Hymenoptera Orientalis. 271 



Hab. Northern India. 1 



CRABRO ODONTOPHORA, sp. nov. (PL X. f. 20, a, b). 



Antennae covered with a microscopic white pile, black, 

 the scape lined with yellow beneath ; the third joint nearly 

 twice the length of the fourth. Head with a plumbeous hue, 

 shining, the front, cheeks and clypeus densely covered with 

 silvery pubescence, the outer orbits of the eyes on the lower 

 side with silvery and the vertex with a pale fuscous hair. 

 Ocelli in a triangle, the hinder separated from the eyes by 

 nearly the length of the third and from each other by 

 nearly the length of the fourth antennal joint. A shallow 

 furrow runs down the front from the vertex ; the front is 

 only slightly excavated ; the clypeus is bluntly keeled, the 

 apex projecting in the middle, almost truncated, but with 

 the sides rounded. Mandibles yellow, black at the apex, 

 covered sparsely with white, glistening hair. Thorax with 

 a plumbeous hue, shining, very minutely punctured on the 

 mesonotum and scutellum ; the pronotum narrowed in the 

 middle in front and with a minute furrow on the top ; the 

 pleural furrows crenulated ; median segment elongate ; 

 shining, covered with long white hair ; furrowed down the 

 middle, the centre at base finely aciculate, the sides finely 

 rugose ; metapleurse shining, not hollowed, almost impunc- 

 tate. Abdomen shining, impunctate ; the petiole hollowed 

 at the base above ; a small mark on either side at its apex ; 

 a large mark on the sides of the third and fourth ; the apex 

 broadly rounded, almost truncated, but with the sides 

 rounded ; pygidium punctured, hollowed in the centre. 

 Legs : hind femora and tibiae clavate ; the latter with a broad 

 furrow on the apical half on the outer side, the former with 

 a broad furrow in the middle on the lower side ; basal joint 

 of anterior tarsi twisted, dilated at the base, the dilatation 

 forming a blunt tooth ; hind calcaria reaching to the middle 

 of metatarsus ; hind coxae at the base projecting in a stout 

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