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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF 
HYMENOPTERA COLLECTED BY MAJOR C. G. 
NURSE AT DEESA, SIMLA AND FEROZEPORE. 
By P. Cameron. 
Part II. 
(^Continued from page 293 of this Volume.^ 
ANTHOPHILA.* 
Lamproapis, gen. nov. 
Wings with two cubital cellules in the forewings | the second cellule 
receives both the recurrent nervures ; the first at a slightly greater 
distance than the second from the transverse cubital nervure. Radial 
cellule long, narrow, lanceolate, extending to the apes of the wing ; the 
transverse median nervure is received on the outer side of the externo- 
median, not behind it. Antennae stout, bare, the second joint is two-thirds 
of the length of the third ; the last joint is about one-third longer than 
the preceding. Ocelli not quite forming a triangle (.'.). Clypeus 
transverse, the labrum large, gradually narrowed towards the apex. 
Mandibles long, rather narrow, hollowed on the outer side. Legs 
thickly covered with short pubescence ; the claws are bifid ; the 
anterior calcaria are cleft at the apex and have, on the upperside, a 
broad, diaphanous, rounded dilatation; the middle tibite have only one 
spur ; the hinder two ; they are sharp and bare ; the basal joint of the 
hinder tarsi is stout and is longer than the following three joints 
united. Scutellum large, convex, depressed in the middle above. 
The base of the median segment forms a large triangular area. Abdo- 
men Smooth and shining, sparsely haired towards the apex ; the basal 
segment is largely depressed at the base ; the pygidium depressed ; the 
sides raised, keeled ; the apex incised in the middle. The abdomen is 
longer than the head and thorax united | it is narrowed at the base and 
apex and is distinctly curved above ; there are seven dorsal segments. 
This genus has no near relationship with any of the known Indian 
genera with two cubital cells. It comes nearest to the European genus 
Difourea with which it agrees in having the body bare and shining j 
it differs from it in the transverse median nervure, being received in 
* To the list of Indian Bees should be added Epeolusfervidus, Smith, Description of New 
Sp. of Hym., p. 102, from the Bombay District. Col. Bingham has overlooked the des- 
cription of this species. The genus is not included in his work. The specie? are piu'asitis 
and are found in most parts of the world. 
420 JOVBNAL, BOMBAY NATUEAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIV. 
front of, not behind, the externo-median ; the head is much more 
distinctly narrowed behind the ejes and the occiput is not transverse, 
but incised ; the scutellum is convex, distinctly raised, and rugose and 
depressed in the middle ; the radial cellule is more elongated, it 
reaching nearer to the apex of the wing ; and there is a marked 
difference in the relative lengths of the discoidal cellules ; in Dufourea 
the first and second are of about equal lengths ; in the prcseni genus the 
first is much longer and narrower compared to the second ; the third 
also is longer and naiTOwer, being longer than broad, not broader than 
long. It cannot readily be confounded with Panurgus. It has more 
the appearance of Halictus. I unfortunately can say nothing about 
the form of the trophi, not having a spare specimen to risk dissecting. 
Lamproapis maculipennis, sp. 710V. (PI. fig. 2.) 
Nigra, nitida ; capite thoraceque albo pilosis ; alls hyalinis, apice 
fusco-violacis, nervis stigmateque nigris, ? . 
Long : 8 m.m. 
Habitat ; Simla. 
Scape of antennae closely punctured, and thickly covered with black 
pubescence ; the flagellum with a pale pile. Head closely and distinctly 
punctured and sparsely covered with long fuscous hair; the orbits 
margined. Face and clypeus thickly covered with depressed silvery 
pubescence and strongly and closely punctured ; the depressed labrum 
is thickly and similarly covered. The collar is smooth and depressed 
behind. Mesonotum closely, uniformly and rather strongly punctured 5 
in the centre 13 a narrow, deep furrow ; scutellum roundly convex, 
rugosely punctured, widely depressed in the middle and thickly covered 
with long black hair. The triangular area on the median segment is 
large, strongly aciculated, more strongly at the base than at the 
apex ; the base is irregularly striated. Pleurse closely punctured, the 
lower part and the sternum thickly covered with white pubescence. 
Legs black ; the apex of the fore femora and the fore tibiae in front 
are rufo-testaceous ; the tarsi and apex of the tibia3 are thickly cover- 
ed with fulvous pubescence ; the rest of the legs have a sparse 
white pile. Abdomen smooth and shining, bare, the apex sparsely 
pilose. 
Melanapis, geJ2. nov. 
Last abdominal segment with a longitudinal bare rima, bordered by 
distinct keels ; its sides thickly covered with long stiff hairs, Trophi 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW MTMENOPTEMA. 421 
sliort ; the labial 4-, the maxillary palpi 6- jointed ; the basal joint of 
the labial is not quite twice the length of the second— about the length 
of the second and third united ; the apical two joints are sub-equal. 
Ocelli in a curve (.'.)• ^acQ and cljpeus not elongated ; the apex of 
the clypeus with a distinct border triangularly projecting at the apex 
and slightly, but distinctly, curved. Head and thorax thickly covered 
with longish hair ; the median segment with an area on the base, 
Soutellum flat. Legs thickly haired ; the hair on the hinder tibia and 
tarsi long and thick ; their claws have a sub-apical tooth ; the front 
calcaria have a membraneous dilatation at the base ; there is only one 
on the middle tibiae ; the hinder are long, thin, curved and bare. 
Wings with three cubital cellules ; the second and third are equal in 
length on the top ; but below the third is about one-half longer, bein o- 
nearly as long as the lower side of the first ; both the recurrent 
nervures are received shortly beyond the middle of the cellules ; stioma 
distinct, the radial cellule is narrow, longish, but not reaching to the 
apes of the wing. Abdomen, except on the apical segments, bare and 
shining ; the apical segments thickly covered with long black hair « 
the ventral surface is almost bare. 
The antennae are bare and shining, short, about the length of the 
thorax ; tbe third joint twice the length of the fom'th ; the mandibles are 
longish, stout, and end at the apex in a broad, bluntly rounded tooth which 
is clearly separated ; the labrum is not produced, the tarsi are short and 
the apical joints are narrow, compared to the basal one, which is as 
long as the others united and enlarged ; the middle joints are fringed 
with stiff hairs at the apex ; the last joint is as long as the preceding 
two united. The anterior ocellus is not in a pit. The- front is keeled 
in the middle. Eyes parallel, reaching close to the base of the 
mandibles. 
The deep black body, large size 'and violaceous wings give this 
genus the appearance of a small Xylocopa, but it has no near 
relationship to that genus. In Bingham's table on p. 414 this 
genus comes into, " A. Forewings with three cubital cells, a Maxil- 
lary palpi 6-jointed, a^ -Posterior tibige densely pubescent, a^ Ocelli 
in a curve on the vertex " ; but it cannot be confounded with Halietus^ 
Nomia or Tetralonia, the three genera included in the section. 
It has the anal rima of Halictus, but otherwise has no near relationship 
to that genus. 
422 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIV^ 
Melanapis violaceipennis, sp. rov. (PI. fig. 1.) 
Niora, nitida, capite thoraceque nigra pilosis ; alis fusco-violaceis, 
nervis stigmateque nigris. $ et ^ . 
Long : 13-14 m.m. 
Habitat : Ferozepore. 
Antennae almost bare ; from tlie third joint rufous beneath. Head 
covered with long black hair ; thickest on the occiput and beneath. 
Clypeus closely and distinctly punctured and sparsely haired ; the 
face is less distinctly punctured and more thickly haired ; the apex of 
the clypeus is roundly, but not deeply, incised and has a distinct margin. 
Mandibles smooth and covered with long black hair on the underside. 
Thorax thickly covered with long black hair. Mesonotum strongly 
and closely punctured ; the centre less closely than the sides and apex. 
Scutellum similarly punctured, most closely towards the apex. 
Median seo"ment rugosely punctured ; in the centre, at the base, is a 
large, somewhat triangular area, formed of irregular longitudinal keels, 
intersected with short, irregular transverse ones. Mesopleurse closely 
ruo-osely punctured. Wings uniformly fuscous- violaceous; the stigma 
and nervures black. Legs black ; the four hinder thickly covered with 
lono" black hair ; which is very long and thick on the hinder tibise and 
to a less extent on the metatarsus. Abdomen smooth and shining, bare 
except on the fifth segment, which is thickly covered with long black 
hair ; the sixth segment is bare in the middle ; the bare part being 
distinctly bordered or keeled ; outside the border it is fringed densely 
with stiff black pubescence. The apical two ventral segments are fringed 
thickly with long black, stiff pubescence ; the others are almost bare. 
The $ is similar to the 9 and is, if anything, more thickly haired ; 
the leo-s and abdomen offer no noteworthy peculiarity. 
