14 Cameron, Hymcnoptcra Orientalia. 



base ; its apex oblique. Median segment closely rugosely 

 punctured ; the base with the punctures larger and 

 more widely separated ; the extreme base impunctate. 

 There is a central pear-shaped area, and two wide lateral 

 ones ; the apex is rounded and transversely striolated in 

 the middle. The lower part of the propleuras shining, 

 impunctate ; the upper with shallow punctures, the meso- 

 and metapleurae closely punctured ; an impunctate spot 

 on the mesopleurae near its apex. Legs fulvous; the apex 

 of the hind femora, of the hinder tibiae and the hinder 

 tarsi except at the base, black. The areolet at the top is 

 as wide as the space bounded by the recurrent and the 

 second transverse cubital nervures. Except at the base 

 the abdomen is closely punctured, the apex of the petiole, 

 depressed at the sides ; the gastrocceli large, the innerside 

 at the base striolated, the outer punctured, the space 

 between longitudinally striated ; the sixth joint entirely, 

 the seventh, black with a large white mark in the middle 

 at the apex ; the two apical segments entirely black 

 beneath. 



Cryptus infernalis, sp. nov. 



Ferrugineus, capite, antennis, abdominisque apice late 

 nigris; flagello antennarum annido late albo ; alis hyalinis, 

 nervis fuscis. Long. 7 mm. 



Hob. Agra (Rothney). 



Head black ; the orbits from the top of the frontal 

 depression to the occiput, white, the white mark nar- 

 rowed at base and apex ; the frontal depression trans- 

 versely striated ; the palpi testaceous. Antennae black, 

 the middle of the flagellum broadly white. Thorax 

 entirely red ; the pro-mesonotum and scutellum shining ; 

 almost impunctate ; the depression at the base of the 

 scutellum crenulated. Median segment closely rugosely 

 punctured ; the base laterally shining and impunc- 

 tate ; at the base and at the top of the flat part is a 



