8 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



Hylotoma albobalteata, sp. nov. 



Caerulea ; abdominis segmento secundo, tibiis basique 

 tarsorum albis ; alis hyaliiiis, apice fuscis. $ . 



Long. lo mm. 



Antennae nearly as long as the head and thorax 

 united, black, the scape covered with longish, black hair. 

 Head thickly covered with white hair below the antennae, 

 above them only sparsely haired. The frontal area large, 

 its apex triangular, inside finely punctured ; its sides 

 distinctly raised ; the face broadly projecting in the 

 middle ; the apex of the clypeus widely incised in the 

 middle, the sides of the incision oblique, mandibles piceous 

 in the middle ; the palpi pale, suffused with fuscous. 

 Thorax smooth and shining, thickly covered with a pale 

 down. Legs blue-black ; the tibiae and the greater part 

 of the basal joint of the tarsi white, thickly covered with 

 white hair ; the four anterior tibije are blackish behind, 

 the apex of the hinder tibiae fuscous ; the base of the 

 second joint of the hinder tarsi white. Wings hyaline ; 

 the costa and stigma fuscous, the nervures darker ; at the 

 top the second cubital cellule is as long as the second ; 

 at the bottom shorter than it ; the first recurrent nervure 

 is received in the basal third ; the second nearer the base 

 of the cellule. Abdomen with the second segment white 

 all round ; the apical segments thickly covered with soft, 

 white hair ; the last segment is widely incised. 



Comes nearest to H. albocincta Cam. from Nepaul, but 

 that has the third, not the second segment, yellow, the 

 " fore coxae and greater part of the legs pale yellowish," 

 &c., and the tarsi are not black, only white at the base as 

 in the present species. The fuscous cloud extends over 

 the radial, the second and third cubital and more faintly 

 on to the top of the fourth cellules. The tegulae are 

 whitish. 