AnDPvENA siml^nsis, sp. nov. 
Nio"ra, nitida, sparse albo pilosa ; clypeo albo ; basi metanoti punc- 
tata ; alis hyaliuis, stigmate fusco. $. 
Long : 9 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Scape of antennae shining, sparsely covered with long white hair ; 
the flagellum with a pale pile. Clypeus smooth and shining, yellowish- 
white ; there is an oblique white mark on either side of its lower edge 
between it and the eyes ; the vertex behind the ocelli is bare, smooth 
nd shining ; the rest of the vertex and the front covered, but not 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW HYMENOPTERA, 423 
tliickly, with long blackish hair. Mandibles long, curved ; when closed 
their apices reach near to the inner side of the eyes ; they are black ; 
their apex bright red ; at the base of the red part, and distinct from the 
apes, is a rounded, clearly separated tooth. Thorax smooth and shining 
sparsely covered with longish white hair ; the mesonotum is minutely 
and closely punctured ; on it are two longitudinal furrows ; the punc- 
tuation is closer and stronger at the apex. Median segment opaque, 
closely granulai', the area clearly separated and not differing in 
sculpture from the rest of the segment. Legs black ; the hair on the 
femora is white, sparse and long ; it is thicker on the tibiee ; on the 
metatarsus it is still denser, long and of a fulvous tinge ; the spurs 
are pale. Abdomen smooth and shining ; the apices of the segments 
are brownish ; the basal four dorsal segments are almost bare ; the 
apical segments are fringed with long brownish hair, the ventral 
segments are sparsely covered with long pale hair. The second cubital 
cellule at the top is as long as the third ; the first and second transverse 
cubital nervures are distinctly bullated at the top and bottom. 
This species comes into Bingham's section " A. Enclosed space at base 
of median segment punctured " and " B. Median segment without a 
medial vertical furrow "; but is not related to either of the species 
included in it. 
CHRYSIDIDyE. 
EUCHRCEUS CUPREIVENTEIS, Sp. nOV. 
Viridis, coeruleo maculate ; geniculis, tibiis tarsique testaceis ; alis 
fusco-violaceis. 9 
Long : 10 m.m. 
Habitat : Deesa. 
Scape of antennas green, closely punctured and covered with white 
pubescence ; the flagellum black, covered with a white down. Vertex 
bright-green, with golden and blue tinges; strongly and deeply punc- 
tured and sparsely covered with short white pubescence ; the depressed 
front is sparsely and shallowly punctured ; above thickly covered, on 
either side of the middle projection, with depressed white pubescence ; 
the sides are also covered with depressed pubescence, as well as the 
sides of the clypeus. The apex of the clypeus has a row of large, deep, 
irregular fovese. Mandibles rufo-testaceous, darker towards apex ; the 
base has a green patch. The front ocellus is surrounded at the back and 
sides by a smooth furrow, which is prolonged below them at the apex. 
iU JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIV, 
Pronotum closely and rather strongly punctured ; at the sides in front it 
projects into shar|3, short teeth ; the apex laterally, broadly triangularly 
projects ; the base in the middle is slightly and broadly incised. The 
base of the mesonotum ia depressed broadly on the sides ; the depression 
is widest on the innerside and is finely and closely punctured ; the 
rest of the mesonotum bears scattered, moderately large and deep 
punctures which are largest in the middle, close to the scutellum, it 
being there blue coloured. Scutellum deeply punctured ; the punc- 
tures are large and deep ; their boundary walls are mostly blue. 
The post-scutellum projects over the median segment ; it is large, 
broad at the base, becoming gradually narrowed towards the apex 
which is rounded ; it is coarsely and deeply punctured like the scutel- 
lum and is, for the greater part, blue. The median segment, imme- 
diately beneath it, is stoutly punctured ; the sides with three stout 
oblique keels. In the centre of the segment is a large area divided 
down the centre by a stout keel ; the top is broadly rounded on either 
side ; inside, above the middle on either side, are two stout, slightly 
oblique keels ; below is a short, irregular, stout curved keel. The sides 
of the segment triangularly project and are closely, rugosely punc- 
tured. Propleurse irregularly striated and with some deep punctures ; 
below the middle is a curved projection ; the part below this is closely 
and minutely punctured. The tegulae large and rather strongly punc- 
tured. Wings uniformly fuscous-violaceous ; the nervures black ; the 
radius is thick. Abdomen : the apex of the first, the base and apex of the 
second and the base of the third segments closely and minutely punc- 
tured ; the rest of them bear larger, more widely separated punctures ; 
the apical depressions are thickly and broadly covered on the basal 
region with depressed white pubescence ; the apex beyond the depres- 
sions is closely and strongly punctured ; the extreme edge is beset all 
over with stout, mostly bluntly pointed, short spines intermixed with 
smaller, sharper ones. The ventral surface is entirely coppery-brown 
in colour and is smooth and shining. The apex of the first segment 
in the centre and the base and apex of the second and third more broad- 
ly blue ; the green has slight golden tints ; the sides of the first and 
second seo-ments at the apex are covered with white pubescence. The 
coxse trochanters and femora are bluish-green ; the fore femora at the 
apex, the four front tibise anteriorly and the hinder knees, tibise 
and tarsi are rufo-testaceous. 
DESCRIPTIONS 0]^ NEW HYMENOPTERA. 425 
The apical teeth appear to be more numerous than usual • the large 
apical foveae are few in number and are mixed up with the numer- 
ous smaller punctures which beset the whole of the broad apical 
margin ; the mesopleurse are clearly separated from the pro- and meta- 
pleurse ; on the apex is a wide furrow, which ends below in a rounded 
projection. 
The genus Euchroeus is of small extent and has not hitherto been 
recorded from India. It is easily known by the apex of the abdomen 
being beset all over with numerous large and small teeth and not 
with a few large ones as in Chrysis. This form of the apex is shown by 
Du Buysson in Joum. Bomb., Nat. Hist. Soc, X., PI, I., f. 13. The 
apex of the present species differs from that of the European species 
there figured in having a gradually rounded slope, the centre not being 
so much raised and separated from the base and apex. 
ICHNEUMONID^. 
Pimplides. 
Gltpta nursei, sp. nov. 
Nigra, pedibus anterioribus flavis, posticis fascis, coxis rufis ; alia 
hyalinis, nervis stigmateque nigris. $. 
Long : 8-9 m.m. 
Habitat: Simla. 
Antenofe entirely black, thickly covered with a black microscopic pile. 
Face closely and strongly punctured and covered with silvery pubes- 
cence ; the clypeus and mandibles yellow and smooth ; the mandibular 
teeth blackish ; the palpi rafo-testaceous ; the front and vertex, if 
anything, more strongly, but not quite so closely, punctured as 
the face. Thorax shining ; above covered with silvery pubescence ; 
the mesonotum is closely and uniformly punctured ; the scutellum 
is closely punctured ; its lateral slope is irregularly striated ; the 
lateral depression is closely, obliquely, irregularly striated. Post- 
SGutellum closely punctured. Median segment areolated all over ; 
in the centre is an elongated area reaching to the apical slope, 
which is narrowed on the basal and longer part — the part behind 
the transverse keel ; — the apical slope is bounded above by a 
stout keel ; there is a longitudinal keel on the outer side, so that there is 
thus a larger central and two smaller lateral arese ; there are two large 
lateral areas on the basal slope ; the basal one being somewhat the 
larger and there is a large spiracular area. The four front legs are 
3 
426 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIV, 
lemon-yellow ; the hinder pair fuscous, with the coxse and trochan- 
ters rufous. Wings clear hyaline, nervures and stigma black. Abdomen 
black ; the ventral surface pale ; the dorsal segments are closely 
punctured and covered with a white pubescence ; the oblique depres- 
sions are deep • there are two longitudinal keels on the base of the 
petiole and one short central one on the apex. The tegulae and the 
part of the pronotum next to them are yellow. 
LiSSONOTA APIClPBNNISj sp. nov. 
Nigra, capite thoraceque flavo maculatis ; abdomine rafo, nigro- 
lineato; pedibus rufis, nigro lineato ; coxis flavis; alis hyaliuis, apice 
fusco-maculato. $ . 
Long : 10 m.m., terebra 9-10 m.m. 
Habitat: Simla. 
Antennse black ; the scape yellow, the flagellum brownish beneath. 
