184 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



their apices. All the segments are closely and strongly 

 punctured. 



Comes near to P. latifoveata, which may readily be 

 separated from it by the median segment being only 

 sparsely punctured, by the smaller areolet, by the absence 

 of a yellow line on the pronotum, and by the scutellum 

 being more distinctly raised and. less strongly punctured. 



H. Body and legs entirely black. 



PiMPLA EREBUS, Sp. nov. 



Nigra; tibiis tarsisque aniicis fiavotestaceis ; alis hyal- 

 inis, basi fere fulvis ; stigmate nervisque nigris. $ . 



Long. 13 ; terebra 4 mm. 



Face closely punctured, thickly covered with short, 

 white hair ; below the antennae the depression is large, 

 triangular and deep ; the centre is distinctly keeled; there 

 is a distinct, semicircular depression at the base of the 

 clypeus, the apex of which is obliquely depressed, smooth 

 and shining ; the front in the middle is stoutly, trans- 

 versely striolated. Mesonotum almost opaque, thickly 

 covered with short, depressed hair ; the base transversely 

 striated. Scutellum raised, smooth, and shining, sparsely 

 covered with long, white hairs ; the postscutellum with 

 large, deep punctures ; the depression at its sides wide 

 and deep, and bearing large longitudinal striations. The 

 base of the median segment is finely, transversely striated ; 

 the rest, to shortly beyond the middle, strongly trans- 

 versely striated, the striations being thicker in the middle ; 

 the apex is broadly smooth ; the sides striated. The 

 propleurae at the base finely longitudinally aciculated ; 

 the lower part strongly, the apical above more finely 

 longitudinally striated ; the central hollow strongly striated 

 in the middle, smooth at the top and bottom. Mesopleurse 



