32 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



Taxonus fulvipes, sp. nov. 



Niger, abdomine late testaceo-balteato ; pedibiis testaceis, 

 anticis pallidis ; alts fiisco-hyalinis, nervis stigmateqiie 

 nigris. $ . 



Long. 6 mm. 



Antennse about as long as the abdomen, thickly 

 covered with short, black hair; the third and fourth 

 joints are about equal in length. Head shining, above 

 thickly covered with short, black, the face thickly with 

 longer fuscous hair ; the labrum with still longer pale hair ; 

 the palpi pale testaceous ; the incision in the clypeus 

 rounded, not very deep ; its sides almost triangular. 

 Thorax black, an irregular white mark on the mesopleurai 

 behind ; the mesonotum and scutellum minutely punctured, 

 thickly covered with short, black hair ; the pleurae and 

 sternum more sparsely with white pubescence. The 

 radial nervure is received shortly beyond the middle of 

 the cellule ; the second cubital cellule is slightly longer 

 than the third ; the recurrent nervures are received 

 distinctly in front of the middle of the cellule ; the 

 transverse basal nervure is received beyond the middle of 

 the cellule. In the hind wings the humeral nervure is 

 interstitial. On the abdomen the basal, the sides of the 

 second segment at the base and the apical three segments, 

 with the sheaths of the ovipositor, are black. The front 

 coxae and trochanters are white, the femora and tibiae 

 pallid-fulvous, the tarsi at the apex infuscated ; the four 

 anterior legs are not so pallid at the base ; the apex of the 

 tibiae and the tarsi blackish ; the claws are simple. 



Appears to be a true Taxonus^ the first recorded east 

 of Europe. The nervure in the lanceolate cellule is not 

 quite so oblique as it is in the typical species of Taxonus, 



Rethrax. gen. nov. 

 Eyes converging beneath, not reaching to the base of 