Head black; the face, clypeus, the orbits all round, mandibles and 
palpi, lemon-yellow • the face is closely punctured and covered with a 
stout, white pubescence ; the clypeus smooth ; the front and vertex 
closely and distinctly punctured. Mandibular teeth black. Thorax 
black; a large triangular mark on the side of the prothorax — the 
narrow end on the base, — the base of the propleurge, the tegulae, the 
scutellum, except a triangular black mark on the base, the post-scutel- 
'lum and the tubercles, lemon-yellow. The thorax is closely and 
uniformly punctured all over; there are no keels on the median 
segment. Legs testaceous ; the coxse and trochanters lemon-yellow, 
the middle coxse behind, the posterior before and behind, the basal 
j oint of the fore trochanters above, the base of the four anterior entirely 
and a line on the upper side of the four front femora, black. Wings 
hyaline ; the apex between the radial and cubital nervures smoky ; the 
stigma fuscous, the nervures darker in tint ; the areolet has a long 
pedicle, it being not much shorter than the lower divisions ; the outer 
branch is largely bullated ; the recurrent nervure is received shortly 
behind it. Abdomen rufous, the base and apex of the petiole and the 
apex of the second and third segments lemon-yellow. 
LiSSONOTA ZANTHORIA, sp» noV. 
Flava, supra nigro-maculata ; pedibus pallide fulvis, coxis trochan- 
teribusque flavis ; alis hyalinis, ner vis stigmateque nigris. $. 
Long : 10 m.m. 
Habitat : Deesa. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW HYMENOPTERA. 427 
Scape of antennae black, yellowish below ; the flagellum brownish, 
black above. Head lemon-yellow ; the ocellar region and the central 
part of the occiput, black. Face closely punctured and covered with 
white hair ; the clypeus smooth, except-for a few punctures on the top. 
Mandibular teeth black. There is an irregular mark on the base of 
the mesonotum, an elongated mark — roundly narrowed towards the 
base, the apex roundly incised — the sides and apex and two curved 
marks, on the base of the median segment, extending from the 
middle of the base to the spiracles, black. The mesonotum and the 
scutellam are uniformly punctured allover ; the median segment is 
more closely and strongly punctured; there is a transverse keel 
above the apical slope. The pleurse are punctured like the upper 
surface. Legs obscure fulvous, the posterior darker in tint ; the 
basal joint of the hinder trochanters black ; the hinder tarsi are 
infuscated. On the abdomen the middle of the petiole is broadly, — the 
band incised in the middle behind — the middle of the second, third 
and fourth segments broadly and the base of the others broadly, 
black. 
The size and shapes of the black marks on the thorax vary. 
LiSSONOTA CLAEIPENNIS, sp. nov. 
Flava, capite thoraceque nigro maculatis ; abdomine flavo lineato, 
apice rufo ; pedibus flavis, femoribus posticis fulvis ; alis hyalinis, 
stigmate fusco. ^. 
£,ong : 9 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Scape of antennse black, yellow below ; the flagellum brownish, 
darker above. Head black ; the face, oral region, the inner orbits — 
broadly below — and the outer still more broadly, lemon-yellow. The 
face is closely, but not strongly, punctured. Mesonotum black, except 
for a yellow line bordering the central region ; the line is triangularly 
dilated at the base. 
Scutellum yellow, the sides and base irregularly bordered with 
black. The median segment has two large marks, extending from the 
base to shortly beyond the middle, and irregularly narrowed at the 
apex and with an irregular yellow mark in the centre near the base; 
the apex is narrowly black. The whole thorax is closely and distinctly 
punctured. Legs yellow ; the four anterior trochanters and femora 
428 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL BISTORT SOCIETY, Vol. XIY. 
lined with black above • the hinder legs obscure fulvous ; the innerside 
of the coxae, and the basal joint of the trochanters black ; the apex of 
the tarsi infuscated. Wings clear hyaline, the areolet appendiculated ; 
the pedicle longer than the lower branches. Abdomen black above, 
the base of the petiole, its apex more narrowly, and the apices of the 
second, third and fourth segments, yellow ; the apex of the fourth and 
the following segments entirely rufous, with their apices narrowly 
lined with yellow. 
Tryplionides. 
Lapaphbas, gen. nov. 
Areolet 4-angled, longish, oblique, narrow ; the first transverse cubi- 
tal nervure is short, straight and oblique ; the second is more than 
twice t.he length of the first and is roundly curved ; the two are united 
at the base and at the apex ; the second forms a rounded curve with 
the cubitus ; the recurrent nervure is at the apex of the areolet almost 
touching the apical abscissa of the cubitus ; the areolet is nearly three 
times longer than broad. Radial cellule wide ; the basal abscissa of the 
radius is straight and oblique ; the apical is longer and roundly curved. 
Antennae stout, not tapering towards the apex ; the third and fourth joints 
are equal in length ; the scape is short, scarcely twice the length of the 
second. Head not quite so wide as the thorax ; the face projects in the 
centre, the sides being oblique ; the clypeus is roundly convex, separa- 
ted from the face, but not by a distinct furrow ; its apex is rounded. 
Mandibles brought gradually to a point to the apex, which is rounded 
and without a subapical tooth. Eyes large, parallel, separated by a 
short space from the base of the mandibles. Occiput roundly, but not 
deeply, incised. Scutellum convex, but not raised above the meso- 
notum. Median segment with a gradually rounded slope to the apex ; 
the middle with a longitudinal keel which bifurcates at the apex ; the 
spiracles are small, circular. Legs of normal size ; the four hinder 
tibiae armed with two spurs ; the claws are simple. Abdomen roundly 
convex above, not compressed laterally ; the petiole becomes gradually 
wider towards the apex ; the spiracles are placed shortly behind the 
middle ; the apical segment is bluntly rounded. 
Belongs to the Tryphonides. The distinctive characters are the tmi- 
dentate mandibles ; the oblique narrow longish areolet, the longitudinal 
keel on the median segment, bifurcating at the apex, and the rather 
short, wide, radial oellale with its straight, oblique abscissa, of th© 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW EYMENOPTERA. 429 
radius. The transverse basal nervure is interstitial, above it is not 
united to the stigma ; the cubitus has a broad, rounded curve ; the ocelli 
are large ; the head is well developed behind the eyes, but does not 
project there ; the tarsi are spinose. 
Lapaphras NiaRicEPS, sp, nov. 
Lutea, capite, antennis palpisque nigris ; tarsis nigro maculatis j alis 
fuscis, nervis stigmateque nigris. 9 et <J. 
Long : 6-7 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennae black, thickly covered with a microscopic pile ; the scape 
smooth and shining. Head shining, the face aciculated ; the clypeus is 
more shining than the face ; its apex bears a row of distinct punctures ; 
the palpi dark-fuscous. Thorax smooth and shining ; the pleurae 
lighter in tint than the mesonotum which, as is also the metanotum, 
is thickly covered with fulvous pubescence. Legs coloured like the 
thorax ; the apex of the four hinder tibiae and of the joints of the four 
hinder tarsi, black. Abdomen smooth and shining, thickly covered 
with fulvous pubescence ; the extreme base of the petiole is trian- 
gularly depressed at the base. 
NoTHAiMA, gen, nov. 
Areolet open. Face swollen as in ExocJius. Clypeus obliquely de- 
pressed, rounded above, clearly separated from the face and forming an 
angle with the mandibles. Apex of the mandibles curved inwardly 
and having two unequal teeth, the upper being the larger. Parapsidal 
furrows distinct. Scutellum roundly convex, not much raised above 
the level of the mesonotum. Median segment with two stout keels 
down the centre, and a more slender one on either side of the spiracles ; 
there are no transverse keels ; the spiracles oval. Legs stout, the 
femora thickened ; there are two spurs on all the legs ; the claws are 
long, curved and simple. Petiole flat, becoming gradually wider to 
the apex, which is about four times wider than the base ; the spiracles 
are placed near the apex of the basal third ; there are no longitudinal 
keels on it, or on the second segment. 
The basal joints of the flagellum are equal in length ; the antenna 
are stout and are placed well up on the head ; the occiput is roundly 
incised, in the middle it is excavated above ; the ocelli are placed near 
the edge and are large. 
430 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIV. 
Allied, by the form of the head, to Exochus ; is easily known from it 
by the depressed clypeus, by the curved apex of the mandibles and by 
the two longitudinal keels on the median segment. 
NOTHAIMA BICAEINATA, sp. nov, (PI. fig. 10.) 
Nigra, pedibus anterioribus rufo-testaceis, coxis nigris ; alls hyalinis, 
nervis stigmateque nigris. <J. 
Long : 10 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennae black, stout, the flagellum dark-brownish beneath. Tlie 
face is closely and strongly punctured ; the obliquely depressed clypeu3 
is smooth and shining. Mandibles black ; the middle with an oblique 
testaceous mark ; the palpi yellowish-testaceous. Thorax entirely 
black ; the mesonotum is thickly covered with short fuscous pubes- 
cence ; the parapsidal furrows are deep, the middle lobe being thus 
clearly separated. The basal half of the scutellum bears scattered, 
punctures. Median segment irregularly rugosely punctured ; there ia 
one central area which reaches to the apex of the segment, and is 
bounded by two straight keels ; its basal half is smooth ; the apical 
bears some stout, irregular transverse keels ; there is a narrow keel on 
either side of the spiracles. Mesopleurse punctured, but not very closely 
or strongly ; the apex of the meta-closely, finely, obliquely striated. 
