40 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



The front and vertex strongly and uniformly punctured ; 

 except the sides of the vertex where it is smooth and 

 dull brownish outside the furrows, which are deep behind 

 the ocelli, obsolete at their sides ; on the front, shortly 

 above the antennae is a smooth conical fovea ; the clypeus 

 is finely punctured, transverse at the apex, the sides oblique. 

 Thorax smooth, shining, impunctate ; the mesonotum 

 thickly covered with short, black hair. The radial nervure 

 is received in the apical, the recurrent nervures in the 

 basal, fourth of the cellules ; the transverse humeral in the 

 basal third. Legs coloured like the thorax, but paler, more 

 yellowish, especially the front pair, the hinder femora and 

 tibiae, except at the apex, and the hinder tarsi black with 

 a purplish tinge, the middle tarsi fuscous. Abdomen with 

 the basal segments luteous ; the apex broken off. 



Emphytus PILIFRONS, Sp. nov. 



Niger, capite dense hirsnto ; basi antennarum, orbitis 

 oadorum, linea pronoti clypeoque rufis ; pedibits nigris, basi 

 tibiarum albo ; alis hyalinis, apicefumatis. $ . 



Long. 8-9 mm. 



Antennae dull black ; the scape and second joint clear 

 fulvous ; the flagellum brownish beneath, thickly covered 

 with short, stiff hair. Head black, thickly covered with 

 short, pale hair ; the vertex shining, the front opaque, 

 granular ; the keels on the vertex deep, curved ; the 

 clypeus at the base broadly, the inner orbits, a mark 

 behind the eyes near the hinder edge, fulvous ; the apex 

 of the clypeus obliquely depressed, roundly incised and 

 brownish ; the labrum large, rounded at the apex, pale 

 testaceous and fringed with long, white hair ; the palpi 

 blackish. Thorax black ; the edge of the pronotum 

 broadly, the lower edge of the propleurae and the tegulae, 

 fulvous. The middle lobe of the mesonotum opaque, 



