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■spiracles large and strongly elongate. Seutellnm glabrous and 

 iiitiduloiis, shallowly and isolatedly punctate, laterally strongly 

 and closely punctate; postscutelluni rugosely punctate. Abdomen 

 immaculate, closely and strongly punctate, with the segmental 

 apices glabrous and nitidulous ; Urst segment basally broadly 

 impressed, smooth and subimpunctate, becoming distinctly punc- 

 tate beyond the strong but short carinio ; terebra e5-5 millim. 

 in length. Ler/s red, with all the coxic aiul hind troclianters, the 

 hind tarsi and apices of their tibite broadly, black ; all the coxa^, 

 tibios and tarsi densely fulvo-pilose. Wltujs fulvo-hyaline, with 

 the nervures and stigma fulvous. 



Length 13-17 millim. 



United Peovi?cces : Mussoori {liotlcacij, type) ; Madras : 

 Utakamand (Ind. Mus.). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



This is certainly a good species, closely allied to F. insligator, 

 but instantly known by the narrower abdomen, 'more nitidulous and 

 strongly liicariuate basal segment, strongly fulvescent wings and 

 apically broadly black hind tibiae. Probably i-are, since the only 

 specimen I have seen (which possesses entirely black hind femora, 

 not noted by Cameron) did not come to hand till 1910. 



104. Pimpla nepe, Cam. 



rimpla nope, Cainerou, Maucli. Mem. 1897, p. 23, pi. iii, fig. 4(5). 



2 . A black species with the legs mainly red. " Head closely 

 and strongly punctured below the antennae ; the front widely 

 depressed, impunctate, shining ; the palpi dirty testaceous. Prob- 

 and mesonotum strongly and closely punctured, thickly covered 

 with short pale hair ; median segment [metathoi*ax] with a gradu- 

 ally rounded slope from the base to the apex ; coarsely rugosely 

 punctured ; the centre broadly raised in the middle towards the 

 apex ; pleurae and sternum jninctured. The scutellum thickly 

 punctured behind, more sparsely in front; the top with a pale 

 orange mark ; the postscutelluni strongly longitudinally striolated. 

 The petiole with a deep impunctate excavation at the base; the 

 other segments closely and somewhat strongly punctured, except 

 at the extreme apex ; terebra 4 miUim. All the coxa? and tro- 

 chanters are black ; the former on the lower side thickly covered 

 with fulvous hair; the hinder tarsi black, except at the extreme 

 apex. 



•' Length 13 millim. 



" Almost identical in coloration \\ith P. faothoe, but may be 

 known from it by the absence of the furrow on the front and of 

 the keels on the propleuno; by the scutellum beii:g more closely 

 and strongly punctured and pale yellow in the centre." 



TJjVrrED PiioviNCES : Mussoori (lioihueij). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



The insect figured is undoubtedly a $ of the restricted genus 



