1/4 Cameron, Hymenoptei^a Orientalia. 



crenulation. Metapleurse closely, longitudinally striated, 

 the striae on the apex stronger than on the base. The fore 

 legs are bright lemon-yellow, except at the base of the 

 coxae ; the middle lemon-yellow, except the coxae and the 

 base of the trochanters ; the hinder legs black, except the 

 basal half Wings hyaline, the basal half suffused with 

 fulvous ; the stigma and nervures black. The base of the 

 petiole is strongly punctured ; the sides strongly aciculated ; 

 the other segments are closely and uniformly punctured; 

 on the under side, in the middle at the base, the petiole 

 has two straight, slightly diverging keels ; its apex is finely 

 transversely striated, 



PiMPLA FLAVIPALPIS, Sp. nov. 



Nigra; linea pronoti, sciitello, metanoto abdommeque 

 alboinaculatis ; pedibus rufis, coxis anterioribus albis, nigro- 

 maculatis, coxis posticis nigris, alboinaculatis ; alis hyalinis^ 

 stiginate nigro. $ et '^ . 



Long. 7- 1 1 ; terebra 2 mm. 



Antennae slender, black; the scape closely punctured, 

 yellow beneath. Head shining; the front hollowed, 

 shining, the middle bare, the sides bearing a short, white 

 pubescence; the lower ocellus bordered with an irregularly 

 crenulated furrow, from which a narrow, smooth one runs 

 down to the antennae. Face strongly and closely punc- 

 tured, thickly covered with white hair ; the face in the 

 middle shining, smooth, slightly projecting. Mandibles 

 at the base closely rugose ; the palpi yellow. Thorax 

 black; a narrow line on the pronotum, a mark on the 

 scutellum and postscutellum and two elongated tubercle- 

 like marks on the sides of the median segment, extending 

 from the middle to the apex, and the tubercles, yellow. 

 Mesonotum smooth and shining ; the scutellum covered 



