fymenoptera from the Khasia Hills, 583 
slightly convex, net margined ; the postscutellum bifoveate 
at the base. Spiracles linear. Petiole as in Ichnewmon. 
Gastrocceli large, deep. The base of the mediaa segment is 
not depressed. Wings short, hardly reaching to the apex of 
the third abdominal segment. 
Characteristic are the short wings and antenne. 
Ulesta varicornis, sp. n. 
Black; the median segment and the basal three segments 
of the abdomen rufo-ferruginous; the base of the pronotum 
and the scutellum yellow; the eighth to sixteenth joints of 
the antenne white; the four front legs rufo-ferruginous ; 
the apices of the cox, the trochanters, and the knees 
yellowish ; the hinder coxz, trochanters, and the extreme 
base of the femora reddish ; the femora black, the hinder 
tibiz black, with a broad rufous band above and at the 
middle ; the tarsi blackish. Wings hyaline; the nervares 
and stigma pale fulvous. Mandibles rufous in the middle. 
Palpi pale testaceous. @?. 
Length 11 mm. 
Hab. Khasia. Coll. Rothney. 
Face closely punctured and thickly covered with short 
white hair; the clypeus punctured at the base and on the 
apical margin; the front and vertex are more closely and 
strongly punctured; the punctures on the front running 
into reticulations below. Pronotum closely and somewhat 
strongly punctured ; the mesonotum very closely punctured 
and thickly covered with a pale fulvous down, the scutellum 
thickly with long fuscous hair and strongly punctured. 
Median segment at the base closely punctured, its apex 
closely, transversely, its sides more strongly, obliquely, 
striated; the spiracular area closely rugose behind the 
spiracles, in front of them strongly obliquely striated. Pro- 
pleure above strongly punctured, the lower part with stout 
distinctly separated striations. Mesopleure above closely 
longitudinally striated, below closely punctured; they are 
covered with pale fulvous hair. Metapleure closely punc- 
tured, the apex obliquely striated. Apex of petiole laterally 
strongly punctured, the middle finely longitudinally striated, 
the second, third, and fourth segments closely punctured ; 
the gastrocceli large, smooth, except for three stout keels on 
the base ; the space between them is sharply longitudinally 
striated ; the apical segments are thickly covered with white 
hair; the sheaths of the ovipositor black, thickly covered 
with white hair. 
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