2,6 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



further, the basal nervure is not joined to the cubital. 

 The three characteristic features belonging to it are the 

 antennae thickened beyond the middle, and with the 

 third joint much longer than the fourth ; the contracted 

 lanceolate cellule and the long metatarsus. The third 

 and fourth joints of the hinder tarsi are acutely produced 

 at their apices. 



BELDONEA RUGIFRONS, sp. nov. 



Nigra; thorace rufo; medio antennariun, coxis, trochan- 

 tidibiis dimidioqiu basali tibiaruui posticanim albis ; alis 

 hyalinis, fascia siibstigmatali fusca. ?. 



Long. 8 mm. 



Head black, the vertex with a purple tinge ; thickly 

 covered with short, pale pubescence ; the face and clypeus 

 with the hair longer and thicker ; the front rugosely 

 punctured, most strongly in the middle, which is raised 

 and separated from the sides. The vertex behind the 

 ocelli raised ; bounded laterally by a wide and deep 

 furrow ; the lower part, and between the ocelli, rugosely 

 punctured ; the punctuation on the upper part not so 

 strong, and there is a distinct keel down the middle ; the 

 oral region smooth, densely covered with long, white hair; 

 the apical half of the mandibles piceous ; the palpi pale 

 black at the base. Antennae not much longer than the 

 thorax, distinctly thickened towards the apical joint which 

 is itself slightly attenuated and longer than the preceding ; 

 the first, third, fourth, and fifth joints white ; the third 

 joint is almost twice the length of the fourth. Thorax 

 closely punctured above ; the mesopleurae coarsely, 

 rugosely punctured ; the breast smooth ; its central furrow 

 wide and deep at the apex ; the middle lobe of the 

 mesonotum widely furrowed at the base ; the scutellum 

 rugosely punctured ; the metanotum widely depressed in 



