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ICHNETJMONID^. 



I have seen a small collection of nine specimens of this species, 

 taken by Mackenzie at Chapra, in Bengal ; and one from Dacca, 

 in the same province, on the 11th of January, 190G. The 

 type is in the Pusa collection, where also I have seen a J fi'om 

 Jabalpur, in the Central Provinces, and two others bred in 

 Eastern Bengal from the Pyralid, GnaplLcdocrocis medinalis, Guen., 

 too'ether with a § bred from the Hesperid, Parnara niaihias, P., 

 at^'Palur in Madras. Mr. Wickwar took a 5 at Mankulam, in 

 Ceylon, during November 19U8, and Mr. Baly presented oue to 

 the National Collection from " India" in 1851. 



63. Xanthopimpla pedator, F. 



1793, p. 157. 

 Fimpla pedator, Fabricius, Piez. 1804, p. 114. 

 Pimpla lepcha, Cameron, Mancb. Mem. 1899, p. 163 ($). 



J $ . A strongly punctate, flavous species, with the thorax 

 and abdomen black-spotted, ffead posteriorly declivous from 



the eyes, with the occiput de- 

 planate, glabrous, black below 

 throughout and distinctly bor- 

 dered ; the centre of the concave 

 frons, and the ocelli, black : face 

 strongly and deeply punctate 

 and dull, apically indistinctly 

 discrete from tlie transverse and 

 apically truncate clypeus, which 

 is surmounted by the elongately 

 exserted and triangular labrum ; 

 mandibles somewhat small, apic- 

 ally nigrescent aud acuminate, 

 with the lower tooth the 

 longer ; cheeks obsolete, eyes 

 very strongly emarginate next 

 the scrobes. Antennce a little shorter than the body, black, with 

 the extreme apex rufescent and the scape flavous beneath. 

 Tliorax stout and broad before the wings ; flavous, with three 

 oblong dots across the disc of the glabrous mesonotum, another 

 before the scutellum and one in the external arefe, black ; meso- 

 sternum strongly and deeply punctate, notauli short aud broad ; 

 upper metathoracic arere very strongly carinate, with the basal 

 area wanting ; areola quadrate, apically truncate and emitting 

 the costulse a little behind its centre ; petiolar area glabrous and 

 entire ; metathorax short, with the spiracles large and linear, 

 Scutellum flavous, centrally subpyramidal and narrowly bordered 

 throughout in both sexes. Abdomen flavous, not strongly shining 



Fig. 25. — Xantlwpijirpla pedator, F. 



