Indian Forest Fecords. 
rVoL. IX 
Oedaule stringifrons sp. n. (Fig. 18). 
Head and thorax dark aeneous with greenish or coppery metallic re- 
flections the green prevailing above and round the clypeus and along 
the orbits as well as on the coxae which are very dark. Abdomen black- 
ish brown faintly metallic posteriorly with a large clear yellow spot 
basally extending backwards to nearly one half and at its maximum 
occupying three-fourths of the breadth. Wings clear but slightly yellow 
tinted with well defined veins which are darker on (and narrowly round) 
the stigma and on and below’ the junction of the submarginal wdth the 
faintly indicated vena spuria. In the antennae the funicle (and club ?) 
are blackish brown with paler scape, pedicel (darker above) and ring joints. 
Mandibles wdth dark teeth but paler basally, tegulae pale brown. In 
the mid and hind legs the trochanters, femora, and tibiae are clear brown- 
ish the tibiae being paler on the apical 1-. 
Head, from in front, broader than deep, (19 :1G). The eye is half 
as deep as the head and the malar sj)ace §. Frons wide occuj^ying near 
the vertex and towards the base line of the eye, of the breadth of 
the head. Mouth 0 })ening wide. Pattern everywhere strongly raised ; 
on the genae behind the thin impressed malar keel, round the orbits, 
behind the antennae, and on the vertex, it is fine and regular, coarser 
and irregular (with incomplete cells) on the face. Below the level of the 
toruli the entire surface is furrow’ed coarsely in the middle and more 
finely tow’ards the sides, the furrow's converging towards the clypeal edge. 
Thorax. The entire dorsal surface regularly raised reticulate, the 
pattern fine but a little coarser than on the vertex. Where the scutellum 
begins its descent a row of slightly larger cells forms an indistinct and 
faint transverse line. Metanotum ; mid area wfith irregular punctures 
where overhung by the scutellum ; side pieces smoother wfith a feAv shallow' 
indistinct punctures along the anterior edge on the inner half. The 
thoracic pleura are similar in sculpture to the notum. Metapleuron 
divided into two nearly equal areas by a row of larger punctures (3-4) 
which does not quite reach the suture between the epimeron and the meta- 
pleuron. 
Propodeon ; general surface texture like that of thorax but a little 
finer. Mid areas with a shallow triangular depression anteriorly at 
the base of each keel. These run backw'ards to end indefinitely at the 
base of the short petiolar neck, the surface being excavated and smoother 
inside the keels just before the neck. Anteriorly (basally) the lateral 
keels are broad enough to shew a distinct raised pattern but posteriorly 
they thin out to a fine edge. Behind the spiracle the surface is deeply 
excavated and there is a well defined pre-spiracular sulcus widening 
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