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and broadest distinctly behind the centre ; the five basal segments, 

 the seventh and sometimes the sixth with a subcircular spot, 

 representing the obsolete tubercles, on either side ; basal segment 

 discallv glabrous, with distinct carinae extending almost to the 

 centrailv elevated apex ; the following segments a little trans- 

 verse, becoming broader towards the anus, transversely impressed 

 befoi'e their hardly glabrous apices and obliquely at the basal 

 angles ; terebra hardly one-fourth of the abdominal length, stout, 

 black, with the valvulae indistinctly pilose. Lerfs stout and 

 somewhat short, with a spot on the hind trochanters, on their 

 femora internally at the apical third, the base of the posterior 

 tibiae and tarsi, and the hind tarsal claws, which are stout and 

 curved (though not basally lobate, nor longer than the pulvilli), 

 black. Wings ample and hyaline, hardly clouded at the extreme 

 apex ; radix and tegulae flavous, the latter apically black ; costa 

 and the not unusually broad stigma piceous ; areolet exactly 

 triangular, almost petiolate and emitting the I'ecurrent nervure 

 from its centre ; first recurrent of lower wings strongly postfurcal 

 and emitting the nervellus from its upper fourth. 

 Length 14-17 millira. 



Tgpe in the Glasgow Museum ; type of X. lepclia in the 

 British Museum. 



This species is certainly very closely related to the following, 

 but will at once be recognised therefrom by the points of distinction 

 indicated under the latter. The form described by Cameron has 

 the mesonotal marks extending to the scutellum, and the second 

 segment immaculate ; but the abdominal spots vary in size and I 

 have seen a female in which they were subobsolete on that 

 segment ; he says the metathorax also is immaculate, but I have 

 seen nothing less than small black dots in the external ai'ese. 



1 consider myself entirely justified in making use of the 

 Fabrician title for this species. I have already pointed out in 

 my remarks on the genus that it cannot be synonymous with 

 Ichneumon pimctator, L. ; I have examined the tj^pe of Ichneumon 

 pimetatus, F., in the Banksian collection ; Cameron has sent a 

 female to the British Museum bearing this name and agreeing 

 entirely with his type there of PimpJa lej>cha ; and entirely 

 analogous specimens have been named Phnpla pedator, F., by 

 Fred. Smith. 



In the Pnsa collection are both sexes captured by II. H. Mason 

 and others at Ilanchi and elsewhere in Bengal, in November 1906, 

 and January 1907; and the S at Mussoori, 7000 ft., in October 

 190G. One $ was bred from an unknown Lepidopterous chrysalis, 

 enclosed in a brownish cocoon, whence the parasite had gnawed 

 an exit through an irregularly circular hole in the head ; it is from 

 Nagpur, Central Provinces, and another is from Koilpati, Madras. 

 Rothney's $ is from the Khasi Hills, in Assam ; and Bingham 

 has three of the same sex, taken at Sikkim in April 1891 and 

 1900. A very large $ of this species was captured by the latter 

 in the Haundraw Yalley, Tenasserim, during May 1890, and is 



