XANTHOPIMPLA. TnERONIA, 



139 



with the stigma and nervures black ; areolet small and triangular, 

 emitting the recurrent nervure from its centre. 



Leiujtli 9 millim. 



SiKKiM {Bingham). 



Unknown to me. 



87. Xanthopimpla appeudiculata, Cam. 



Xatithophnpla appeudiculata, Cameron. Fauna Mai. et Ivacc. Arch. 

 I.i.p.51(c?$). 



S $ . Head not much developed behind the eyes, and there 

 roundly and obliquely narrowed, tiavous, except the ocellar region, 

 where there is a mark longer than broad, which extends to the 

 end of the vertex and is rounded in front ; the face is strongly 

 and closely, the clypeus less strongly, punctate. Antenna' with the 

 scape pale ilavous ; the flagellum brownish. Thorax: on the base 

 of the raesonotum are three black marks touching each other ; the 

 central is about as wide as long, transverse at the base and apex, 

 and with the sides bulging roundly ; the lateral marks are larger, 

 their bases straight and slightly oblique, their outer side is rounded 

 outwardly, on the inner they are obliquely narrowed ; on the 

 base of the median segment are two black, ovoid marks, placed 

 transversely, the broad end on the outerside; the basal area is wider 

 than long, it becomes gradually but not greatly widened towards the 

 apex, which is transverse ; the outer basal area? are wider than long, 

 the areae next to them in front are triangular, oblique, and longer than 

 the width of the base, where the bounding keel bulges out ; pleurae 

 smooth and shining. Abdomen with twelve black marks ; the pair 

 on the petiole are broader than long, and have a short, sharp pro- 

 jection on the inner side at the base ; the second pair small ; the 

 third are the largest, about as wide as long and rounded on the 

 inner side ; the fourth pair smaller and somewhat similar in shape ; 

 the fifth distinctly wider than long, the sixth still wider but not 

 so long; remaining segments immaculate. In the 5 there are 

 no marks on the second segment, that on the fourth is very small ; 

 in the middle of the last segment are two curved oblique furrows ; 

 terebra 4 millim. Legs coloured like the body; the hinder tibiae 

 black at the base. Wings clear hyaline ; the nervures and stigma 

 black ; the areolet distinctly appendiculated. 



Length 11 millim. 



Laccadive Islands : Minikoi {Prof. Stanleg Gardiner). 



Its author regarded this species as closely allied to X.].niuc- 

 tata, E. 



Genus THERONIA, Hohug. 



Theronin, Holmgren, Of v. K. Sven. Vet.-Ak. Furli l.'^oi), p. 123; 

 id., K. Sv. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1860, p. 10. 



Genotype, T. atalanta', Poda. 



Head short, transverse and declivous behind the ocelli ; clypeus 

 not. elongate, slightly elevated transversely in the centre and 



