XANTnOPIMPIiA, 



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concolorous one at the base ; mesopleuras sparsely and somewhat 

 strongly punctate anteriorly and below, witii the sulci and 

 intumescence distinct ; nietanotum with an elongate black spot 

 in the external areae ; areola small and subquadrate, strongly con- 

 stricted basally, where it is but half the breadth of the apex ; 

 dentiparal arete triangular, anteriorly double their external length. 

 tSrntcUum transverse, conical and vertically rounded. Abdomen 

 diffusely and not strongly punctate, flavous, with tMo spots in the 

 centre of each of the six basal segments, and a laterally abbreviated 

 basal fascia on the seventh and eighth, black ; basal segment half 

 as long again as apically broad, with the carinas extending beyond 

 its centre. Legs flavous, with an elongate mark on either side of 

 the hind femora near their apices, the base of their tibiae, and the 

 first and last joints of the posterior tarsi, black. Winr/s distinctly 

 infumate-hyaliue, with the apical margin obscurely darker ; 

 uervures and stigma infuscate ; costa and half the tegulae flavous, 

 the latter partly black. 



Leuf/th i-i millim. 



Assam : Khasi Hills. 



Krieger had seen but a single male of this species, which is 

 unknown to me. 



74. Xanthopimpla appendicularis, Cain. 



Pitnp/a appe7idu:ularis, Cameron,* Mancli. Mem. 1899, p. lOO ( $). 

 ?Pimpla punctata, var. 2, Volleiihoven, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1879, 

 p. 143(cJ). 



$ . Flavous ; small mesonotal marks, and apices of the hind 

 tibife, black ; wings fulvo-hyaline, with the stigma infuscate red 

 and the nervures infuscate. " Head yellow, except the ocellar 

 region, which is black ; face closely punctured ; the clypeus 



smooth on the obliquely 

 depressed apex, the base 

 obscurely punctured. An- 

 tennaj longer than the 

 body, black ; the scape 

 yellow, the base of the 

 flagellum brownish be- 

 neath at the base. Meso- 

 notum closely punctured 

 at the base ; the raised 

 central part at the base 

 bordered by distinct fur- 

 rows ; at tiie base of the 

 tegulsB there is a mark, 

 broader than long, fol- 

 lowed in the middle by 

 a narrower and lontrer 



Fig. 27. 

 Xanthopimpla appendicularis, Cam. 



one, the whole forming an almost continuous line ; median 

 •segment [metathorax] smooth ; the base between the keels 



