4S Cameron, Hymcnoptera Ovicntalia. 



anterior knees, tibiae, and tarsi, the base and apex of the 

 middle tibiae and the apices of the hinder tarsal joints, 

 rufous. Radial cellule closed ; the second recurrent 

 nervure received in the apical third of the cellule. Basal 

 segment of the abdomen except a belt at the apex, with 

 only a few scattered indistinct punctures ; the apices of 

 the others closely punctured ; and sparsely covered with 

 long white hairs ; the apical ventral segment strongly 

 aciculated, rufous at the apex ; there is a distinct curved 

 keel on either side of the penultimate segment. 



TlPHIA FUSCINERVIS, Sp. 110V. 



Nigra, tarsis anticis rufis; abdominis apice longe fulvo- 

 hivto ; alis hyalinis, nervis stigmatequc fuscis. 2. Long, 

 fere 8 mm. 



Hab. Mussouri (Rothney). 



Head densely covered with long fuscous hairs ; shining, 

 strongly punctured, the mandibles broadly ferruginous 

 before the apex ; the palpi dark testaceous. Antennae 

 obscure brownish towards the apex, covered with a pale 

 microscopic pile, the scape shining, coarsely punctured 

 on the inner side. Pronotum closely punctured ; the 

 mesonotum with the punctures larger and more widely 

 separated ; the scutellum with a wide belt of punctures 

 at the apex, a narrower one at the sides and base, and 

 a somewhat broader one down the middle ; the post- 

 scutellum finely rugose. Median segment coarsely alu- 

 taceous ; the keels straight, a little converging towards 

 the apex ; an interrupted keel down the middle at the 

 base ; the apex with an oblique slope. The lower part 

 of the propleurae obliquely striolated ; the upper part 

 obliquely aciculated; the mesopleurae strongly punctured. 

 Legs thickly covered with longish white hairs ; the 

 calcaria pale luteous. Wings hyaline ; the stigma dark 

 piceous ; the nervures pale testaceous. The basal seg- 



