48 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



coloured. Pleurae opaque, closely punctured ; the sternum 

 shining, and not quite so strongly punctured. Abdomen 

 shining, smooth, the apical segment pale testaceous. 

 Wings uniformly fuscous-hyaline ; the nervures and 

 stigma black ; the first recurrent nervure is received 

 shortly beyond the middle ; the second quite close to the 

 second transverse cubital nervure. Legs black, the fore 

 femora and tibiae in front for the greater part fusco- 

 testaceous ; the patellae are well developed ; the claws 

 bifid. 



The antennae are absent. The species is very large 

 for an Eriocampa, but does not appear to be separable 

 from it. 



MONOPHADNUS LATICARINATUS, Sp. nov. 



Niger; prothorace, mesonoto cum scutello, mesopleurisque 

 sanguineis ; coxis, trochanteribus femoribusque posticis subtus 

 albis ; alis fumaiis. ?. 



Long, fere 6 mm. 



Antennae short and thick, thickly covered with short, 

 stiff, black hair ; the third joint about one-quarter longer 

 than the fourth. Head black, shining ; the pentagonal 

 area clearly defined ; its apex widened and round, and 

 not so clearly limited as the sides ; between it and the 

 antennae is a large area with thick walls ; it is slightly 

 wider than long, and has a keel down the middle. The 

 clypeus is shining, its apex rounded ; the labrum is fringed 

 with long, white hair ; the palpi long, black, covered with 

 a pale down. Thorax shining, impunctate, thickly covered 

 with pale pubescence ; the parapsidal furrows deep ; the 

 middle lobe is deeply furrowed except at the apex. Legs 

 black ; all the knees, the hinder coxae, trochanters, femora, 

 except above, and the base of the hinder tibiae, white. 

 Wings fuscous, the stigma and nervures black ; the trans- 



