132 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



gradually wider towards the apex ; the metasternum 

 smooth. Wings hyaline, with a faint fulvous tinge, a 

 fuscous cloud occupies the apex of the radial and the 

 greater part of the second cubital cellule ; the costa and 

 stigma rufo-testaceous ; the nervures darker, paler towards 

 the apex. Abdomen dark rufous, the apices of the basal four 

 segments more or less yellowish, the second and following 

 segments broadly black at the base ; the petiole smooth ; 

 the others closely punctured, and covered (especially the 

 apical) with short, fuscous hair. The four anterior legs 

 yellowish, the femora fulvous behind ; the hinder coxae 

 black, broadly yellow in the middle behind ; the femora 

 dark fulvous ; the tibiae and tarsi fulvous, but lighter in 

 tint than the femora, 



Epirhyssa MACULICORNIS, Sp. nov. 



Flava, nigro-maculata ; antennis nigris; alts hyalinis, 

 apice funiatis ; terebra corpora longiore. 9 . 



Long. 1 5 ; terebra 20 mm. 



Antennae black, slightly thickened towards the apex ; 

 the basal joints of the flagellum brownish beneath ; the 

 apical joints brownish red. Head yellow ; a broad, black 

 line extending across the ocelli from eye to eye, and 

 behind them in the middle roundly dilated to the edge ; 

 in front of them projecting squarely to half way down the 

 front, which is punctured closely but not strongly ; the 

 clypeus at the sides impunctate ; the middle obscurely 

 transversely striated ; the mandibles, and the space between 

 them and the eyes black ; the lower part of this black part 

 being smooth, the upper aciculated. Mesonotum black, 

 except at the tegulae, and a large mark in the middle, 

 longer than broad, transverse at the base and with the 

 sides straight ; the transverse striations stronger and some- 

 what more widely separated laterally. Scutellum finely 



