82 Mr. P. Cameron on ITumenoptera 



below, tubercles, a large mark on the lower half of the meso- 

 pleurai (rounded below and extending on to the sternum, 

 rounded and narrowed above at the apex), an oval spot below 

 the hind wings, a large mark in the middle of the metapleurge 

 (transverse at the base, the three other sides broadly rounded), 

 the postpetiole, almost the apical half of the second segment, 

 two broad marks (obliquely narrowed towards the base) on 

 the apical half of the third, two smaller oldique triangular 

 marks on the sides of the fourth, a narrow line on the apex of 

 the filth and sixth, and tlie seventh from shortly behind the 

 middle, bright orange-yellow, as are also the legs (except the 

 fore femora behind, the middle at the base all round and at 

 the apex, slightly more broadly above, the middle yellow part 

 being about as long as the black apical) ; the basal and apical 

 third of the posterior all round, the base narrowly of the four 

 hind tibiae (their apices more broadly), the four anterior tarsi 

 above, and the hind coxee and trochanters, black. The 

 underside of the antennal scape yellow, the sixth to fourteenth 

 joints of the flagellum white. Wings hyaline, the uervures 

 and stigma black. (^ . 



Length 14 mm. 



llunjit Valley, Sikkim, 1000 feet; April {C. T. Bingham). 



Head closely punctured, the apex of clypeus and a large 

 round depression over each antenna smooth, shining. Thorax 

 closely punctured, the depression in the centre of propleurre 

 obliquely irregularly striated ; the apex of the mesopleurse 

 finely, closely, obliquely striated below. Median segment 

 closely rugosely punctured, the apex of the posterior median 

 area transversely striated; the lateral apical area3 more 

 strongly, irregularly, and much less closely striated ; the 

 aj)ex ot the pleurae irregularly, stoutly, obliquely reticulated. 

 Postpetiole smooth, the second and third segments closely 

 punctured. Gastrocoeli longer than wide, somewhat pyii- 

 form, smooth on the inner side at the base, the outer side 

 coarsely aciculated. Tarsi closely spinose. The areolet 

 5-angled, large, the recurrent nervure received shortly beyond 

 the middle. 



For a synopsis of the Indian species of Ilalq^hera see ' The 

 Entomologist/ 1901, p. 307. Inter alia, the present species 

 may be kncjwri by the broad continuous band on the second 

 abdominal segment. 



DiPLOPTERA. 



Odynerus Hewittii, sp. n. 



Black ; the mandibles (except at extreme apex), clypeus. 



