ERYTnROTnEK()>'lA. — PIMPLA. 151 



iridescent, with a slight infiimate-violaceous reflection; teguloe 

 internally flavous, stigma testaceous and nervures black. 



Le)i(/t7i 12-14 luillim. 



Cetlox : Kandy, vii. and ix. {E. E. Green, 0. S. Wicl'ivar). 



No mention is made ot" the disposition of the wing-nei'vnres 

 in the above description, but from tlie iigure (I. c.) it seems 

 evident that the areolet is remarkably transverse and fully 

 twice as broad as high, emitting tlie recurrent nervure from 

 slightly before its apex ; the radius is bisinnate, above the areolet 

 and a little before its apex ; the basal nervure is poorly figured ; 

 nor does it appear clear whether the nervellus is emitted at, or 

 distinctly a little above, the centre of the obviously postfurcal 

 first recurrent of the hind \^ing ; the figure given by Cameron is 

 that of the cS . In my females all tliese points are correct, the 

 basal nervure is continuous through the median, and the nervellus 

 is intercepted very distinctly above its centre. 



Superficially this species has much the facies of a pale Echthro- 

 morj>]ia. 



Genus PIMPLA, F. 



Fim^yla, Fabricius, Piez, 1804, p. 112. 



Gekotype, Ichneumon instigator, F. 



Head transverse, short and broad, somewhat narrowed behind 

 the usually slightly emarginate eyes ; frons subimpressed, shining, 

 centrally a little concave, with the scrobes large ; clypeus basally 

 distinctly discrete, towards the apex strongly depressed, and not 

 emarginate apically ; labrum but slightly exserted ; mandibles 

 apically attenuate, with the teeth of equal length. Antennae 

 filiform and in 5 very slender ; scape strongly excised exter- 

 nally and in cJ often pale beneath. Thorax stout and convex, 

 often pilose and shining ; notauli usually obsolete ; metathoracic 

 areae never entire, usually the lateral alone traceable ; spiracles 

 not circular. Scutellum not strongly convex ; often pale. Abdo- 

 men broadly sessile and usually ■\\ider in the middle ; first segment 

 excavate at the base and, at least there, carinate, with the spiracles 

 befoi'e the centre ; remaining segments usually distinctly broader 

 than long, especially in the $ , with the surface strongly punctate, 

 distinctly uneven, laterally tuberculate, transversely impressed 

 before the subelevated apices ; two apical ventral segments of 5 

 divided for the passage of the terebra, which is always exserted, 

 thougli never longer than the abdomen. Legs not unusually short 

 or stout; tarsal claws simple, neither lobate nor pectinate. 

 Wings with the areolet complete and subtriangular ; nervellus 

 always intercepting the fii'st recurrent of the lower wing above 

 its centre. 



liange. Both hejiiispheres. 



