ON PARASITIC IIYMENOPTERA. 95 



Quetta. June to August. 



Densely covered with long, glistening white pubescence, except on the base 

 of the abdomen. Apex of scutelluni with a broad, rounded, smooth and 

 shining, undivided projection. Metanotum stoutly, widely reticulated. The 

 central basal area fully twice longer than wide ; the sides rounded, not toothed. 

 Femora with 12 teeth ; the basal close together, the apical (except the 

 penultimate, which is smaller and less clearly defined) larger and more widely 

 separated. Basal segment of abdomen smooth and shining ; the 2nd 

 sparsely and not very strongly, the others strongly and closely punctured. 

 Centre of face strongly, but not closely punctured above, the lower part 

 smooth and shining ; the sides strongly and closely punctured, more or less 

 reticulated, this being also the case with the sides of the front and vertex ; 

 middle of front widely, deeply excavated, very smooth and shining, bare. 

 Hinder ocelli separated from each other by more than double the distance 

 they are from the eyes. The antennal scape and pedicle are shining, sparsely 

 haired ; the other joints opaque, stout, the third is narrowed at the base, twice 

 the length of the pedicle and not much longer than the 4th, the apical joints 

 are brownish. Pro- mesonotum and scutelluni strongly, closely punctured. 

 Upper part of propleurse smooth, obscurely striated ; the lower strongly, but 

 not closely punctured. Meso- and metapleuraa coarsely, reticulated-punctured ; 

 the greater part of the base smooth, shining ; of the former, the extreme base 

 is bordered (except near the top) with a row of large foveas, the one below 

 the other. The inner side of the hind tibia? is black. Parapsidal furrows 

 shallow, broad. 



Comes near to C. marginata, Cam. ; the latter species has the abdomen much 

 less strongly punctured ; the mesopleurae much more distinctly striated ; there 

 is only a small smooth space in the centre of the face and all the femora have 

 the apices narrowly yellow, the yellow marks being of the same size on all of 

 them. It is a larger and stouter species ; the metanotal aieola is longer, acutely 

 pointed above and with a stout keel near the middle, and the reticulations on 

 the apex of the metapleuraa are wider. 0. cleeace, Cam., is also closely allied ; 

 the smooth space on the face is very small ; the structure of the metanotal 

 arese is very different ; there is no large central areola ; there is a row of large 

 basal areas ; the abdominal segments in deesce are not punctured. 



This species is not unlike C. lilobatus, Cam. ; that species may be known by 

 the weaker femoral teeth ; by the me^opleuraa being only weakly striated 

 above ; by the face being more strongly punctured, the middle being also 

 punctured, and by the much more strongly and regularly reticulated metanotum 

 on which the areola is clearly defined, deep and triangular ; and the sides do 

 not project into a blunt tooth behind : in the present species they project into 

 a broad, rounded tooth. 



Oncoclialcis rafescens, sp. nov. 

 Rufescent, densely covered with silvery pubescence; the vertex darker 

 coloured, infuscated, the pleurae brighter in tint than the mesonotum ; the 



