PIMPLA. 155- 



superficial, mesouotal pubescence sliort and fulvous ; metathorax 

 basally trans-aciculate, Mitli no area) and only the lateral costae 

 traceable ; spiracles broadly ovate, apophyses wanting. Scutelluin 

 and postscutellmn, except apically, bright stranuneous, deplanate^ 

 with inl'uscate ])ilosity but no border. Abdomen of S cylindrical 

 and parallel-sided, of $ elongate fusiform ; nitidulous and obso- 

 letely punctate, black, with the extreme apices of the four basal 

 segments indefinitely badious ; basal segment nearly twice as long 

 as apically broad, subglabrous, centrally elevated and shallowly 

 canaliculate to near its apex ; the following three subtransverse, 

 with obsolete lateral tubercles and the apical ones becoming more 

 transverse ; venter black, valvulsB not exserted ; terebra half the 

 length of the abdomen, spicula black. Legs slender and not short, 

 pale flavous, with only the coxae and posterior trochanters black ; 

 tarsal claws slender, curved, not basally lobate nor extending 

 beyond the ])iilvilli, with the apical half alone black. Wings 

 ample, slightly and evenly flavescent throughout ; radix and 

 tegulse stramineous ; costa and stigma piceous,the latter intei'nally 

 ferruginous ; areolet not small, oblique, sessile and emitting the 

 recurrent nervure from its a])ical third ; radius straight ; first 

 recurrent of lower wing strongly postfurcal, emitting the nervellus 

 fi'om its upper third. 



Length 8-16 millim. 



Ceylon : Horton Plains, 0500 i\., v. 02 (Bin(/7uim, type),. 

 Maskeliya, iii. 09 (F. Bainhrigge Fletcher), Ohiya, GOOO ft., viii". 06^ 

 and i\grapatnas, xii. 09 (0. iS. WwK^var), Xamuuakule, 6600 ft,, 

 ii. 10 {E. E. Green). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species is closely allied to P. instigcdor, 1\, but the whole 

 sculpture is finer and much more strongly nitidulous ; the legs 

 are conspicuously paler, substramineous, with the liind tarsi con- 

 colorous, the wings are decidedly flavescent and the metathoracic 

 spiracles much broader. 



101. Pimpla taprobanae, Cam, 



Pimpla tajirolano', Cameron *, INJaiich. Mem. 1897, p. 21 ($). 



5 . Black with the legs flavous, the coxae and trochanters black,, 

 and the wings fulvo-hyaline. " Head closely punctured, covered 

 with a short white pubescence ; the face projecting, at top 

 forming almost a triangle ; clypeus forming a semicircle at^^the top, 

 where it is obscurely punctured ; the apex almost perpendicular; 

 the labrum piceous, fringed with long golden hair ; palpi and 

 mandibles entirely black. Pro- and meso-notum thickly covered 

 with fuscous hair ; obscurely shagreened ; pro- and meso-pleurae 

 shining, impunctate, thickly covered with short v/lutish pubescence, 

 and having a ])lumbeous tinge ; tlie median segment [metathorax] 

 broadly raised in the middle at the base; the centre raised;, 

 strongly, the sides finely transversely, striated ; the centre at the 



