128 lOHNEUMONID^. 



narrowly black ; tlie black continued along tbe inner side of tbe 

 lateral keel, becoming gradually wider to the base behind, and 

 slightly extending beyond tlie outer side of the keel ; the middle 

 keel broadly curved and united to the apex of the segment by a 

 lateral one ; pleura? smooth, shining. The basal depression of the 

 scutellum black ; the keel to the middle large and leaf-like, on 

 the apical half much smaller ; the scutellum sparsely covered with 

 long, black hair. The petiole broadly, but not dee])ly, depressed 

 at tlie base; its sides stoutly carinate ; the keels contiiuied down 

 the apical part to the raised middle of the apex, the part between 

 being depressed, broadly at the base, narrow ly at the apex ; the 

 second segment black at the base, the black bifurcating to the 

 furrow at the sides; there is a broad, continuous, transverse line 

 on the centre of the third, a line about three times as long as it 

 is broad on the sides of the fourth, a continuous line on the ilfth, 

 a short mark in the centre on either side of the sixth, and an 

 almost complete one across the seventh segment, black ; terebra 

 5 miUim., the sheaths of the ovipositor black. Legs coloured like 

 the thorax ; the basal joint of the hinder trochanters on the 

 underside, a large mark on tlie underside of the hinder femora in 

 the middle, the apex of the tibiae and the apical two joints of the 

 hinder tarsi, black. Wings with a distinct fulvous-smokj' tinge ; 

 the costa rufo-testaceous ; the stigma rufo-fuscous ; the nervures 

 fuscous ; areolet shortly, but distinctly^ appendiculated, triangular ; 

 the recurrent nervure received in the apical third. 



'■'■Length 15 millim.'* 



Assam : Khasi Hills {Rotlmey). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



This species appears to be related to Van VoUenhoven's variety 

 in its petiolate areolet : but all the legs of the latter are ilavous 

 throughout, and the abdominal spots are small ; it was captured 

 at Ambarawa, in Java. 



75. Xanthopimpla kriegeriana. Cam, 



Xanthopiinpla hrieqeriano, Cameron, Zeits. Hym.-Dip. 1908^ 

 p.38($). 



2 . riavous. Head smooth, with the ocellar region triangularly 

 black, face densely and clypeus less densely white-pilose. Thorax 

 smooth ; mesonotum with three large apical marks, of which the 

 lateral are irregularly oval, and the central larger and broader 

 than long ; notauli slender and indicated only on the apical slope; 

 metanotum with the basal lateral area^ black, large, and pentagonal, 

 internally elongate and roundly curved, externally with the basal 

 half almost straight and the apical obliquely sloped to the lateral 

 carina, where it forms a sharp angle with the inner one ; all the 

 other area) wanting. Ahdomen : basal segment with two black 

 marks, less than one-foui*th longer than apically broad, with its 

 basal impression laterally carinate ; the remaining segments broader 

 than long, the second and apical smooth, remainder closely and 



