BESCRIPTIONS OP NEW HYMENOPTERA. m% 



angular on the top and reaching to the top of the clypeus, which is 

 'transverse at the apex. The labrum is depressed in the middle. Man- 

 dibles black, broadly rufous before the apex. Legs black; the base 

 of the tibise and the anterior tibise in front fuscous. Wings hyaline, 

 •with a slight fuscous tinge* the stigma and nervures black j the first 

 recurrent nervure is received in a broad angle behind the middle of the 

 ■cellule, the cubitus in front of it being largely buUated ; the second is 

 received at the apex of the basal fourth. The depression between the 

 cenchri is wide at the base, becoming gradually narrov/ed towards the 

 apex. 



The a,ntenng3 in the $ are longer, thicker and more densely pilose 

 than they are in the $ ; the third joint is distinctly shorter than th« 

 fourth, 



EXPLANATIONS OF PLATE. 



1. Meknapis violaceipennis, 9. 



2. Lamproapis maculipennis. $^ 



3. Pompilus heraclides. $ . 



4. Nursea carinata. 9. 



5. Meira quadrimaculata. 9 • 



6. Poecilotiphia albomaculata. 

 7, la. Notogonia pulcherrima. 9, 



8. Mutilla regia. 9 . 



10. Nothaima bicarinata. $^ 



11. Bracon deeste, wing. 



12. Lithracia flavipes. <^„ 



13. Pyncobracon niger. 9, 



14. Ditherus ruficollis. $„ 



15. Fethalia nigra, 9- 



