MONOGRAPH OF THE WASPS OF BRFFISII IXDIA. 499 



Mandibles with a strong tooth on the inner margin near the middle ; 

 clypeus slightly concave, widely and deeply emarginate at the apex, with, 

 an oblique carina on each side close to the apical angles. Antennce 

 inserted about half as far again from the anterior ocellus as from the base 

 of the clypeus, the second joint of the flagellum distinctly longer than the 

 third. Head very broad, the eyes diverging a little towards the clypeus, 

 separated on the front by a distance equal to about three times the length 

 ■of the scape. Cheeks very broad, oxceeding the greatest breadth of the 

 ■eye, and armed witJi a stout acute tooth. Posterior ocelli more than half 

 us far again from the eyes as from each other. Head, thorax and abdo- 

 men closely but not deeply punctured, more shallowly on the abdomen 

 than elsewhere. Pronotum shallowly depressed in the middle; meso- 

 pieuree armed with two small spines before the intermediate coxse. 

 Enclosed area at the base of the median segment obliquely striated, 

 divided by a shallow median groove. First abdominal segment nearly 

 twice as broad as long, the second segment only half as broad again as the 

 first, without a raised area at the base on the ventral siirface. Fifth 

 ventral segment not margined or raised, without spines at the angles. 

 Pygidial area twice as long as the greatest breadth, gradually narrowed 

 and truncate at the apex, nearly twice as broad at the base as at the 

 apex. First recurrent nervure received at the middle of the second 

 •cubital cell. 



Lemon yellow ; front and vertex black ; an oblique spot on each side on 

 the vertex, the front below the base of the antennce, produced upwards in 

 three parallel bands, the middle one reaching the anterior ocellus yellow ; 

 mesonot\.im black, with a yellow longitudinal band on each side near the 

 middle and a spot above the tegulse ; the enclosed area at the base of the 

 median segment black with two small yellow spots ; a broad line extend- 

 ing to the apex of the median segment, the base of all the dorsal abdomin- 

 al segments narrowly, and a line on the middle of segments 1-4 black. 

 Flagellum and pygidial area testaceous brown. Wings hyaline, fuscous at 

 the extreme apex. 



Habitat — Karachi {Comber), September and October ; Deesa {Nurse) ; S. 

 •Othman, Arabia {Nurse). March. 



Xear C. Komarowii Rad. but in that species there are two tubercles 

 near the middle of the clypeus, and the shape of the pygidial area is 

 •different. 



S Similar to the female, but the clypeus is strongly convex, half as 

 long again as the greatest breadth and truncate at the apex. Antennae 

 inserted half as far again from the anterior ocellus as from the base of the 

 clypeus. Cheeks without spines. Pygidial area more than half as long 

 again as broad, the sides parallel. The apical joint of the flagellum is 

 strongly curved. This species has probably reached the desert portion 



