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4 posterior are black; the 4 front tibiae and tarsi pallid 

 yellow; the hinder black; the hinder calcaria are black. 

 Wiugs shorter thaa the abdomen, clear hyaline, the stigma 

 and nervures black ; the transverse median nervure is received 

 shorfcly before the transverse basai ; the areolet is rounded 

 on the top; the pedicle is nearly as long as the branches of 

 the transverse cubitals ; the apical nervures in the hind wings 

 are faiut, almost obliterated. Abdomen black; segments 3, 4 

 and 5 red; the 2 Q d rufous below. 



13. Limneria simlaensis sp. nov. $° 



Nigra; abäomine late rufo; pedibus rufis, coxis tro- 

 clianteribusque flavis ; coxis et troc hanterions posticis late, apice 

 tibiarum posticarum tarsisque posticis nigris, — Long 7 mm. 



Hab. Simla. (Nurse). 



Head black; the mandibles and palpi pallid yellow; the 

 mandibular teeth rufous. Face and clypeus opaque, finely 

 and closely punctured and thickly covered with short white 

 pubescence. Front and vertex alutaceous and sparsely pilose. 

 Thorax alutaceous; the scutellum is closely and distinctly 

 punctured. Median segment closely punctured; the apical 

 slope is closely, irregularly reticulated. Pleurae coarsely 

 alutaceous; the propleurae closely striated; the meso-, with 

 the upper part of the oblique central dépression, distinctly 

 striated. Wings clear hyaline ; the nervures and stigma black; 

 the areolet small, oblique and with a pedicle longer than it. 

 Legs rufous ; the hinder pair darker than the others ; the 4 

 front coxae and trochanters pale yellow; the hinder coxae 

 black, broadly yellow on the innerside and less broadly at the 

 apex pale-yellow; the basai joint of the hinder tibiae and 

 tarsi black ; the middle tarsi fuscous. There are two distinct 

 transverse keels on the median segment; the basai one is 

 united to the base of the segment by a keel which bifurcates 

 at the base. The 2nd and 3 r d dorsal segments of the abdomen 

 at the apex, the 4ß- at the base, the others almost entirely 

 and their sides broadly, rufous ; the ventral surface rufous, at 

 the base yellowish. 



Chalcididae. 



14. Chalcis bilobata sp. nov. Q. 



Black, the apex of the fore femora broadly, of the 4 

 hinder more narrowly, the fore tibiae broadly, the base and 

 apex of the middle, a band near the base of the hinder tibiae, 

 their apex more broadly, the tarsi and the tegulae, yellow. 



