Hymenoptera Orientalis, 435 



mark in the centre, the mesosternum, a large oblique mark 

 on the base of the mesopleurae, the base of the scutellum 

 and the metanotum, black ; the greater part of the meso- 

 and meta- pleurae and the median segment, reddish. Abdo- 

 men yellow; the first segment black at base and apex, the 

 centre reddish ; the second segment black and red at the 

 apex ; the third broadly black : the fourth black at the 

 apex, the black in the middle being continued to the base 

 of the segment ; the fifth black at the base, the black being 

 continued in the middle to the apex ; the ventral segments 

 broadly black. Legs ferruginous ; the coxse yellow and 

 red ; the trochanters blackish ; the apex of the hinder tibiae 

 and of the four hinder tarsal joints black. Wings yellowish 

 hyaline ; the apex of both wings infuscated ; the second 

 cellule at the top and bottom longer than the third ; the 

 second and third transverse cubital nervures elbowed at the 

 middle, thus narrowing the second cubital cellule at the 

 top ; the first recurrent nervure is received in the apical 

 third, the second a little before the middle. Antennae 

 ferruginous, longish ; the joints curved ; the third and fourth 

 joints sub-equal. Apex of dypeus bluntly rounded ; the 

 sides rounded. Head, pronotum, and median segments 

 bearing long white hair. $ . 



Long. 14 mm. 



Hab. Poona ( Wroughton). 



How far the ferruginous colour is natural or discoloured 

 by cyanide of potassium, I can't well make out. Certainly 

 some parts of the body are so discoloured. 



Macromeris, Lep, 



Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, Gudr.^ Mag. Zool.^ XIV, 

 pi. 29, 183 1 ; Kohl, /. c. 41. 

 I. Macromeris violacea, Lep. 

 Lep., Nat. Hist. d. Ins. Hym. HI., 463. 

 A common Indian species. 



