burnt sienna (Ridgway) ; palpi yellow; antennae pale brown with the 

 scape and the articulations of the flagellum especially towards its base 

 blackish ; legs nearly concolorous with the base of abdomen, the front and 

 middle coxae sometimes yellowish; basal half of the front and middle 

 tibiae and the tarsi strongly yellowish, the apex of the last joint of the 

 middle tarsi and especially of the hind tarsi blackish, of the front tarsi 

 hardly darker; knee-joint, of hind legs and apical fourth of the hind 

 tibiae black; rest of the hind tibiae yellow, shading into ferruginous 

 beyond the middle ; .tegulae and sometimes a small dot on the posterior 

 dorsal corners of the propleura yellowish ; ovipositor black, the spicula 

 dark reddish brown ; wings subhyaline, the veins mostly fuscous with 

 the radix, costal vein, base of subcostal and base of the stigma brown or 

 brownish yellow. 



Head not quite so wide as the mesothorax, transverse, very strongly 

 narrowed behind the eyes, the temples being moderately long, but very 

 oblique and declivous ; f rons rather deeply excavated to form the 

 scrobes, with a slight medial elevation- in front of the ocelli; eyes 

 strongly emarginate internally ; face nearly quadrate, slightly narrowed 

 towards the mouth, uniformly and rather strongly convex; clypeus im- 

 pressed anteriorly and with the apical margin somewhat rounded ; cheeks 

 very short ; antennae about three-fourths as long as the body, slender and 

 nearly filiform although distinctly attenuated towards the base of the 

 flagellum, the latter 22 to 23-jointed, with a very fine, soft, short and 

 thick pubescence. Face, base of clypeus, and scape finely, closely punc- 

 tate, the face with a short, impressed sculptureless line descending me- 

 dially from the antennal scrobes ; impressed part of clypeus, the frons, 

 vertex, temples and occiput polished and smooth or with excessively fine 

 punctures, especially on the temples, the raised portion of the frons in 

 front of the ocelli very finely, closely punctate. The grey pubescence of 

 the face moderately thick and half erect, and considerably longer on the 

 base of the mandibles and clypeus ; temples very finely pubescent. 



Thorax short and stout, strongly narrowed before and behind the 

 gibbous mesopleura ; mesoscutum rather strongly convex, the notauH 

 wholly absent, the scutellum slightly convex ; mesopleura strongly gib- 

 bous below the superior longitudinal furrow, the protuberance above the 

 furrow and just below the tegulae narrow, somewhat cariniform, and 

 very much less elevated than the gibbous part below ; epicnemia running 

 nearly vertically upward on to the pleura, not much inclined forward 

 and widely separated at the extremities from the propleural suture. 

 Propodeum not very strongly convex above and weakly declivous poste- 

 riorly; pleural carina complete; the lateral carinae of the petiolar area 

 distinct only to the obsolete apophyses, disappearing anteriorly so that 

 the dentiparal and spiracular areas are more or less confluent; areolar 

 carinae not greatly distant from each other, subparallel basally, continu- 

 ing apically to beyond the apophyses, where they rapidly diverge and 

 disappear ; areola with the confluent basal area more than twice as long 

 as wide, the petiolar region sliort and somewhat transverse, not bounded 



