no Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



fulvous ; the nervures blackish ; the areolet oblique, 

 narrow ; the lower part of the second transverse cubital 

 nervure obliterated, and from the apex of the thick part a 

 faint nervure runs obliquely to join the recurrent nervure; 

 the top of the areolet is sharply triangular. Abdomen 

 ferruginous, if anything darker towards the apex. 



Heteropelma reticulatum, sp. nov. 

 ' Nigrum; antennis, tegulis,ahdoinine pedibusqtte posticis 

 rufis^ facie, coxis trochanteribusque anterioribus flavis; alts 

 violaceis, stigmate testaceo. 



Long. 20 mm. 



Head black ; the face, clypeus, mandibles, palpi and a 

 short line on the inner orbits above the antennae yellowish 

 with a fulvous tinge. The front finely rugose ; the vertex 

 irregularly reticulated, the inner orbits above, acutely 

 keeled, thickly covered with longish, fuscous hair; the face 

 projects roundly in the middle, is strongly irregularly 

 transversely striated ; the clypeus is less strongly punc- 

 tured, transverse in the middle, its sides oblique. Mandibles 

 yellow, the teeth black, the base of the mandibles punc- 

 tured, the face sparsely covered with long, fuscous hair. 

 Mesonotum closely, the middle rugosely, punctured ; 

 thickly covered with short, fuscous hair ; the apex of the 

 mesonotum and the scutellum coarsely transversely 

 striated. Metathorax coarsely and strongly reticulated 

 and covered thickly with fuscous hair. Propleurae coarsely 

 obliquely striated ; its base smooth ; the apex above 

 coarsely aciculated. The base of the mesopleurae strongly 

 obliquely irregularly striated, forming irregular reticula- 

 tions in the middle ; the apex strongly crenulated ; the 

 metapleurae above and below with some stout, transverse 

 keels. Mesosternum finely punctured; the middle deeply 

 furrowed, widest towards the apex ; on the basal two- 



