2i8 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



Mesonotum shining ; thickly covered with short, white 

 pubescence ; dark rufous ; a broad black band down the 

 centre of the middle lobe ; the lateral lobes broadly black 

 at the apex. The scutellum very smooth and shining ; 

 thickly covered with long, fuscous hair ; the base deep 

 black ; deeply depressed, the depression slightly dilated 

 backwards at the sides. The median segment has a 

 gradually rounded slope to the apex, is very smooth and 

 shining, and covered with long, white hair ; the base is 

 blackish, and, in its centre behind the postscutellum, is a 

 deep depression, slightly longer than broad, transverse at 

 the base, rounded at the apex ; the apex in the middle 

 has a larger depression, longer than broad, rounded at the 

 base, the sides slightly roundly curved inwardly. Pro- 

 pleurae very smooth and shining, black, broadly rufous 

 at the top ; the mesopleurae shining, obscurely punctured, 

 thickly covered with long, white hair ; black, as is also 

 the sternum ; in the centre is a curved rufous band, broad 

 at the base, becoming narrowed towards the apex, which 

 ends above the middle coxae. Legs stout, short ; the 

 femora thickened ; the tibiae and tarsi stout, dark rufous ; 

 the anterior tibiae and tarsi obscure yellowish ; the fore 

 femora slightly, the four hinder more broadly, black at the 

 base ; the apices of the four hinder tibiae broadly and the 

 hinder tarsi, black ; the calcaria rufous ; the hinder claws 

 black at the apex. Wings fulvo-hyaline ; the costa, 

 nervures and stigma rufous ; the nervures at the base 

 darker ; the petiole of the areolet is as long as it ; its basal 

 nervure is straight, oblique, the apical curved ; the 

 recurrent nervure interstitial, and is sharply obliquely 

 curved above the middle ; the apex of the curve emitting 

 a short branch from the outer angle. Petiole very smooth 

 and shining, black ; the apex broadly rufous ; the second 

 segment entirely black ; the third black, except at the 



