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punctate beneath, the mesopleurte not at all strigose, the seu- 

 tellum much more finely punctate throughout ; the hind legs 

 mainly black, with the coxte strongly and subconfluently punctate : 

 the areolet externally pellucid and the internal cubital nervuro 

 less sinuate. 



lOG. Piiupla indra, Cam. 



Pimpla indra, Cameron,* Mauch. 3Iem. 1899, p, 179 ( J). 



$ . Metallic blue-black, with the femora and anterior tibite 

 ferruginous. " The face strongly punctured ; the clypeus with a 

 row of larger, deeper and longer punctures ; the front smooth, 

 broadly depressed; the lower part quite smooth, the upper 

 obscurely transversely striated in the middle. Antennae black ; 

 the scape smooth, shining; the flagellum almost bare. Meso- 

 notum shining, having a faint plumbeous hue: the basal two- 

 thirds of the median segment [metathorax] strongly transversely 

 striated, most strongly so in the middle ; the apex in the middle 

 smooth, slightly raised in the middle; the sides obscurelv acicu- 

 lated : the base of the propleurae finely longitudinally striated ; 

 the lower two-thirds of the apical part rather strongly longi- 

 tudinally striated : mesopleuroi coarsely punctured, the middle 

 smooth above ; the apex stoutly crenulated, the part over the 

 middle coxte coarsely striated : metapleurte coarsely rugosely 

 punctured ; the apex more closely punctured than the base ; the 

 basal depression smooth in the middle, the sides roughly punc- 

 tured. Scutellum at the base very shining, bearing oul^' a few- 

 slight punctures ; its apex rugosely punctured : postscutellum 

 smooth, the depression at its sides wide, strongly longitudinallv 

 striolated. The central depression on the petiole smooth ; the 

 sides and apex roughly aciculated ; the sides at the apex divided 

 by a ftat, oblique, raised part ; in the centre above it is finelv 

 transversely striated, intermixed with large punctures : terebra 

 5 mm. Legs black ; all the femora and the anterior tibia) ferru- 

 ginous ; the anterior tarsi fuscous. AVings fulvo-hyaline, stio-ma 

 and nervures black." 



S . The hitherto undescribed S differs only in having the clypeus 

 subglabrous and concave, the abdomen narrower and subcylindrical, 

 the antennae stouter and less filiform, and the wings less stronglv 

 fulvescent. 



Length 10-15 millim. 



Assam : Khasi Hills {liothiey, tvpe), Shilloug, 6000 ft., v. & ix. 

 1903 (liotvland Turner). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species closely resembles P. arctica, but the face is more 

 strongly punctate and the metathorax distinctly trans-strigose. 

 Its author makes no mention of the very distinctive metallic blue 

 reflection of the abdomen ; it is certainly correctly ascribed to 

 the restricted genus Pimpla, allied to P. instigator, though more 

 slender, as I was enabled to note on examining the type 



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