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15. NiGRiPES Szepl. 



Fosnatopus 7iigripes Sz6pl., p. 531, $ . Diastephanus n. 

 Enderl. (2), p. 475. 



5 . Frons coarsely rugose ; occiput trans-striate with central 

 impression ; posterior margin of head bordered. Flagellar joints 

 normal. Neck short and broad, transrugose, semiannular smooth. 

 Mesouotura coarsely rugose; scutellum smooth. Mesopleurse 

 aciculate, with diffuse large punctures. Median segment with 

 large, more or less confluent punctures, interstices aciculate. 

 Petiole finely trans-striate, as long as rest of abdomen, Terebra 

 as long as body, sheaths white-banded before a.pex. Hind legs 

 with COX8S transrugose ; femora finely aciculate, bidentate. 



Black ; head and base of antennse red ; middle tibiae basally 

 and the metatarsus white; hind tibiae basally red-brown. Wings 

 hyaline, stigma and nervures black. 



Length 20 mm. 



Habitat : Sumbava, Lesser Sunda Is. Type in Hungarian 

 Nat. Mus., Budapest. 



16. PARViCEPS Enderl. 



Diastephanus parvioeps Enderl. (4), p. 296, $ . 



$ . Head very small and globose. Frons finely alutaceous 

 (under a 27-power lens it appears finely and densely aciculate) ; 

 vertex and occiput finely and densely transaciculate, with a sub- 

 obsolete impression behind. Posterior margin of head bordered. 

 Second flagellar joint one and a half times as long as first : third 

 as long as first and second together. Neck granulate a,ciculate, 

 semiannular smooth ; (mesonotum damaged); scutellum polished, 

 with a few marginal punctures on central lobe, lateral lobes finely 

 punctate. Mesopleiirse with a few coarse }')unctures on anterior 

 half, apex finely and closely punctate. Mefcapleur;e and median 

 segment coalescent with hexagonal cellular impressions, honey- 

 comb-like. Petiole very finely and closely transaciculate, longer 

 than rest of abdomen, which is smooth, only extreme base of 

 second segment finely punctate rugose. Terebra nearly as long 

 as body, spicula ferruginous, sheaths black, white-banded before 

 apex. Hind coxae slender, shining, finely and lightly trans- 

 striate; hind femora shining smooth, with microscopic reticula- 

 tions. 



Black ; head (except apices of mandibles, vertex, and frons to 

 anterior tubercle, which are black-brown), base of antennae, front 

 tarsi, middle tibiae and tarsi ferruginous-yellow ; hind tibiae and 

 tarsi brown. Wings hyaline, nervures brown ; stigma very long 

 and narrow, hyaline. 



Length 11 mm.; abdomen 6| mm.; petiole 3| mm.; terebra 

 10^^ mm. ; fore wing 6 mm. 



Ha,bitat : Soekaranda, Sumatra. 1 §. Dr. Dohrn. 



