266 HYMENOPTEEA. 



2. Pimpla caBruleata. 



Pimpla cceruleata, Cresson, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 397 ( <$ ? ) l . 

 Hab. Mexico, Orizaba, Cordova 1 (Sumichrast). 



3. Pimpla croceipes. (Tab. XI. fig. 12, ? .) 



Pimpla croceipes, Cresson, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 398 ( $ $ ) \ 

 Pimpla modesta, F. Smith, Descr. of New Species of Hymen, p. 229 2 . 



Hab. Mexico, Orizaba 1 (Sumichrast) ; Guatemala, San Geronimo, Purula, Las Mer- 

 cedes 3000 feet (Champion); Costa Rica, Cache, Irazu 2 6000 to 7000 feet (Bogers) ; 

 Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 6000 feet (Champion). 



One of the commonest and most widely distributed of the Central- American Ichneu- 

 mons. It varies greatly in size. 



- — 4 Pimpla punicipes. (Tab. XI. fig. 16, $ .) 



Pimpla punicipes, Cresson, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 398 ( $ ) '. 



Hab. Mexico, Ciudad in Durango 8100 feet (Forrer), Orizaba 1 (Sumichrast). 



5. Pimpla montezuma. 



Hab. Mexico, Chapultepec (Bilimek). 



Identical in coloration with P. punicipes (black, with the legs red and the tegulae 

 white), but smaller and narrower ; the antennae shorter, being scarcely longer than the 

 abdomen, while in P. punicipes they are nearly as long as the thorax and abdomen 

 together ; the ovipositor much longer, being fully three fourths of the length of the 

 abdomen ; the metanotum shining and impunctate ; the petiole shining and scarcely 

 punctured, and with an oblique punctured depression on each side at the apex above ; 

 the abdomen longer, the segments not so strongly punctured, and with a wider 

 impunctate band at the apices ; the wings have a darker tint, and have the stigma 

 livid testaceous. The pleurae and head are punctured, but not strongly ; palpi yellow ; 

 sheath of the ovipositor densely pilose. 



6. Pimpla feralis. 



Pimpla feralis, Cresson, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 399 (<J) \ 



Hab. Mexico, Milpas 5900 feet (Forrer), Orizaba l (Sumichrast) ; Guatemala, Volcan 

 de Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion). 



7. Pimpla mexicana. 



Nigra; tegulis palpisque albis; scutello, pedibus maculaque pleurali rufis; tibiis posticis albis, apice nigris; 



tarsis posticis pallidis, nigro annulatis ; alis subfumatis, stigmate sordide testaceo. $ . 

 Long. 10 millim. ; terebra 1-5 millim. 