The four hinder legs are dark, rufo-testaceous, the cosse black ; the 
hinder legs are black, the femora and tibiae with a slight fuscous or 
brownish tinge ; the femora are slightly, broadly hollowed on the inner 
side. Wings clear hyaline ; the nervures and stigma black ; the 
areolet is completely open. Abdomen black ; the basal three ventral 
segments obscure testaceous ; the petiole is irregularly, coarsely, closely 
shagreened and striated, except at the apex, where it is smooth and 
shining ; the base in the middle is smooth, depressed and furrowed in 
the centre from near the base. 
Exochus appendiculatus, sp. nov. 
Niger, pedibus flavis, femoribus late fulvis, coxis posfcicis late nigris ; 
alls hyalinis, nervis stigmateque nigris. $ . 
Long : fere 7 m.m. 
BLabitat : Deesa. 
The flagellum is brownish, the scape yellowish beneath. Face 
regularly and closely punctured and thickly covered with longish white 
hair ; the front is smooth, the vertex is sparsely punctared. Mandibles 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW EYMENOPTERA. 431 
sparsely punctured ; the apex brownish. Thorax smooth and shining ; 
the mesonotum thickly covered with fuscous pubescence ; the scutellum 
is sparsely punctured ; the post-scutellum has a round fovea on either 
side at the base. Median segment regularly areolated ; the central 
area is large and extends to the base ; the basal half of the keels 
roundly curved ; the narrowed basal part is as long as the apical. 
Legs yellow, the femora and coxse are fulvous for the greater part ; 
the basal half of the hinder coxae is black ; the hinder tarsi fuscous. 
Wings clear hyaline ; the costa and stigma are darker fuscous ; the 
areolet is appendiculated, the cellule is small, oblique ; the outer 
nervure is faint. Abdomen smooth and shining ; the petiole is closely 
punctured to near the apex ; the keels reach to near the middle. 
ExocHUS XANTHOPus, sp. nov. 
Niger, facie, linea pronoti late, tegulis, scutello, post-scutello macu- 
laque, 9 . 
Long : 5 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennae black ; the scape yellowish beneath. Head black ; the face, 
oral region, the inner orbits to near the top and a somewhat triangular 
mark on the hinder, inner edge of the eyes, lemoii-yellow. Face 
strongly and distinctly punctured and covered with white pubescence ; 
the front and vertex smooth and shining. Mandibles and palpi yellow ; 
mandibular teeth black. Thorax black, smooth and shining ; the edge 
of the pronotum broadly — more broadly at the apex than at the base, — 
the tegulse, scutellum, the apical half of the post-scutellum, and a large 
mark on the mesopleurse in the middle at the base, lemon-yellow. The 
supramedian area is continued to the base of the segment ; its basal part 
is obliquely narrowed ; the other arese are clearly defined. Legs clear 
lemon-yellow, the hinder coxse black. Abdomen smooth and shining ; 
the basal part of the petiole bears two stout keels. 
ExOCHUS CURVICARINATDS, sp, noV. 
Niger, scutello flavo-lineato ; pedibus flavis, coxis trochanteribusque 
nigris ; alis hyalinis, nervis stigmateque nigris. $ . 
Long : 6 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennae black ; the scape yellow beneath. Head black ; the face and 
oral region, the inner orbits to near the lower ocelli and a small oblique 
conical mark near the top of the eyes on the innerside, lemon-yellow. 
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Face closely and distinctly punctured and thickly covered with short 
white pubescence. Front and vertex smooth and shining. Mandibles 
and palpi lemon-yellow ; the mandibular teeth black. On the thorax 
the edge of the pronotum, the tegulse, a line round the sides and apex 
of the SGUtellum and the apex of the post-scutellum are lemon-yellow. 
Thorax smooth and shining ; the keels on the median segment are 
not very stout ; the central area is large, wide ; the basal keels are 
roundly curved. Legs lemon-yellow ; the hinder coxse and trochanters 
black. Wings clear hyaline ; the stigma and nervures black ; the 
transverse cubital nervure is short ; the part of the cubitus between 
it and the recurrent nervure is double its own length. Abdomen 
smooth and shining ; the keels on the base of the petiole are short. 
This is a smaller species than E. zanthopus, and may be known from 
it by the scutellum being only lined along the edges with yellow, and by 
the keels bounding the central area of the median segment being roundly 
curved at the base, not straight and oblique. 
EXOCHUS EBYTHROPUS, sp. TIOV. 
Niger, pedibus rufis ; alls hyalinis, nervis stigmateque nigris. 
Long : 7 m.m. $ . 
Habitat • Simla. 
, Antennae black ; the scape rufous beneath. Face closely and dis- 
tinctly punctured, covered with a depressed pale pile ; the clypeus 
smooth, sparsely punctured above ; the front and vertex are more 
sparsely punctured than the face ; the front bears a narrow longitudinal 
furrow. Immediately below the antennas is a transverse rufous band ; 
the mandibles are rufous, except at the apex ; the palpi testaceous. 
Thorax smooth and shining ; the mesonotum is thickly covered with 
pale-fuscous pubescence. The areae on the median segment are clearly 
defined by stout keels ; the supramedian is three times as long as 
broad ; it is narrowed and rounded at the base, transverse at the apex. 
Legs entirely rufous; the anterior of a slightly paler, more yellowish 
tinge. Wings clear hyaline ; the stigma and nervures black ; the 
areolet obsolete ; the apical nervures in the hind wings are faint, almost 
obsolete. 
BRACONID^. 
Bracon punjabensis, sp. nov. 
Ferrugineo; .antennis tibiis tarsisque posterioribus nigris; alia 
famatis, stigmate nigro, basi rufo. 9 . 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW BYMENOPTERA. 433^ 
Long I 9-10, terebra 7 m.m. 
Habitat : Ferozepore. 
Autennse black ; the scape covered with black hairs ; the flagellum 
with a pale dowD. Head smooth and shining ; the face and oral region 
closely and distinctly, but not strongly, punctured, and sparsely covered 
with pale, longish hairs ; there is a narrow longitudinal furrow in the 
front. Thorax smooth and shining, above sparsely covered with short 
pale hairs ; the oblique furrow on the base of the mesopleurge is smooth 
and extends near to the middle ; the furrow on the meta-pleura is wide 
and deep at the base and becomes gradually narrowed. Wings uniformly 
dark-fuscous, except for a large oblique cloud in the first cubital cellule, 
this cloud being prolonged obliquely into the disooidal cellule where it 
extends into the middle, the basal half being much wider ; the second 
transverse cubital nervure is surrounded by hyaline bands ; the stigma 
is rufous to slightly beyond the middle. The apical central lobe of the 
petiole is stoutly, irregularly, longitudinally striolated ; the outer furrow 
bifurcates at the apex, the outer fork being wider and deeper. The 
second segment is coarsely, irregularly, rugosely punctured ; the basal 
part in the middle is irregularly, longitudinally striolated ; the 
lateral depressions on it are striated at the bottom ; the secucuriform 
articulatfon is deep, wide, is widened at the sides and is stoutly, longi- 
tudinally striated ; the apex of the segment is irregularly striated in 
the middle ; the other segments are closely punctured ; the fourth and 
fifth have oblique depressions on the sides and striated transverse furrows 
at the apices. Legs coloured like the body ; the front tibiae behind 
and the four hinder tibise and tarsi fuscous-black. 
Bracon dees^, sp. nov. (PI. fig. 11. wing.) 
Luteus, antennis nigris, abdomine nigromaculato ; alis flavis, apice 
maculisque duobus fuscis. (J et $ . 
Long i 12, terebra 15 m.m. 
Habitat : Deesa. 
Antennae black, narrowed towards the apex ; the scape covered with 
blackish hair. Head smooth and shining ; the face covered with long 
fuscous hair ; the clypeal depression deep, smooth and shining. Man- 
dibles with the apical half deep-black. The ocelli are bounded behind 
by two deep, curved furrows ; in front of them is a triangular depres- 
sion. Thorax smooth and shining ; there is an oblique furrow on the 
base of the raesopleur® at the base above. Wings yellowish-hyaline ; 
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there is a fusoous cloud between the base of the stigma and the transverse 
basal nervure and extending to the opposite side of the wing ; a cloud 
at the apex of the stigma extending to shortly beyond the middle of 
the cubital cellule ; the apex of the wing to near the second transverse 
cubital nervure and on the lower side extended backwards to beyond 
the middle of the second cubital cellule. The apex of the hinder wing 
and its lower side to the middle where it projects obliquely upwards 
along the cubital nervure, smoky. Legs luteous ; the apices of the 
tarsi blackish. Abdomen luteous, more or less suffused with black; 
the basal three segments irregularly longitudinally striated, the strise 
in places forming reticulations ; the three transverse furrows are 
deep and closely, stoutly, longitudinally striated ; there is no keel on 
the second segment ; the smooth basal plate is small, indistinct and 
triangular. 
