108 ICHXEUMONID.E. 



several white marks or blotches. Abdomen cylindrical, narrower 

 and iiuich longer than the thorax, with two small longitudinal 

 Avhite bas;il lines and the apical margin of the segments con- 

 colorons, that of the central ones being testaceons ; terebra shorter 

 than half the body. Wings greyish and 21 millini. in expanse; 

 costa and nervures black ; areolet irregidarly tett-agonal, with tlie 

 external less than half the length of the internal nervure. 



Length Kt niillini. 



The description of the head as white is misleading, and no one 

 appears to have recognised this species since it was first brought 

 forward, although Motschulsky refers to it as occurring in Cevlon 

 (Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, 1S6'A, p. 30). Walker says (Ann. iS\at. 

 Hist. 1S60, p. 306) that "this species is erroneously named 

 Cryptus (tlliij)ictas in the list of Ceylon insects lately published in 

 Sii* i^ Tennent's work on Ceylon." But Smith's Cruptas is only 

 recorded from Celebes, and is probably distinct : nor do I find 

 such an insect in either of Sir J, E. Tennent's works on the 

 subject. 



L. alhopicta is probably not an uncommon species throughout 

 India, where it extends from Ceylon {I)v. Tluvaites) to an altitude 

 of 6000 feet in the Khasi Hills of Assam {11. Turner) ; I have 

 seen examples captured in Sikkim in the Himalayas in April 1891 

 {Col. Bingham), and there is one in the Pusa collection from 

 Xaduvantum, 7000 ft., in the Nilgiri Hills of Madras {W. lioivson. 

 May 1004). Cameron, who records it from botli JMaskeliya and 

 Peradeniya, in Ceylon, in April and August, failed to recognise it 

 as already described, although he refers (Spolia Zeylanica, 1905, 

 p. 69) to Walker's types, which he su])posed w(.'re not in the 

 iiritish Museum, " otherwise Col. C. T. Bingham would have 

 described the aculeates in his work.... In that work he has 

 merely reproduced AValker's descriptions." The male appears 

 much the rarer sex, and the only example I have seen was 

 captured by sweeping in the jungle at Peradeniya in Ceylon, in 

 May 1909"(£'. E. Green). 



Genus XANTHOPIMPLA, Sans. 

 XanUtopiinpla. Sau^sure, Grand. Hist. Madag'., Hym. 189i', pi. xiii. 

 Genotype, Pimida punctata, P. 



Body stout, flavous and more or less profusely black-marked. 

 Head strongly oblique posteriorly ; clypeus distinctly discrete, 

 apically truncate and closely fitting upon the very large and 

 triangular labrum ; upper mandibular tooth obsolete ; cheeks very 

 short and the eyes strongly emargiuate internally. Apical flagellar 

 joint not longer than the two penultimate. Mesonotum not 

 transversely sti'igose ; nietathorax short, with strongly carinate 

 arese, of which the basal is entirely wanting ; spiracles large and 

 linear. Scutellum discally subpyramidal, and foliaceousl}^ mar- 

 .gined laterally. Abdominal impressions transverse and, at the 



