or MYSOL, CEEAM, WAIGIOU, BOURU, AND TIMOE. 9 



black, beneath obscurely rufo-fuscous ; the thorax with three longi- 

 tudinal black stripes, and, as well as the abdomen, closel}' punctured ; 

 the apical margins of the latter incrassate, smooth, and shining ; legs 

 stout ; femora incrassate ; the tips of the claws of the tarsi black ; 

 wings hyaline, with a dark brown macula at the apex of the marginal 

 cell. 

 Hab. Ceram. 



3. PiMPLA APlCALis. P. flavo-rufa, scapo supra nigro ; alis hyalinls J 

 abdominis segraentis duobus apicalibus nigris. 



Male. Length 7 lines. Reddish-yellow; the face and the mandibles yel- 

 low ; the scape above, a minute spot on the disk of the thorax, and 

 the two apical segments of the abdomen black ; the thorax shining 

 and smooth ; the metathorax with a semicircular space at its base 

 enclosed by an elevated carina, from which two oblique carinje run 

 on each side to a lateral carina, which extends from the base to the 

 apex. Abdomen closely punctured, each segment having a transverse 

 curved line ; the basal segment impunctate. 



Hab. Ceram. 



4. PiMPLA INSIDIATOR. P. rufoflava, abdomine svipra nigro, seg- 

 mentis flavo marginatis ; mesothorace nigro trivittato ; alis hyalinis, 

 apice cellulse raarginalis fusco unimaculato. 



Female. Length 6 lines ; of the ovi])Ositor 2^ lines. Reddish yellow ] 

 antennae fuscous above and ferruginous beneath ; the fice testaceous 

 yellow ; a spot in front of the ocelli, and three longitudinal stripes 

 on the thorax black ; the wings hyaline, with a dark brown macula 

 at the apex of the marginal cell. Abdomen black above, the basal 

 and apical segments reddish 3 ellovv, the apical margins of all the seg- 

 ments yellow ; the pectus black. The mule differs in having the ab- 

 domen reddish yellow, the margins pale, with the base of the third 

 and fourth segments black, the fifth and sixth entirely black, and the 

 base only of the apical one black. 



Hab. Mysol. 



5. PiMPLA DESTRUCTOR. P. rufo-flava, antennis tarsisque et abdo- 

 minis segmentis posterioribus nigris, marginibus apicalibus fasciis 

 flavis ; alis hyalinis. 



Female. Length 5 lines. Reddish yellow ; the face, mandibles, and 

 cheeks pale yellow ; the antenna? black, with the scape yellow in front ; 

 the claws of the anterior tarsi, the claw-joint of the intermediate pair, 

 and the tarsi and apex of the posterior tibia; fuscous ; the wings hya- 

 line, the uervures dark brown ; the mesothorax with two longitudinal 

 pale lines. Abdomen : the two basal segments yellow, the rest black, 

 with their apical margins yellow. 



Hab. Mysol. 



6. PiMPLA INCISA. P. nigra, capite, thorace pedibusque anticis et 

 intennediis ferrugineis ; alis nigro-fuscis. 