The $ is similar ; the clouds in the wings are more suffused ; the 
apex of the abdomen is black ; the antennae are longer than the 
body. 
DiTHERUS, gen. nov. 
Eyes hairy. Wings with three cubital cellules ; the apical abscissa 
of the radius faint and curved upwards at the base ; the base of the 
cubitus and the upper part of the recurrent nervure are interrupted, 
80 that the first cubital, the first discoidal and first posterior cellules 
are not separated completely ; the recurrent nervure is received in the 
first cubital cellule and at a distance from the first transverse cubital 
nervure ; the transverse median discoidal is received shortly behind the 
middle of the first discoidal cellule ; the second discoidal cellule is open 
at the apex. Face with a sharp keel down the middle, the clypeua 
is separated from the face, its apex rounded. The mandibles end in a 
long sharp tooth. Occiput not distinctly margined ; broadly, roundly 
incised. Parapsidal furrows distinct, deep. Scutellum rounded, not 
raised above the mesonotum. Median segment areolated. Legs stout, 
the hinder coxse large ; the metatarsus large ; thickened. 
The head is well-developed behind the eyes, the part between them 
and the ocelli is depressed ; the parapsidal furrows are deep ; the 
petiole is broad at the base, becoming gradually wider towards the 
apex ; there is a distinct suturiform articulation ; the cubitus origi- 
nates from shortly above the middle of the transverse basal nervure, the 
first discoidal cellule being thus smaller than usual and not so much 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW HYMENOPTERA. 435 
narrowed at the apex compared to the base ; the transverse median 
aervure is received near the apex of the basal third of the cellule ; 
the anal cellule is open. In the hind wings only the subcostal, the 
prsebrachial and the transverse prsebrachial nervures are thick, black 
and distinct, the others being very faint or obsolete. In the fore- 
wings the axillary cellule is not divided. The metacarpus is thickened 
beyond the stigma ; the radial cellule is long and narrow, extending 
to the apex of the wing ; the middle ocellus is bordered by furrows. 
Belongs to Wesmail's division, Polymorphic but does not fit very 
well into any of the tribes into which that group is divided. Charac- 
teristic are the hairy eyes, the long, narrow radial cellule, the radius 
curved upwards and the keels on the metanotum. 
DiTHEKUS RUFICOLLIS, sp. nov. (PI. fig. 14.) 
Niger, pronoto mesonotoque rufis ; alis hyalinis, apice fumato • 
nervis stigmateque nigris ; capite thoraceque dense albo pilosis. $ . 
Long : 6-7 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennae black ; the scape closely punctured and thickly covered 
with short black hair. Head smooth, shining and thickly covered 
with long white hair ; the clypeus is less thickly pilose. Mandibles 
dark-rufous before the apex ; the palpi black. The upper part of the 
mesopleurse, the pronotum and mesonotum, rufous. Mesonotum thickly 
covered with short white hair ; smooth, the parapsidal furrows crenu- 
lated. The base and sides of the scutellum are dark-rufous j the lateral 
farrows are deep and crenulated. Median segment closely punctured ; 
in the centre is a large area, which is sharply pointed at the top and 
bottom ; the sides on the upper and lower half straight, oblique ; on 
the side of this at the base is another area, somewhat triangular in 
shape, the broad end being at the base. Pro- and meso-pleurse smooth 
and shining ; the base of the metapleurse to the furrow smooth ; the rest 
rugosely punctured. Legs thickly covered with white hair ; the apex 
of the fore femora, the extreme base of the hinder and the fore tibiae 
and tarsi rufo-testaceous. Wings hyaline, the apex from shortly 
behind the second transverse cubital nervure smoky, with a slight 
violaceous tinge ; the second transverse cubital nervure is largely 
bullated, as is also the cubitus immediately above it ; the apical 
nervures are pale, as are also the nervures in the hind wings. Abdo- 
men smooth and shining ; the apex densely pilose ; the furrows along 
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the sides of the petiole are wide and deep ; the sutnriform articulation 
is smooth and deep ; on either side behind it is a shallow, wide, oblique 
furrow. 
Pycnobeacon, gen. nov. 
Eyes hairy. Head and wings as in Bracon, Abdomen ovate, the 
petiole broad, clearly separated from, and much narrower than, the 
second segment, which is enormously large, much larger than all the 
rest of the abdomen together ; it is rounded and narrowed at the base, 
transverse at the apex ; the suturiform articulation is distinct and is 
placed shortly beyond the middle; the sides of the third and fourth 
segments project broadly ; the fifth and sixth segments are smooth and 
shining ; the ovipositor is nearly as long as the abdomen. 
The antennae have about 40 joints and are placed well up on the 
head, which is obliquely narrowed behind the e5'es • the stigma is 
large ; the radial cellule is distinctly bordered in front ; the posterior 
nervure originates from near the middle of the nervure ; the median 
cellule in the hind wings is large and clearly limited ; the transverse 
discoidal nervure is interstitial. The mandibles become gradually 
narrowed to the apex ; the palpi are longish ; the metathoracic spira- 
cles are placed beyond the middle, are distinct and oval. 
The form of the mouth refers this genus to the Cyclostomi. The 
form of the abdomen gives it the appearance of one of the Cryptogastres 
to which, however, it has no relationship otherwise. The abdominal 
form is not unlike what we find in some species of Spinaria. Charac- 
teristic are the hairy eyes, a feature not known to occur with any 
genus of the Cyclostomi^ but which is found in Chelonus. 
PyCNOBR^ON NIGER, sp. nOV. (PI. fig. 13.) 
Niger, abdomine rugoso, alis fusco-hyalinis, nervis stigmateque 
nigris. 9. 
Long : 5, terebra fere 2 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennae 40-jointed, moderately stout, not tapering much towards 
the apex, slightly longer than the body ; the scape smooth, shining 
and covered with short pubescence. Front and vertex smooth and 
shining and covered with short pale pubescence ; the face coarsely aci- 
culated, opaque, tuberculated in the middle below and covered with 
short pubescence, and some long hairs. Clypeus smooth, shining and 
bare. Mandibles black, shining, dull piceous before the apex. Palps 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW HYMENOPTERA. 437 
pale, black at the base. Thorax smooth and shining ; the median 
segment thickly covered with long fuscous hairs ; the depression 
at the base of the seutellum is deep and is stoutly erenulated. 
Wings hyaline, with a slight, but distinct, fuscous tinge ; the nervures 
and stigma black. Legs black, thickly covered with a white pubes- 
cence, the cos8e with white hair. Abdomen ovate, the petiole depressed 
at the base ; the apex raised, its base smooth and with an oblique 
slope ; the apex coarsely reticulated ; the second and third segments are 
closely, coarsely, longitudinally punctured ; the base of the second 
segment is reticulated in the middle, where there is a longitudinal keel, 
which is widened at the base, the widened part becoming gradually 
narrowed and is hollowed ; the suturiform articulation is wide and 
deep, striated, bifurcated at the sides, the hinder fork being the shorter. 
Ohs. — I have above compared this genus to Spinaria^ and undoubted- 
ly it is closely related to that genus as I have understood it when I 
described two Indian species, that is to say, it is to be referred to the 
Cydostomi, but, according to some authors, Spinaria is related to the 
Cryptogastres — Chelonus, &c., Brulle (Hymen., iv., 512), who described 
the genus for the first time, placed it in the Cryptogastres^ in which he 
is followed by Marshall (Species I., Hym., iv., p. 307), who says that 
there are " parmi les Cryptogastres exotiques des genres comme Fornicia 
et Spinaria que offrent une certaine ressemblance avec les Cydostomes.''^ 
So far as the Indian species known to me are concerned they must be 
referred to the Cydostomes, inasmuch as they have the mouth widely 
and roundly incised as in Bracon and not transverse and entire as in 
Chelonus^ &c. The form of the head, thorax and wings in our Indian 
species is exactly as it is with the Cydostomi ; the form of the abdo- 
men has a certain resemblance to what we find with some of the 
Cryptogastres, but that, however, is hardly sufficient to warrant the 
genus being placed among them, considering how close is the agree- 
ment with Bracon in other respects. It is somewhat remarkable that 
neither Brulle {I.e.), Westwood, in his monograph of the genus (Tijd- 
sehr. voor Entomologie, 1882) nor any other author make any men- 
tion of the form of the mouth. We must, therefore, either assume 
that they have overlooked the fact that the species described by them 
have the oral structure of Bracon^ or, if they really have the clypeus 
of Chelonus, then the species I have described from India must be 
referred to a new genus. 
