the abdominal segments do not project 

 laterally. In the male the antennae are not distinctly serrate. 



A distinct genus, easily known by the flat face, the completely 

 areolated median segment, with its stout spines ; the pyramidal 

 scutellum, deeply depressed on the top ; and the abdomen 

 narrowed at the apex, and with a long projecting ovipositor. In 

 the arrangement of Kriechbaumer and Ashmead, the genus 

 would come in near Cryptojoppa. 



ACANTHOJOPPA SCHIZOASPIS, Sp. UOV. 



Ferruginea, facie, clypeo, pleurisque flavis ; antennis ferrugineis, 

 apice late nigris ; alls fulvo-fumatis, stigmate ferrugineo. ? . 

 Long. 15-16 mm. 



Hah. Khasia (coll. Eothney). 



Antennae rufo-fulvous, beyond the sixteenth joint black ; the scape 

 punctured, thickly covered with short black hair ; the flagellum with 

 a pale down. Head rufo-fulvous ; the face and clypeus with a paler 

 yellower tinge ; closely and rather strongly punctured ; the apex of 

 the clypeus impunctate in the middle ; the labrum closely punctured ; 

 thickly covered with long fulvous hair. The apex of the mandibles 

 broadly black. Front very smooth and shining ; the vertex shagreened ; 

 the orbits yellow. The mesonotum dark rufous ; closely punctured, 

 thickly covered with short black hair. Scutellum large, pyramidal ; 

 the base with an oblique slope ; the apex almost perpendicular ; the 

 top roundly and deeply depressed ; the sides somewhat triangular, 

 rounded ; margined ; the basal keels large, curved, acute ; the basal 

 depression narrow, transverse, not very deep ; the hair thick, long, 

 blackish. Post-scutellum yellowish, with an obliquely rounded slope ; 



