Manchester Memoirs, VoL xliii. (1899), No. 3. 



III. Hymenoptera Orientalia, or Contributions to a 

 knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the Oriental 

 Zoological Region. Part VIII. 



The Hymenoptera of the Khasia Hills. First Paper. 



By P. Cameron. 



\Communicated by J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., J\L.S.] 

 Received October ijth. Read October i8th, i8g8. 



This paper may be looked upon as the commence- 

 ment of a new series of the Contributions to a knowledge 

 of the Hymenoptera of the East Indies, first begun in 

 these Memoirs in 1889. It may b- regarded in the light 

 of a new series in two respects ; in the first place it makes 

 known to us the Hymenoptera of a large district which 

 has not hitherto been worked, so far at least as the 

 Hymenoptera are concerned ; and, in the second place, 

 the collections about to be described and catalogued 

 contain large numbers of species belonging to groups 

 about which up till now our information has been of the 

 most limited description, at any rate as regards the 

 Oriental Region. 



That the part of the eastern Himalayan Range known 

 as the Khasia Mountains is likely to prove exceedingly 

 rich in species there can, I think, be no doubt at all. 

 This seems likely to be more particularly the case with 

 the parasitic species, Ichneumonidce^ Braconidcs, &c., which, 

 judging from our present information, are rare in the 

 Central regions and in the South of India, where their 

 place is probably taken by parasitic Diptera. 



The species recorded and described in this and the 



May 4tk, i8gg. 



