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ichneumonid.t:. 



elongately pale-pilose, with the latter apically impressed and 

 deepest at the extreme apex, which is inferiorly crenulate ; meta- 

 pleuroo basally not deeply impressed, with tlie base and tlie area? 

 below the lateral carina? glabrous, and the lateral ares) strongly 

 punctate. Scutellum sparsely and shallowly punctate ; post- 

 scutelluni closely punctate. Abdomen brunneous, with the basal 

 segment between its centre and apex, and tlie apices of the foui* 

 following segments narrowly, black ; first segment with the basal 

 fovea, the sides near the centre, the a|)ex and a broad oblique band 

 on either side of it, glabrous ; the remaining segments closely and 

 strongly punctate, but more obsoletely towards the anus ; third 

 and fourth segments deeply and broadly impressed transvei'sely 

 before their apices ; venter with the basal segment black and the 

 remainder fulvo-testaceous ; terebra not quite half the length of 

 the bodj% with the valvulae strongly pilose. Le(js flavous, with the 

 hind femora, tibite and tarsi fulvous. Wings clear hyaline, with 

 the nervures and stigma black ; areolet elongate, oblique and 

 shortly petiolate, with its intei'nal nervurestraight and the external 

 curved ; recurrent nervure emitted from very near the apex of the 

 areolet. 



Length 10 millim. 



Assam : Khasi Hills {Rothney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



100. Pimpla ampla, sp. n. 



d" 2 . A black si)ecies, with the tibise and femora entirely bright 

 citrinous, the scutellum white and tlie wings subflavescent. Head 

 of normal breadth behind the very slightly emarginate eyes, with 



the occiput finely punctate and 

 bordered ; frons subconeave and, 

 except centrally, finely piaictate ; 

 face more i-ugosely punctate 

 with somewhat elongate fulvous 

 pilosity, longitudnially im- 

 pressed on either side of the 

 epistoma ; clypeus truncate at 

 its transversely impressed and 

 subglabrous apex, as well as at 

 its convex and punctate base ; 

 mandibles immaculate and not 

 broad, palpi infuscate and the 

 cheeks very short. Antenna; 

 filiform and slender, a little 

 shorter than the bod}"" and im- 

 maculate, with the basal flagellar 

 joints cylindrical and strongly 

 elongate. Ihora.v obsoletely and confluently punctate, with the 

 petiolar area and specular region subglabrous; notauli short and 



Fig. o4. — Tiinj>Ia nmpJu, Moi 



