TO NEW GUINEA IN 1904 AND 1905. PAKT 11. 4.5 



Xanthopimpla Sau ss., sec. Krieger. 



Smith, in his Series of papers on the Hymenoptera collected 

 by A. R. Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, describes a large 

 number of yellow or testaceous species under Pimpla, which 

 doubtless belong to Xa7ithopimpla, but so badly and with so 

 little attention to structure or form that it seems utterly 

 impossible to identify his species without an inspection of 

 the types from which the species were described. Very possi- 

 bly only a feAv of his numerous species of Pimpla belong to 

 Pimpla as now restricted; most of them are to be referred to 

 Xanthopimpla and some to Echthromorpha and Theronia. 

 a. Areola open laterali >/ at the apex. 



1. Abdomen maculate with black. 



Beavforti and papuana. 



2. Abdomen not maculate with black . . Sulcata. 



Xanthopimpla beau/orti sp. nov. 



Lateous, the head and pleurae pale yellow, 2 marks on the 

 3rd ^ 4th au(j 5'h abdominal segments and two broad, almost 

 united, ones on the 7*^^ , and the ovipositor black ; wings 

 hyaline, the apex smoky, the stigma and nervures black ; the 

 ovipositor as long as the basal 2 joints of the tarsi. 5. 



Length 12 ; terebra 1 m.m. 



Etna Bay. Merauke. 



Basal 2 keels on metanotum roundly curved, not united 

 to the posterior by longitudinal keels. Parapsidal furrows 

 reaching to the middle. Mesopleurfe smooth above, closely, 

 distinctly punctured below. First abdominal segment smooth, 

 fully one half longer than it is wide at the apex ; the basal 

 keels weak, narrow, only indicated an the basal slope ; the 

 2"*^ segment slightly longer than wide, punctured, smooth at 

 the base and down the middle, the 3'*^ square, the others broader ; 



