362 PARASITIC HYMENOPTEliA FROM THE SOLOMONS, 



pallid red, deeper in colour at base; wings highly iridescent, 

 brassy coloured at base, apex not very deeply clouded, stigma 

 dark fuscous, nervures black ; areolet not appendiculated, Inxt 

 the nervures united in front ; recurrent nervure received in 

 middle. Length, 13-14 ; terebra, 3-4 mm. 



Head smooth, thorax closely punctured : propleurse, upper 

 half of mesopleurae at base and, to a less extent, at apex 

 above, and middle of metanotum broadly, smooth. Abdomen 

 sparsely, weakly punctured : lower edge of sides of first seg- 

 ment with a broadly rounded furrow. Apical third of disco- 

 cubital nervure roundly curved towards cubitus. 



A distinct species, easily known by the uniformly rufous 

 body, the ab.sence of lines on the mesonotum, and the brassy- 

 tinted wings. Its scutellum is more roundly convex, more 

 raised over the mesonotum, than it is in E. notulatoria, F. 

 Sec. Krieger, being more like that of E. iiisidiafor and E. 

 rufa. Cam. 



Erythropimpla palltdiceps, sp.n. 



9 . Black : head pallid yellow, as are also the mandibles, 

 except at apex : palpi, thorax, the four front legs, except apex 

 of middle coxae, middle trochanters, and antennal scape, red ; 

 wings uniformly fuscous-violaceous, nervures black ; areolet 

 longish-triangular, moderately large, shortly appendiculated, 

 receiving recurrent nervure in the apex, bullated at cubitus, 

 recurrent nervure with two bullae. Length, 17 ; terebra, 16 

 mm. 



Sparsely covered witli pale pubescence the inetathoi-ax 

 densely so Prothunix paler colouix'd than the ivst of llioiax, 

 metathorax more deeply tinted than mesothorax. First abdo- 

 minal segment with a keel on either side of middle, the keels 

 stronger at base, not reaching to apex : basal two-thirds of the 

 s])ace between them smooth and shining, the apical closely, 

 not very strongly punctured, and with a narrow keel down 

 the midtUe ; basal five segments clcjsely, distinctly punc- 

 tured, with the usual transverse furrows, more weakly punc- 



