XAXTUOl'IMPLA. 1 nj> 



basal angles o£ tho segments, oblique; secontl segment of 2 

 not longer than broad ; terebra shorter than the bod}'. Legs 

 stout and not elongate; apical hind tarsal joint tally t^A'ice as 

 long as the penultimate ; claws not pectinate nor basally lobate ; 

 pulvilli often strongly elongate. Areolet entire, triangular and 

 usuallv subpetiolate ; first recurrent nervure of the lower \\ings 

 intercepted distinctly above the centre. 



liaiKje. Australasia, Malay Archipelago, Japan, China, Tibet, 

 India and xlfrica. 



This genus,* which was named though not described by Saussure, 

 is well represented in India, but the species appear to be in a 

 state of transition, and it is very difficult to determine between 

 varietal and specific distinctions ; nor has Cameron's lack of 

 mention of the more important structural characters in his earlier 

 papers, or his description of them in his later ones, tended to 

 render the task of naming specimens from his descriptions easy ; 

 some of my supposed new species may be among those brought 

 forward by him, but if such be the case I have failed to identify 

 them. The mainly tiavous body and explanate scutellar border 

 render this genus y/evj conspicuously distinct. The discretion of 

 the labium from the clypeus has hitherto been overlooked. 



That Pimpla jnaictator, L. (Syst. ISTat. 1707, p. 935 1) and 

 Pimpht jmnctata, F. (^p. Ins. 1781, p. 4^37) belong to the present 

 genus appears to be tolerably certain ; but to which of the modern 

 species they are to be referred 1 have had until recently no idea. 

 That they are not synonymous, as treated by Ualla Torre (Cat. 

 Hym. 1901, p. 458), is, I think, suificiently apparent from the 

 circumstance that Fabricius described both (Hystema Piezatorum, 

 1804, pp. 114 et 119). The latter considered both Linne's species 

 as synonymous with his own F.pedator, Avhich had all the abdominal 

 segments black-marked, whereas in P. j)unctator only six are so 

 described, and P. punctata has but five with a spot on either side. 

 Van Vollenhoven has gone somewhat deeply into the matter in 

 liis paper " Einige neue Arten von Pimplarien aus Ost-lndien " 

 (Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 143) ; but he appears to have possessed 

 insufficient material and to have been too prone to erect barely 



" Canierou (Miincli. Mem. 1890, p. 163) says that Pimpla dedafor. F., 

 belongs to this section ot the unrestricted genus ; tliis is a /apsiis caluuii (ov 

 1'. pedaior, F. (Syst. Ent. 177;'>, p. 828). A 4? specimen of this genus is 

 figured, togctiier with the cocoon from which it liad emerged, in the Rev. J. 

 G. Wood's " Strange JJwellings/' p. ^04 ; lie sajs tliat a few only ])reT ujion 

 eacli liost-larva. destroying it between the periods of cocoon construction and 

 pupation, and tliat they themselves weave irregularly sliaped, angular cocoons 

 within that of the defunct liost, wliich in tliis case was probably a molli allied 

 to Attacus atl(i!<. 



t The folhnving is Linnrous' description of i'. ■p>ntrf((fiir: "I. Ilavus jnmctis 

 nigris, abdomine sessili. Habitat in Indiis. Corpus ilavuni, maunitudino 

 vespic minoris, sed angustius. Tliorax supra nigro maculalus. Scuiellum 

 punctis 2, nigris. Abdomen sessile, cylindricum, jainctis ]iariuui (> nigris, sen 

 in singulo .'egincnto biiiis. Aciileus exserlus, abdomine brevinr. Antenn;c 

 iiigrae. Pedes lutei puucto 1 s. 2 uigro." 



