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it is wide at the apex ; the basal central keels reach to the 

 middle ; it is smooth ; the 2"*^ is strongly, but not closely, 

 punctured except in the middle ; the S""*^ to 5'*^ are closely, 

 distinctly punctured ; the 6^'^ is more weakly punctured, the 

 apical smooth, the transverse furrows are narrow, shallow, 

 weakly crenulated. There are 2 transverse, oval marks on the 

 base of the ô*"'^ segment, 2 fuscous ones on the base of the 

 4"^ and indications of 2 marks on the 5*'\ The 2"*^' segment 

 is almost square, the others are broader than long, becoming 

 gradually shorter compared with the width; the 8^^' is slightly 

 longer than the 7^^ . On the apex of the hind tibiae, on the 

 outer side, are 5 stout spines in a row ; outside the basal 

 and S""^ is a similar spine. Antennae reddish brown, darker 

 above. Areolet wide, 4-angled, almost appendiculated ; the 

 recurrent nervure is received shortly beyond the middle. Ocelli 

 black. Occiput pale yellow. Mesopleur», except behind, closely, 

 strongly punctured. 



Xanthopimpla sulcata sp. nov. 



Reddish luteous, the pleurœ and ventral surface pale yellow; 

 the ocelli and small spots on the S^'*^ and 4*'^ abdominal seg- 

 ments black ; wings hyaline, the apex narrowly infuscated, the 

 stigma and nervures black ; the metanotura with 2 curved 

 keels on the sides at the base, forming large areae, dilated on 

 the outerside ; there is a transverse keel across the top of the 

 metanotura, there being no areola ; ovipositor slightly longer 

 than the hind tarsi, ç. 



Length 12 m,m. ; terebra 4 m.m. 



Merauke. 



Face slightly longer than wide, its middle slightly dilated; 

 it is irregularly shagreened and punctured. Apex of clypeus 

 transverse ; it is roundly dilated above, the apex depressed, 

 the foveae deep. Mesonotum smooth and shining : the furrows 



