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ig_ 28. — Xantho'pimpla tcq^rohanica, Cam. 



the face rugosely, and the hase of tlie clypeus sparsely, punctate; 

 ocellar region triangiUarly black ; occiput immaculate flavous. 

 Thorax with the notauli extending to shortly beyond the centre 



of the smooth and impunc- 

 tate mesonotum ; all pleurae 

 impunctate ; a broad and 

 irregularly trilobate band 

 across the base of the meso- 

 notum between the radices, 

 a largo basally curved trans- 

 verse mark extending to the 

 scutellar fovea, and a broad 

 and centrally constricted 

 basal metanotal band, black ; 

 metathorax with the areola 

 large, basally incomplete, 

 apically truncate, longer than 

 broad, and laterally angled 

 ■s.jghtly beyond its centre ; external areae laterally roundly curved 

 ana externally broader ; " the second large, broad, oblique, of equal 

 width throughout ; the apical lateral area triangular ; the apex on 

 the outer side, the upper angle longer than the lower." Scutellum 

 roundly convex, with its lateral carinas not very stout. Abdomen 

 flavous, with the black markings thus : — first segment with two 

 large oblique central marks which are dilated in the centre at the 

 base ; second with a small oblique mark which is obliquely con- 

 stricted basally and apically ; third with a large broad band which 

 is irregularly * constricted laterally and shghtly incised at both 

 base and apex ; fourth immaculate ; fifth Nvith two large broad 

 bauds which are externally rounded ; penultimate with a broad 

 band on its basal half ; apical with two marks. Basal segment 

 ■distinctly longer than apically broad, smooth, with only some 

 central punctures ; second to fourth segments closely and strongly 

 punctate, with crenulate incisions ; terebra as long as the hind 

 tarsi or one-fifth of the body (2 millim.). Legs flavous, with the 

 ■apex of the intermediate femora and the base of their tarsi, most 

 of the hind trochanters, a broad band on the lower part and 

 extreme apices of their femora, base of their tibiae, and their tarsi 

 almost entirely, black. Wings hyaline, with their apices infumate ; 

 tegulae black-marked ; areolet small, oblique, triangular, and 

 shortly petiolate. 

 Length 10 millim. 

 Ceylon : Kandy (E. E. Green). 



I have examined a female, now in the Oxford Museum, which 

 was captured in Ceylon by Thwaites in 1872. In Prof. Ivrieger's 

 work on the genus Xanthopwipla (Bericht. d. Naturf. Ges. zu 

 Leipzig, 1899, p. 69) this species is said to be most closely allied 

 +0 his X. splendcns. 



