62 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



with black hair ; the epipygium cultriform ; the ventral 

 surface dirty yellow. 



B. Abdomen not greatly lengthened, at the inost not 

 much moix than twice the length of the head and thorax 

 united, the securiform articulation distinct. 

 I. Abdomen not striolated. 



a. Fore-wings with two black clouds. 



B. orietitalis and V-macula. 



b. Fore-wings with one black cloud. 



B. simlaensis, lepcha 2sxd^ phczdo. 



Bracon V-macula, sp. nov. 



Luteus; antemtis nigris ; capite flavo, supra nigro- 

 maculato ; alls flavo - hyalinis, nigro - bifasciatis, apice 

 fuscis. ? . 



Long. 14-15; terebra 10 mm. 



Antennae as long as the body; the scape shining, 

 bearing a few longish, black hairs; the flagellum brownish 

 beneath. Head yellow ; the vertex broadly black ; the 

 black continued broadly, triangularly behind and as a 

 square in front, to the base of the antennae; shining, 

 impunctate; the vertex and front covered sparsely, the 

 face more thickly, with longer, white pubescence ; the face 

 is sparsely and indistinctly punctured ; the mandibular 

 teeth black ; the palpi pale testaceous, thickly covered 

 with white hair. Thorax shining, impunctate, sparsely 

 covered with longish, paler hair ; the lobes of the meso- 

 notum infuscated, of a mahogany colour ; the furrow on 

 the mesopleurae is curved and extends from the base to 

 the apex. The upper half of the metapleurae at the apex 

 is deeply excavated ; the sides of the excavation oblique ; 

 at the base, continuous with it, is a smaller hollow. Legs 

 ferruginous, the tibiae and tarsi paler, of a faint yellowish 



