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Pimj^hi saijra.', Voll., is recorded from "India" by l)all;i Tox're 

 (Cat. ii ym. lii, p. 448) ; but its autlior describes both sexes (^tett. 

 Ent, Zeit. 1879, p. 14U) from Java only, and I have heard of uo 

 isubsequent records. 



OS. Pimpla latisulcata, ('am. 



Pimj)la latisulcata, Cameron, Zeits. Ilym.-Dip. 1908, p. 40 (J'). 



S • Black. Head glabrous and nitidulous, with only the face 

 and elypeus closely and strongly punctate, densely and somewhat 

 elongately iufuscate-pilose. lliorax: pro- and mesotliorax niti- 

 dulous, sparsely and obsoletely punctate ; metapleural carina) 

 strongly and closely punctate, densely white-pilose. Scutdlam 

 black, more strongly punctate than the mesouotum, centrally 

 longitudinally sulcate throughout and less broadly towards its 

 apex. Abdomen more than twice as long as the thorax, strongly 

 and rugosely punctate, most strongly on the basal segments, with 

 the basal segmental impressions crenulate ; apex of basal segment 

 with a short central line, and narrow lines at tlie apices of the 

 second to sixth, rufo-liavous. Ler/s : anterior pairs pale fulvous, 

 with their coxa3 and trochanters liavous ; hind legs red with the 

 tibite darker below and ])aler above, and their tarsi black, Win(/s 

 hyaline and strongly iridescent, with the nervures and stigma 

 black ; areolet broad above, emitting the recurrent nervure from 

 its apical fourth; transverse median nervure pellucid. 



Lemjth 12 millim. 



SiKKiM (Biiu/ham). 



The peculiar conformation of the scutellum should at once 

 distinguish this species, which I have not seen, from all the other 

 PiMPLiDES ; the pale-marked abdomen relates it somewhat to the 

 irenus E.veristcs, I'urst. 



99. Pimpla bicariuata. Cam. 



Pimpla hicarinata, raiiieroi:, Mancli. .Mem. 1800, p. 171 ( $ ). 



9 . A black s])ecies witli the abdomen and mouth brunneous, 

 the legs mainly flavous and the wings hyaline. Head black ; face 

 sparsely punctate, with somewhat elongate infuscate pilosity ; 

 epistoma obtusely carinate ; elypeus, labrum and mandibles 

 brownish and nitidulous, with the teeth black ; palpi pale flavous ; 

 fi-ons and vertex glabrous and nitidulous, the former but little 

 ■de])lanate. Antennee black, with the scape thickly aud elongately 

 Mhite-pilose. jf'Aom.v glabrous and Jiitidulous, immaculate black; 

 niesonotum densely and elongately white-pilose ; metathorax 

 strongly and uniformly punctate, with the glabrous central area 

 straightly and distinctly carinate and apically divergent ; pro- and 

 jueso-pleura) glabrous and nitidulous, sparsely and somewhat 