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CHALCIDID^. 
Spilochalcis siml^nsis, sp. nov. 
Nigra, thorace octo-flavo-maculatOj medio mesonoti reticulato ; alis 
fere hyalinis. $ . 
Long : 6 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennae stout, covered closely with a short white pubeacenoe ; 
the under side of the flagellum brownish-red ; the last three joints 
become gradually narrowed towards the apex. Head black ; the inner 
orbits broadly — broadest in the middle ; the outer orbits narrowly above, 
the lower part of the antennee keel and the upper side and the apex of the 
mandibles, yellow. Front and vertex closely and strongly punctured ; 
the part on either side of the ocelli bearing some large, clearly separated, 
punctures ; the frontal depression finely and closely transversely striated. 
The face is bluntly keeled in the centre, the keel being closely trans- 
versely striated ; the rest is punctured, the punctures being large, 
moderately deep and broader than long. On the thorax there are two 
marks, broader than long, on the pronotum, two oblique lines on the 
sides of the middle lobe of the mesonotum, a shorter line, narrowed 
towards the apex, opposite the tegulse, and the sides of the scutellum 
broadly yellow. Pronotum closely and uniformly punctured ; the meso- 
notum is not quite so closely and regularly punctured, the punctures being 
not so closely together, especially on the middle lobe. Scutellum 
rugosely punctured, and somewhat depressed in the middle ; the apex 
bears stout, clearly separated, longitudinal keels. Metanotum stoutly, 
irregularly reticulated. Propleurae rugosely punctured above, below 
closely aciculated, and bearing a few irregular striae. The base of the 
mesopleurse is smooth and shining ; the rest irregularly rugose above, 
the middle with a few stout striae. Metapleurse coarsely rugosely 
punctured. Mesosternum rugosely punctured. Wings hyaline ; their 
middle and apex slightly, but distinctly, smoky ; the costa and nervures 
are black. The four front knees, tibiae and tarsi are yellowish-testa- 
ceous ; the hinder trochanters ; the basal fifth of the hinder coxae on the 
sides and above, the apex above and a mark on the sides near the apex 
on the lower side — this mark being dilated on the lower side — yellow. 
The hinder coxae are as long as the femora and are thickly covered 
with white hair ; the under side of the femora is minutely and regularly 
toothed; the hinder tibiae yellow, broadly marked at the base and 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW EYMENOPTERA. 439 
middle with black ; the tarsi yellow. Abdomen smooth and shining ; 
the petiole is smooth and is half the length of the second segment. 
Halticella oknatipennis, sp. nov. 
Nigra, basi flagello antennarum pedibusque anterioribus rufis ; alis 
hyalinis, fusco-bifasciatis. 9 . 
Long : 0-6 m.m. 
Habitat : Deesa. 
The scape of the antennae reaches to the top of the head, has a slight 
curve and is somewhat dilated on the top ; it is more or less rufo-testa- 
ceous, as is also the base of the flagellum. The head is closely covered 
with silvery pubescence, closely rugosely punctured, except on the 
frontal depression, which is smooth in the centre, or at least only acicu- 
lated ; the eyes on the inner side are bordered by a distinct keel ; the 
antennal tubercles are smooth and shining. Thorax entirely black, 
closely and regularly punctured ; the scutellum ends in two bluntly 
pointed teeth. Median segment opaque, irregularly longitudinally 
keeled ; the two central keels are distinct and are united at top and 
bottom, forming thus an enclosed area, which is widest below. Pleurae 
closely and distinctly punctured ; the basal third of the mesopleurse is 
strongly and regularly obliquely striated. Legs black ; the four ante- 
rior legs, the hinder trochanters and the base of the hinder femora, 
rufous ; the hinder femora bear no teeth, but have two curves in the 
middle; the part separating them being rounded and the basal curve is 
the larger ; the apex of the hinder tibise is roundly depressed or incised 
on the outside. Wings hyaline ; there is a dark cloud at the stigmal 
region and a larger, lighter coloured one beyond it, the space separat- 
ing the two being milky-white. The sides of the abdomen, on the 
lower part, are more or less rufous. 
Is referable apparently to Kirby's " genus " Antrocephalusj which 
was founded on two Bombay species described by Walker {H, fuscicor- 
nis and H. diver sicornis). 
TENTHREDINID^. 
Fethalia, gen, nov. 
Wings with 2 radial and 4 cubital cellules ; lanceolate cellule 
divided by a short perpendicular nervure. Antennse short, thickened to- 
wards the apex ; the third joint distinctly longer than the fourth. Head 
largely developed behind and bulging out roundly beyond them ; the 
occiput sharply margined on the top. Clypous widely and roundly 
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incised at the apex. Labrum large, if anything, longer than the cly- 
peus ; ita apex rounded. Mandibles roundly and widely incised at the 
base on the inner side ; there is a large apical, a smaller sub-apical, and 
behind that a small rounded tubercle-like tooth. Front and vertex 
without furrows ; the front raised broadly in the middle ; the raised 
part is bounded laterally by a smooth furrow. Scutellum pyramidal, 
ending above in a distinct smooth point, which has a perpendicular 
slope behind. Sternum separated from the pleurse by a wide, deep 
triangular furrow. Legs stout ; the claws bifid. Abdomen not much 
longer than the thorax. 
The occiput is roundly incised ; the transverse median nervure ia 
received half way between the middle and the base of the cellule ; 
the humeral nervure is curved upwards near the base; in the hind 
wings the humeral nervure is received shortly behind the transverse 
one or is interstitial ; the eyes slightly converge below and hardly 
reach to the top of the clypeus and are clearly separated from the base 
of the mandibles ; the parapsidal furrows are distinct, but neither 
wide nor deep ; the middle lobe is not raised and is furrowed in the 
middle ; the tarsal patellae are distinct; there is no " blotch" on the 
abdomen. 
Belongs to the Tenthredina. 
Fethalia nigka, sp. nov. 
Nigra, clypeo, labro, basique mandibularum flavis ; alis fasco-viola- 
ceis, nervis stigmateque nigris. $ . 
Long : 12 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennse not much longer than the head and thorax united, stout ; if 
anything, becoming thicker towards the apex ; the apical joints fuscous 
beneath ; the last distinctly shorter than the preceding. Head closely 
and distinctly punctured ; the vertex more coarsely than the rest. 
Clypeus and labrum smooth ; the latter fringed with long pale hair. 
Mandibles black ; the base on the upper half above and the upper side 
of the lower side broadly pale-yellow ; behind the teeth is a rufous 
band. Palpi black. Thorax entirely black ; opaque, closely punctured, 
all over ; the pyramidal scutellum is more strongly and less closely 
punctured ; its top smooth and shining. Legs : the four front tibijE and 
tarsi pale-yellow below, the patellae are large. The anterior wings are 
fuscous-violaceous ; the costa, stigma and nervuresare black ; the second 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW BYMENOPTERA. i41 
and third cubital cellules are about equal in length ; the second receives 
the recurrent nervure shortly, but distinctly, behind the middle ; the 
second recurrent nervure is received near the apex of the basal fourth. 
Abdomen smooth and shining. 
LiTHRACiA, gen. nov. 
Wings with two radial and four cubital cellules. Lanceolate cellule 
contracted ; the basal cellule as long as the apical, the two being 
separated by slightly less than their own length. Hind wings with 
two cubital cellules. Antennse slender ; the third joint is slightly 
longer than the fourth. Clypeus roundly, but not very deeply, incised, 
Labrum large, somewhat longer than the olypeus. Eyes large, parallel, 
separated by a small space from the base of the mandibles. Scutellmn 
rather flat ; the lateral keels are broad and reach to the base of its 
apical third. Post-scutellum sharply keeled down the middle ; the 
keel is largest at the base. The hinder coxge are large and reach to the 
apex of the third segment ; the claws are bifid. 
This genus has the large hind coxae of Macrophya and PacliyprotasiSf 
but it differs from both in the form of the lanceolate cellule, in the 
form of the scutellum, and in the keeled post-scutellum. 
Lithe AciA flavipes, sp. nov. 
Nigra, pleuris subtus sternoque pallide flavis ; pedibus flavis, 
dimidio apioali femorum posticarum, tibiis tarsisque posticis fulvis j 
alls hyalinis, stigmate fusco. $ . 
