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ON THE PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA COLLECTED BY 

 MAJOR C. G. NURSE IN THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 



By P. Camekon. 

 To make this paper more complete I have added, as an appendix, a 

 list of the Parasitic Hymenoptera described previously from the 

 Bombay Presidency. As will be seen, the catalogue is not an extensive 

 one. 



Bethylisle. 

 Dissepyris pallidinervis, sp. nov. 



Black, the scape, pedicle of antennae, mandibles, palpi, legs, tegulae, the 1st 

 abdominal segment, the 2nd broadly laterally, at the base, more narrowly in 

 the middle and the apical segment more obscurely, red ; fore wings slightly 

 but distinctly smoky, the hinder clear hyaline, the apices not ciliated ; the 

 stigma, parastigma and nervures pale, the radius darker coloured at the apex. 

 Head opaque, more shining at and behind the ocelli, finely closely shagreened, 

 almost punctured and bearing small, shallow scattered punctures. Eyes large ; 

 the temples one-fourth of their length ; malar space about as long as the 

 temples, shorter than the pedicle of antennae. There is no distinct keel between 

 the antennae ; ocelli in a triangle, the hinder separated from each other by a 

 distinctly less distance than they are from the eyes. Terminal tooth of 

 mandibles long, gradually narrowed. Occiput transverse. Pronotum not quite 

 so long as the head behind the antennae ; aciculated, sparsely punctured, the 

 punctures distinctly larger than those on the head ; the punctures on the head 

 are still larger. Metanotum irregularly, closely obliquely striated ; it bears 

 5 keels in the middle ; the central is stout, straight ; the inner 2 converge and 

 become weaker, more irregular towards the apex ; .the outer are stronger and 

 curve roundly, broadly inwardly at the apex ; they are more widely separated 

 from the 2nd than that is from the central ; there is an indistinct longitudinal 

 furrow on the inner side of the outer bordering keel. Pro- and mesopleurae 

 finely, the metapleurae more strongly and regularly obliquely striated. The 

 pubescence on the legs is longish, white and moderately dense. The 2nd 

 discoidal cellule has the apical and lower nervures faint compared with the 

 upper basal. The radius is not much longer than the stigma and parastigma 

 united ; the transverse median nervure is roundly curved ; its lower part being 

 opposite the apex of the transverse basal; it has not the upper and lower parts 

 straight, oblique and sharply angled where the lower abscissa leaves the upper, 

 as shown in Kieffer's figure of D. rufipes (also from Bombay) — Ann. d. 1. Soc. 

 Scient. de Bruxelles, XXIX, pi. 1, f 12. The apices of tarsal joints are armed 

 with stiff longish spines ; the tibiae not spinose, the hinder shorter than the 

 tarsi, the metatarsus below thickly covered with stiff hair ; it is distinctly 

 shorter than the following 2 joints united. The sides of the metanotum at the 

 apex above bear a short blunt tubercle, before the terminal curve. $. 



