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the rest of the thorax, its apex is rounded broadly above, the sides of the 
apical slope irregularly transversely striated, more strongly above than 
below. The head, base of mandibles and pronotum densely covered with 
golden pubescence, probably in fresh examples the whole thorax is so. 
Pygidium closely striated, the sides and apex covered with golden pile ; 
no doubt in fresh examples the whole surface has a golden pile There 
are indications of a golden or silvery pile on the apices of the abdominal 
segments. Wings black, tinged with violaceous, the stigma andnervures 
black, basal abscissa of radius as long as the following 2 united, the 2nd 
one-fourth of the length of the 3rd ; the 2nd recurrent nervure received 
shortly beyond the apex of the basal third of the cellule. The space 
between the recurrent nervures is as wide as the 2nd abscissa of the 
radius. Pubescence on metathorax white. ? . 
Length 18 mm. 
Dehra Dun, December (/. JF. Judd). 
Comes near to Ij. nigripennis , Cam., which may be known from it 
by the almost hyaline cubital cellules, by the apex of metanotum being 
abruptly truncate and by the head and thorax being, u dull, opaque, 
very minutely punctured/* not smooth shining and impunctate, as in 
L. nitidus. 
Ampulex compressa , Eab. 
Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India , i. 
Garhi, Dehra Dun, July ( Forest Zoologist’s Collector ). 
Trypoxylon ornatipes , s p. nov. 
Black, the 2nd abdominal segment, the 3rd, and the basal fourth 
of the 4th above and the basal third of the sides rufo-testaceous; the 
anterior tarsi, basal 2 joints of the middle, the base of the 4 hinder 
tibiae narrowly, the spurs and the apex of the trochanters more obscurely, 
whitish yellow, the fore tibiae for the greater part pale testaceous, especially 
in front. Wings hyaline, the stigma and nervures black. Man¬ 
dibles rufo-testaceous. A shallow furrow down the centre of the upper 
half of the front which is roundly bilobate, below it, on the lower half, 
is a distinct keel. Metanotal area with the central depression longish 
oval, narrower at the apex than at the base, irregularly transversely 
striated, the lateral bounding furrows with the striae stronger and more 
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