Long : 7-8 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennae slender, black, the scape yellow beneath. Head black, 
the face, the lower inner orbits, the outer, on the lower half, the 
clypeus, labrum and mandibles pallid yellow ; the mandibular teeth 
piceous and black. Thorax black ; the tegulse, a small spot before 
them, the apex of the middle lobe of the mesonotum, the middle and 
apex of the scutellum, a line between the cenchri, a larger one in the 
centre behind them, the lower third of the meso and meta-pleurse and 
the mesosternum, pallid-yellow. Front and vertex closely rugose ; the 
frontal depression is raised in the middle. Mesonotum opaque, closely 
and minutely punctured. The four front legs are pallid-yellow, as are 
also the hinder coxae, trochanters and basal half of the femora ; the 
apical half of the femora, the tibiae and tarsi rufo-fulvous ; the apex of 
the tibiae black, as is also the apex of the last tarsal joint. The wing 
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have a slight falvous tinge ; the costa is white ; the greater part of 
the stigma dark-fuscous ; the nervures blackish ; the second transverse 
cubital nervure is largely bullated in the middle ; the third is pale 
throughout. Abdomen deep-black ; the second to sixth segments 
narrowly lined with white on the apex in the middle. 
Pachyprotasis doksivittata, sp. nov. 
Nigra, abdomine subtus flavo ; pedibus flavis, femoribns tibiisque 
supra tarsisque nigris ; alls hyalinis, stigmate testaceo. $ . 
Long : 10-11 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennae black. Head black ; the antennal region, the clypeus, 
labrum and the outer orbits from shortly above the middle of the eyes, 
whitish-yellow. Front and vertex coarsely shagreened, running into 
strialions on the sides ; the frontal area raised ; its middle depressed, 
the depression keeled in the centre, except at the base ; there is a 
black transverse line over the clypeus, which has the apex widely, 
deeply and roundly incised. Mandibles pallid yellow, the teeth black 
and piceous. Thorax black ; the edge of the pronotum, tegulse and 
the base of the mesopleurse, except at the top, whitish-yellow. Meso- 
notum minutely and closely punctured, the scutellum sparsely punc- 
tured. Pleurae closely and minutely punctured. The back of the 
abdomen is black except for an irregular fulvous mark in the middle ; 
its apex and the ventral surface yellow. Legs pale-yellow ; all the femora, 
the four front tibiae and tarsi are lined with black above ; the hinder 
tibiae black above and at the apex all round ; the posterior tarsi black ; 
the spurs are dark-testaceous. Wings hyaline, the anterior with a 
slight fulvous tinge ; the costa and stigma pale-testaceous, the nervures 
blackish. 
The $ has the breast and the lower half of the pleurae pale-yellow ; 
the black on the upper part of the mesopleur^ is triangularly dilated 
downwards, and in the centre above is a small oval yellow mark ; the 
apex of the propleurae is yellow except narrowly above. 
The size of the yellow mark on the back of the abdomen varies. 
PCECILOSOMA NIGRICEPS, sp. noV. 
Luteum, capite, mesosterno, antennis tibiis tarsisque nigris ; alis 
fusco-hyalinis, nervis stigmateque nigris. ? * 
Long : 8 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla, 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW HYMENOPTERA. 443 
Antennse longer than the abdomen, black, thickly covered with 
a microscopic down. Head black, the front and vertex shining ; 
smooth ; the front alutaceons, minutely punctured ; the frontal area 
depressed, its sides broadly raised ; the antennal keel distinct ; its sides 
oblique. Clypeus and labrum opaque, alutaceous, thickly covered with 
black pubescence ; the apex of the clypeus is almost transverse ; the 
mandibles piceous before the apex. Thorax and abdomen luteous, ex- 
cept the depressions at the sides of the scutellum, the post-scutellum 
and the space between the cenchri ; the sheaths of the ovipositor 
black. Legs luteous ; the four hinder tibise and tarsi entirely, the base 
of the fore femora, the apex of the tibiae and the tarsi, black. All the 
transverse cubital nervures are distinct ; the second cubital cellule is 
slightly, but distinctly, shorter than the third ; the first recurrent 
nervure is received near the apex of the basal third, the second in the 
middle of the cellule. The claws are bifid ; the outer division longer 
than the inner. 
Taxonus nigkitarsis, sp. nov. 
Niger, abdominis medio supra testaceo ; pedibus pallide testaceis, 
tarsis nigris ; alis hyalinis, nervis stigmateque uigris. $. 
Long : 5 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Head shining, black ; the clypeus white ; there are two short deep 
furrows behind the ocelli ; the ocellar region is raised ; the frontal area 
is not defined. Clypeus widely, but not deeply, incised ; the labrum is 
white ; the palpi of a darker white. Thorax smooth and shining, 
black except for a narrow white line on the pronotum. Legs white, 
with a slight testaceous tinge ; the tarsi and the extreme base and apex of 
the hinder tibise, black. Wings hyaline, highly iridescent ; the ner- 
vures and stigma black ; the second and third cubital cellules are about 
equal in length ; the first recurrent nervure is received at the base, 
quite close to the transverse cubital nervure ; the second shortly beyond 
the middle. Abdomen black ; the middle segments down the centre 
and the third and fourth at the apex and the basal half on the underside, 
testaceous. 
Taxonus melanopodus, sp. nov. 
Niger, tibiis farsisque anterioribus albis ; alis hyalinisj nervis 
stigmateque nigris. 9 et^. 
Long : 5 m.m. - ' 
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Habitat : Simla. 
Antennae black, stout, thickly covered with a short pile. Head 
smooth and shining ; there is a furrow in front of the ocellus ; there is 
a central fovea and one on either side of it over the antennae ; the apex 
of the clypeus is transverse ; the labrum is roundly convex, is rounded 
at the apex and is, as is also the clypeus, thickly covered with short, black 
pubescence. Apex of mandibles rufous. Thorax black, smooth and 
shining. Legs black ; the apex of the four anterior femora, their tibiae 
and tarsi white ; they are thickly covered with pale pubescence : the 
calcaria pale. The first recurrent nervure is received close to the apex 
of the basal third of the cellule ; the second shortly behind the middle. 
Taxonus labiatus, sp. nov. 
Niger, prothorace mesonotoque cum scutello rufis ; pedibus nigris, 
coxis, trochanteribns femoribusque postiois pallide flavis ; alls fere 
hjalinis, nervis stigmateque nigris. $ . 
Long : 8-9 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Head smooth and shining, thickly covered with short pubescence ; 
the clypeus deeply and roundly incised ; closely, but not very strongly, 
punctured ; the labrum is white. Thorax black, shining ; the prothorax, 
the mesonotum, the scutellum and the upper half of the mesopleurge 
rufous. The back of the abdomen has bluish-violet tinge. Legs 
black ; the apices of the four front cosse, the hinder coxae entirely, 
the hinder trochanters and the hinder femora, pallid-yellow. Wings 
hyaline ; the anterior with a fuscous tinge on the apical half ; the 
stigma and uervures are black. 
Taxonus foveifrons, sp. nov. 
Nigro-Goeruleo, trochanteribus albis ; alls fusco-hyalinis, nervis 
8tigmateque nigris. $ . 
Long : 7 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennae stout, of the length of the abdomen ; thickly covered with 
a black microscopic pile. Head smooth and shining, thickly covered with 
short pubescence • frontal area obsolete ; above the antennae is a deep 
fovea of oval shape. Clypeus deeply and roundly incised in the middle ; 
the labrum is pale. Thorax smooth and shining ; the parapsidal furrows 
are deep ; the middle lobe is distant from the scutellum ; its apex is 
sharply pointed ; the scutellum at the base is surrounded by a wide 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW HYMENOPTERA. 445 
furrow. Legs black ; the apex of the coxae, the trochanters, and the 
extreme base of the femora, white ; the apex of the anterior femora in 
front and of the tibia more broadly, white ; the anterior tibise and tarsi 
are fuscous in front. The second and third cubital cellules are almost 
equal in length ; the transverse basal nervure is received near the 
middle of the cellule, 
A larger species than T. melanopodus ; it has a more decided blue 
tint ; the transverse basal nervure is received near the middle, not near 
the apex, of the basal third ; the trochanters are white and the frontal 
fovea is larger, deeper and longer than broad. 
BUSARBIA ALBIPES, SJJ. nov. 
Nigra, nitida, pedibus, linea pronoti, tegulis scapoque antennarum 
albis • alis hyalinis, nervis stigmateque nigris. 9 . 
Long : 6 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennae black, the scape white, lined with black above. Head 
smooth and shining ; the furrows bounding the vertex are wide and 
deep ; the frontal area is depressed at the apex and bears a few longi- 
tudinal strise ; the frontal area is largely depressed in the middle — 
wide above, becoming narrowed below, — the apex of the clypeus and 
the labrum fuscous. Thorax smooth and shining ; the edge of the 
pronotum and the tegulse white. Legs clear white ; the apices of 
the tarsi infnscated. Wings hyaline, a very little infuscated in the 
middle ; the first transverse cubital nervure is largely buUated • the 
first recurrent nervure is received at less distance than its own lenoth 
from it. The back of the abdomen has a slight violaceous tinoe. 
