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ICHNEUMONIDiE. 



Fig. 26. 

 XantJiopimpla irifusciata, Smith. 



composed of three spots across its disc, another before the scu- 

 tellum, and often a small one on its pleura;, black ; metathorax 



with indistinct areae, areola 

 subhexagonal ; petiolar area 

 entire, basally somewhat 

 strong, with no apophyses ; 

 an oblique black spot in 

 the external areae, spiracles 

 linear and oblique. ScuUl- 

 him flavous, convex, with a 

 narrowly elevated lateral 

 border on either side. Ab- 

 domen rut'escent- flavidous, 

 distinctly dull and longitu- 

 dinally confluently punctate, 

 with a distinctly transverse 

 and occasionally confluent 

 black spot on either side of the first and of each alternate * 

 segment ; basal segment glabrous, with inconspicuous carinse, the 

 following very strongly transverse and deeply impressed before 

 their apices, which are not nitidulous ; tubercles wanting, basal 

 angles obliquely incised and the eighth segment discally emar- 

 giuate ; terebra one-third or one-fourth of tlie abdomen, black, 

 with the valvulse stout, basally attenuate and a])ically deflexed, 

 spicula piceous and apically acuminate. Legs flavous, short and 

 distinctly stout ; all the tarsal claws and the base of the hind 

 tibiifi nigrescent, the former elongate, stout, not basally lobate nor 

 extending beyond the pulvilli ; c? with the apical half of the 

 posterior tarsi, and a spot on hind trochanters, black. Wings 

 hyaline, with their apices determinately infumate ; radix and 

 tegulse flavous, with their apices black ; stigma somewhat short 

 and broad, black, with the base testaceous : areolet small, trian- 

 gular, emitting the recurrent nervure almost fi'ora its extreme 

 apex ; first recurrent of the lower wings very strongly postfurcal 

 and emitting the nervellus from its upper third. 

 Length 9-] 4 millim. 



JS'epal: Thamaspur, xi. 1908 (Ind. Mus.) ; Sikkim (Col C. 

 T. Bingham)-^ AssAM : Khasi Hills (Brit. Mus.); Bubma : 

 Mandalay, ix. 1898 {Bingham); Nicobab, Islais^ds {Bingham)-^ 

 Ceylon : Kandy and AVattamulla, ix, 1909 (0. S. Wiclavar). 

 SiNGAPOBE (//. N. Ridley) ; Neav Guinea (Brit. Mus., type). 

 Type 5 in the British Museum. 



A¥e must, I think, at least temporarily, regard X. daripennis, 

 Cam., from Kuching, as distinct, though besides the hyaline wings 

 it differs from the present species only in having segments two 

 and four binotated with black. 



* For Caraei'on's second segment, read " third " et cont. 



