HYMENOPTEROUS FAMILY STEPHANID^. 



795 



Posterior margin of head strongly bordered. Scape longer than 

 cheeks. Second flagellar joint not quite half as long again as first ; 

 third about as long as first and second together. Prothoi'ax 

 strongly trans-striate, with rather broad smooth posterior margin ; 

 mesonotum coarsely punctate, apically smooth ; propleurce lightly 

 punctate ; mesopleurae basally punctate, apically smooth ; meta- 

 pleurte coarsely punctate, separated by a row of punctures from 

 the median segment, which has large and difluse punctures 

 Petiole trans-striate, as long as rest of abdomen, which is finely 

 alutaceous. Terebra shorter than the body, basally rufescent, 

 the colour gradually passing into an ill- defined subapical yellowish 



Text-figure 5. 



Faenatopus rtigiceps. 



ring, extreme apex black. Hind coxte coarsely transrugose, their 

 femora tridentate, the basal tooth broad triangular, the central 

 longer and more rounded, the apical narrow and very sharply 

 pointed ; hind tibise constricted in basal two-thirds. 



Black ; head rufo-testaceous, frons and vertex nigrescent, face 

 and base of mandibles testaceous. Front legs rufo-testaceous, 

 femora darker ; middle legs lighter, with base of tibiae and rather 

 more than basal half of metatarsus white ; hind legs rufescent, 

 the basal and central femoral teeth white, the apical black, apex 

 of tibiae and the metatarsus except its apex white. Wings feebly 

 infuscate, nervures blackish. 