This species comes near to B. viridipes, which differs from it in the 
clypeus, labrum and base of the mandibles being broadly white ; the 
pleurse are also marked with white, and the second cubital cellule 
receives the recurrent nervure near the apex, not at the base as with 
the present species. 
Selandeia trifoveata, sp. nov. 
Nigra, pedibus albis; apice tibiarum posticarum tarsisque postici» 
nigris ; alis hyalinis, stigmate nervisque nigris. $ . 
Long : 5 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennae not quite so long as the abdomen, distinctly tapering 
towards the apex, and densely covered with short, stiff pubescence ; the 
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third joint is about one-half longer than the fourth. Head smooth and 
shining ; frontal area is slightly raised, flat ; the apex obliquely 
narrowed at the sides ; there, is an irregular fovea on the top of the 
antennal tubercle and a larger deeper one on either side of it. Clypeus 
and labium thickly covered with blackish pubescence ; both are trans- 
verse at the apex. Mandibles broadly piceous before the apex ; the 
front and vertex are thickly covered with short pale pubescence. 
Thorax smooth and shining ; the meson otum thickly covered with 
black pubescence. Legs white ; the apex of the hinder tibise and the 
tarsi black. Wings hyaline ; the stigma and nervures black ; the first 
transverse cubital nervure is indicated by a hyaline line ; the second 
recurrent nervure is received near the apex of the basal fourth of the 
cellule ; the basal nervure is received near the base of the apical fourth 
of the cellule. 
MONOPHADNUS SIML^NSIS, s;?. UOV. 
Niger, prothorace, mesonoto cum scutello maculaque magna subalis 
ferrugineis ; alis violaceo-fusois, nervis stigmateque nigris. 9. 
Long : 10 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennse short, stout, almost bare. Head smooth and shining ; 
the ocelli bordered by furrows ; behind them are two deep curved 
furrows, which extend backwards to shortly behind the middle of the 
vertex ; the frontal fovea is large, deep, dilated broadly behind ; the 
dilated part with a narrow furrow in the middle. Clypeus sparsely 
punctured, convex and bordered above by a curved furrow. The pro- 
thorax, mesonotum, scutellum, tegulse and a large triangular mark on 
the base of the mesopleurge extending above to the apex, rufous. 
Wings smoky-fuscous, with a violaceous tinge ; the nervures and stigma 
black ; the third cubital cellule is more than double the length of the 
second ; the recurrent nervure is received close to its base. Abdomen 
smooth and shining, the edges of the segments narrowly at the apex, 
and the fifth and following broadly in the middle, whitish-yellow ; 
the ventral segments have their apices . narrowly whitish-yellow. 
Legs stout, covered with a stout, stiif pile ; the claws rufous. 
Athalia nigro-maculata, sp. nov. 
Lutea, antennis, capite metanotoque nigris ; abdominis dorso nigro 
maculate ; pedibus flavis ; femoribus posterioribus tibiis tarsisque nigro 
maculatis ; alis fusoo hyalinis, basi fiimatis ; nervis stigmateque nigris. 
? et $. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW H7MEN0PTERA. 447 
Long : 7-8 m.m . 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennse 10-jointed, the third twice the length of the fourth, 
the terminal joint twice the length of the preceding. Head 
black, below the antennas pale-luteous ; the front and vertex are 
without distinct furrows or depressions. Mandibles black at the 
apex. Thorax bright luteous ; the mesonotum thickly covered with 
depressed fulvous pubescence ; the depressions at the sides of the 
scutellnm, the metanotum, the base of the abdomen and six broad black 
marks on either side of the abdomen — two on each segment, except on 
the posterior two — black, the pleurse under the hinder wings being 
also broadly black. Wings smoky hyaline, paler towards the apex ; 
extreme base yellowish. The apices of the four posterior femora, the 
apices of all the tarsi and the apices of the tarsal joints, broadly black. 
The transverse cubital nervures are more widely separated than in 
A. antennata ; the second cubital cellule is not so much narrowed 
towards the apex and the wings are not so broadly yellow at the 
base. 
In the $ the black marks on the abdomen are much reduced in 
size. 
Athalia antennata, sp. nov, 
Lutea, flagello antennarum, capite metanotoque nigris, tibiis tarsisque 
nigro maculatis ; alls fusco-hyalinis, nervis stigmateque nigris. 9 . 
Long: 7-8 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennse 13-jointed, the apical two joints more closely amalgamated 
than the others ; the third joint narrower than, and twice the length of, 
the fourth. Head shining black, Inteous below the antennse ; a curved 
shallow furrow runs from the outerside of the hinder ocelli, and a 
shorter, oblique one from either side of the front ocellus, there being 
also a shallow fovea in front of it. Mandibles luteous, black at the 
apex ; the palpi yellow. The depressions at the sides of the scutellum 
the median segment and the base of the abdomen are black ; the meso- 
notum is thickly covered with pale fulvous pubescence ; there is an 
•impressed line on the middle lobe in the centre. The back of the 
abdomen is infuscated. The wings have a yellowish tinge at the base ; 
the basal nervures are luteous, the others with the costa and stigma are 
black ; the second cubital cellule is largely narrowed at the apex. Legs 
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coloured like the body ; the apex of the four front tibise and the apicea 
of their tarsal joints black ; the apical third of the hinder tibiae and the 
tarsi} except the basal two joints at the base, black. 
Cladius orientalis, sp. nov. 
Niger, tibiis tarsisque anterioribus late albis ; alis fere hyalinis, nervis 
stigmateque nigris. $ . 
Long : 7 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennae as long as the abdomen, distinctly tapering towards the 
apex ; the third, fourth and fifth joints with their apices sharply pro- 
duced on the upper side ; the basal two joints covered with stiff black hair. 
Head smooth and shining, thickly covered with short black pubescence ; 
the frontal area flat ; transverse behind and in the middle in front ; the 
sides at the apex obliquely narrowed ; before the ocelli is a curved 
shallow furrow ; the antennal area is continuous with it ; is raised, flat 
above, its apex triangular. The apex of the clypeus is roundly incised ; 
the labrum is slightly depressed in the middle. Thorax and abdomen 
smooth and shining, covered with a short black pile ; the cerci are 
moderately large, shortly pilose and widely separated ; the blotch is 
indistinct. Wings hyaline, with a slight fuscous tinge ; the stigma and 
nervures are deep black ; the recurrent nervures are received shortly 
behind the middle of the cellules. 
Belongs probably, like the other species here described, to PriopJio- 
rus. It may be known from Nigricans by being larger, by the tibise 
being pure white, by the curved farrow in front of the eyes, by the 
antennal tubercle not being so deeply hollowed, by the clypeus being 
more deeply incised, and by the clearer, more hyaline wings. 
Cladius nigricans, sp. nov. 
Niger, tibiis antecis geuieulisque fuscis ; alis fusco-hyalinis, nervia 
itigmateque nigris. $ et ^. 
Long : 5-6 m.m. 
Habitat : Simla. 
Antennse as long as the abdomen, tapering towards the apex and 
thickly covered with stiff black pubescence ; the basal joints of the 
flagellum not produced at the apices. Head smooth and shining j the 
frontal area not clearly defined ; there is a short fovea — longer than 
broad — in front of the ocelli ; the antennal fovea is distinctly, but not 
very deeply, depressed at the apex ; the antennal tubercle is large, tri- 
BESCRIPTIONS OP NEW HYMENOPTERA. m% 
angular on the top and reaching to the top of the clypeus, which is 
'transverse at the apex. The labrum is depressed in the middle. Man- 
dibles black, broadly rufous before the apex. Legs black; the base 
of the tibise and the anterior tibise in front fuscous. Wings hyaline, 
•with a slight fuscous tinge* the stigma and nervures black j the first 
recurrent nervure is received in a broad angle behind the middle of the 
■cellule, the cubitus in front of it being largely buUated ; the second is 
received at the apex of the basal fourth. The depression between the 
cenchri is wide at the base, becoming gradually narrov/ed towards the 
apex. 
The a,ntenng3 in the $ are longer, thicker and more densely pilose 
than they are in the $ ; the third joint is distinctly shorter than th« 
fourth, 
EXPLANATIONS OF PLATE. 
1. Meknapis violaceipennis, 9. 
2. Lamproapis maculipennis. $^ 
3. Pompilus heraclides. $ . 
4. Nursea carinata. 9. 
5. Meira quadrimaculata. 9 • 
6. Poecilotiphia albomaculata. 
7, la. Notogonia pulcherrima. 9, 
8. Mutilla regia. 9 . 
10. Nothaima bicarinata. $^ 
11. Bracon deeste, wing. 
12. Lithracia flavipes. <^„ 
13. Pyncobracon niger. 9, 
14. Ditherus ruficollis. $„ 
15. Fethalia nigra, 9-