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raised. Post-scutellum raised, conical, clearly separated. Lower part 

 of mesopleurfe with a large, long, deep depression or furrow. Radial 

 cellule long, reaching to the apex of the wings ; it issues from shortly 

 beyond the middle of the stigma; the first abscissa is minute. Stigma 

 large. There are two transverse cubital nervures ; the first cubital 

 cellule is the smaller, the third the largest. Transverse median nervure 

 received shortly beyond the transverse basal ; the recurrent nervure is 

 interstitial. Second discoidal cellule open at the apex below ; the 

 discoidal nervure is received beyond the recurrent nervure. The 

 cubitus and radius in hind wings do not reach to the apex of the wing. 

 Palpi long, slender ; the maxillary 6-jointed. The second abscissa of 

 the radius is longer than the first transverse cubital nervure ; the 

 cubital cellules are separated from the discoidal. The second ab- 

 dominal segment is smooth and shining like the others ; it has no 

 transverse furrow. The large radius is gradually narrowed towards 

 the base and apex. In the hind wings there is a closed prtebrachial 

 cellule ; below it are two cellules, a shorter closed basal and a longer 

 apical one open at the apex below. 



Characteristic of this genus is the strongly tuberculate or 

 raised post-scutellum. The only genus with this feature is 

 Hajjlitalysia, Ashm., but that differs in some essential particulars 

 from the genus here described. In the table of Szepligeti (Gen. 

 Braconidae, p. 202) my genus would run near to Phcenocarpa and 

 Adelura, but these genera have not a tuberculate post-scutellum. 

 The large deep central furrow on the apical half of the mesonotum 

 is noteworthy. 



Holcalysia testaceipes, sp. nov. 



Black, shining ; the outer orbits, except at the centre of the eyes, 

 the inner more narrowly and more obscurely, the oral region and 

 mandibles, rufo-testaceous ; the palpi and legs of a paler, more yellowish 

 testaceous colour ; wmgs hyaline, the nervures and stigma black ; the 

 apical and transverse nervures paler ; the antenna? are thickly covered 

 with white pubescence. <? . Length, 4 mm. 



Antennae longer than the body, smooth and shining ; the meso- 

 notum at the sides of the scutellum, the median segment and the 

 basal abdominal segment closely, strongly aciculated. The large, 

 wide mesopleural depression is also aciculated ; in it, near the middle, 

 are two clearly separated, not very distinct, keels ; at the upper side 

 of the apex is a distinct furrow ; the upper side of the apex is longer 

 than the lower, it being obliquely sloped. The first abdominal segment 

 is about two and a half times longer than wide ; the centre is raised ; 

 the depressed sides finely, closely, longitudinally striated. 



New Names for Hymenoptera. 



Zethoides, Cam. (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. 93) non Fox = 

 Plesiozethiis, Cam. 



Nomia metallica, Cam. (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, 247) non Smith 

 = N. Willeyi, Cam. 



Cerceris himalayensis, Cam, (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Feb. 1905) 

 non Bing. = assamensis, Cam. 



