XAXTIIOPIMPLA. 113 



50, Xanthopimpla tigris, Krieij. (Plate I, fig. 5.) 



Xanfhopimpla tit/ris, Krieger, Ber. Xat. Ges. Leipzig, 1899, p. 75 



Pimpla curciinacuhtUt, Ciimeron, Maiicli. Mem. 1899, p. 158 (c?)- 



5 . Very like X. trlfasciafa, Sm., but with black abdominal 

 bands. Head very short, flavous, with the vertical occiput 

 centrally, and the ocellar region, black ; frons centrally elevated, 

 witli the scrobes large and reaching the vertex ; face parallel- 

 sided, laterally subproniinent and evenly punctate thronghout ; 

 clypeus with labrum nearly circular, and slightly convex basally ; 

 mandibles elongate-triangular, apically infuscate, with the lower 

 tooth cylindrical and much the longer ; cheeks obsolete and eyes 

 strongly emarghiate next the scrobes. AnUnnce subfiliform^ 

 almost thicker towards their apices and as long as the body, 

 infuscate, with the scape stramineous beneath ; Hagellum feri'u- 

 ginous at the base and extreme apex, with the joints elongate 

 but hardly nodulose apically. Thorax nitidulous and obsoletely 

 puuftate ; notauli distinct, but the mesonotum convex between 

 them, with a band composed of three black spots across its 

 disc, of which the exterior coalesce basally with a prescutellar 

 black spot ; mesosternum punctate and basally produced tri- 

 angularly between the intermediate coxte ; metathorax with very 

 indistinct arese ; areola wanting apically throughout ; petiolar 

 area basally weak, with no apophyses ; an oblique bhick spot in 

 the external areoe; spiracles linear and oblique. Scutcllum flavons, 

 convex, with a broadly elevated lateral border on either side. 

 Abdomen flavous and distinctly shining, longitudinally and con- 

 fluently punctate ; a spot in centre of the two basal segments, of 

 which the fii'st is usually transverse, a curved band on the third 

 and fifth, a straight one at the base of the seventh, and a dot on 

 either side of the fourth, sixth and often eighth segments, black ; 

 basal segment glabrous, with inconspicuous carini^, the following 

 not very strongly transverse, deeply impressed before their not 

 very shining apices, with tubercles wanting, their basal angles 

 obliquely incised and the eighth segment discally emarginate ; 

 terebra one-third the length of the abdomen. Le(js as in A', tri- 

 fasciata, but with the whole apical joint of the hind tarsi black. 

 Winr/s also identical, but with the recurrent nervure emitted 

 slightly before the apex of the areolet. 



Length 12-15 millim. 



81KKIM, iv. 91 (Biiu/ham); Assam: Khasi Hills (RotJmey, 

 Krier/er). 



I had at first considered this 2 as no more than a colour 

 variety of X. frifasciaf.n, but the anteriorly subconvex mesonutuui, 

 broader scutellar border, and more nitidulous abdomen, with longer 

 segments, render it sufficiently distinct, without considering the 

 more profuse cephalic, thoracic and abdominal black markings. 



Cameron, who knew only the c? , indicates it as differing 

 from the ? merely in having the metathoracic area) for the 



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