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the length of the body, very slender and of equal thickness throughout, 

 brownish, basal joint swollen and black. Thorax smooth and polished ; 

 metathorax indistinctly sculptured, with an elongate-subquadrate cen- 

 tral area; tegulae piceous. Wings fusco-hyaline, with a slight violet 

 reflection ; nervures and stigma black, the latter with a pale spot at 

 base ; areolet rather small, triangular and somewhat oblique. Legs 

 stout, pale ferruginous ; the anterior coxae and the posterior tibiae and 

 tarsi blackish, their tibiae with a small pale annulus near the base. 

 Abdomen robust, broad, recurved and truncate at tip; entirely black; 

 the four basal segments very closely punctured, except their apical 

 margins which are smooth and shining, as well as the apical segments 

 entirely ; ovipositor nearly as long as the abdomen, stout, rufo-piceous. 

 valves short and black. Length 4f lines; expanse of wings 7i lines. 

 One specimen. 



2. Pimpla pedalis, n. sp. 



Black; legs except hind tibiae and tarsi, rufous ; wings subhyaline. 



Male. — Black, very closely puuctured; palpi fuscous; antennas fili- 

 form, rather slender, brown-black, three-fourths the length of the body. 

 Thorax shining, not distinctly punctured; metathorax finely punctured, 

 central area not distinct. Wings obscure hyaline, with a bluish-violet 

 gloss; nervures and stigma black; areolet triangular, rather oblique. 

 Legs stout, dull rufous ; anterior coxaa, and the posterior tibiae and 

 tarsi, blackish. Abdomen elongate, entirely black, closely punctured. 

 Length 5 lines; expanse of wings 8£ lines. 



One specimen. May be the % of P. tenuicomis. 



3. Pimpla fulvescens, n. sp. 



Yellowish-fulvous, polished ; face, tegulae and scutellum yellow; wings yel- 

 lowish-hyaline. 



Male. — Bright yellowish-fulvous, polished, impunctured; face flat, 

 yellow; eyes large and prominent; clypeus, mandibles, palpi and cheeks, 

 pale yellowish-fulvous, tips of the mandibles blackish ; antennae stout, 

 filiform, two-thirds the length of the body, dull ferruginous, the two 

 basal joints beneath yellowish. Thorax : mesothorax somewhat rugose 

 in front, with a blackish depression on each side, and longitudinal, sub- 

 obsolete, pale brownish stain on each side of the middle ; prothorax 

 and pleura with several irregular fuscous spots ; scutellum rather pro- 

 minent, yellowish, with the excavation in front blackish; postscutellum 

 also yellowish as well as the tegulae and a spot beneath ; metathorax 

 smooth and polished, stained with fuscous at base. Wings ample, yel- 

 lowish-hyaline, with a slight brassy gloss ; nervures blackish, honey- 

 yellow at base as well as the costa and stigma; areolet subtriangular 



