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the following segments a little transverse, becoming broader 

 towards the anus, transversely impressed before their apices and 

 obliquely at the basal angles ; the seventh segment irregularly 

 black in the centre ; terebra four-fifths the abdominal length, 

 stout, black, distinctly deflexed, with the valvulaj liardly pilose. 

 Legs stout and soine\Ahat short, \\ith a spot at the base of the 

 hind trochanters, of their tibiae, and of their tarsi, another at the 

 internal apical third of the hind femora, and their tarsal claws, 

 black ; claws stout and curved, though not basally lobate nor 

 longer than the pulvilli. Wings ample and hyaline, hardly 

 clouded at the extreme apex ; radix and tegulte flavous, the latter 

 apicaUy black ; costa and the somewhat narrow stigma piceous ; 

 areolet triangular, hardly petiolate and emitting the recurrent 

 nervure from its centre ; first recurrent of lower wings strongly 

 postf ureal and emitting the nervellus from its apical fourth. 



Length 18 millim. 



Nepal; Siickim : Sylhet (Bingham); Bexgal: Chapra (Mac- 

 henzie, Pasa coll.) ; BuiiiiA : Mandalay (Bingham). 



Type in the British Museum, 



This species is so closely allied to the foregoing that I have had 

 considerable difficulty in convincing myself that they are actually 

 distinct ; but there can, I now consider, be no doubt that the 

 very much longer terebra and the simply convex scutellum of the 

 (S constitute sutiieient grounds for separating them, more especially 

 since I have had tlie opportunity of testing the reliability of these 

 distinctions through a series of specimens and have invariably 

 found them to be constant in every instance. 



65. Xanthopimpla trifasciata, Smith. 



Pimpla trifasciata, Smith,* Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. viii, I860, p. ()4 



Pimpla apicipenms, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 161 ( $ ). 

 Xantliopimpla trifasciata, Krieger, Ber. Nat. Ges. Leipzig, 1899, 

 p. 60. 



d" $ . A pale flavidous species, with black spots on the body 

 and on the apices of the \\ings. Head very short, entirely flavous, 

 with the ocelli in a common black spot ; occiput vertical from the 

 posterior margin of the eyes, glabrous and not bordered ; frons 

 centrally elevated, with the scrobes large and reaching the vertex ; 

 face parallel-sided, subprotuberant laterally and deeply punctate 

 throughout; clypeus with the labrura nearly circular and basally 

 tuberculate ; mandibles nearly triangular, apically piceous, with 

 the lower tooth cylindrical and much the longer ; cheeks obsolete, 

 eyes strongly emarginate next scrobes. Antenna' filiform, slender, 

 about as long as the body, infuscate. with the scape stramineous 

 beneath ; flagellum riifescent at the base and extreme apex, with 

 the joints elongate and apically hardly nodulose. Tliorax nitidu- 

 lons and very obsoletely ])unctate ; notauli deeply impressed and 

 the mesonotum longitudinally canaliculate in front, with a band 



