162 ICHNEUMONIDiE. 



Mr. Rowland Turner tells me that during September 1903 the 

 females of this species were attracted to the blossoms of a plant 

 allied to our Meadowsweet {Sjnrcea ulmaria) ; his specimens go 

 to show that the metallic reilection on the abdomen is of variable 

 extent and in some examples almost wanting. ]My descri])tion 

 of the (S is drawn from a single specimen from the North Khasi 

 Hills, in the British Museum. 



107. Pimpla cyaiiea, sp. n. 



$ . A slender, brightly metallic blue species, with entirely black 

 hind legs. Head iunnaculate black, with the vertex somewhat 

 narrow and concave between the pale ocelli ; frons strongly ex- 

 cavate, shining, subglabrous and obsoletely punctate, with the 

 longitudinal sulcus obsolete ; eyes distinctly emarginate next the 

 glabrous scrobes ; face ■ coarsely and uniformly punctate, with 

 sparse and elongate white pilosity and the e])i8toma very narrowly 

 glabrous ; clypeus deplanate, nitidulous and only centrally dis- 

 crete, distinctly impressed before the elevated and subconcave 

 apex ; mandibles ^ith the teeth subequal in length. vhitemia; 

 very slender, entirely black and nearly as long as the body. 

 Thorax black, Avith a slight cyaneous reflection and a small 

 flavous callosity immediately before the tegulae ; mesonotum with 

 the notauli extremely obsolete and the recumbent pubescence 

 griseous ; metathorax trans-strigose throughout, with only the 

 undefined petiolar area smoother ; lateral costa) strongly elevated 

 above the elongate spiracles ; mesopleurte nitidulous and distinctly 

 punctate. Scntelhnn elevated, very shining, with erect pilosity 

 and sparse punctures. Abdomen not broader than the thorax and 

 broadest behind the centre, nitidulous metallic blue, with the 

 central segments very finely trans-aciculate, the two basal ones 

 with sparse and very distinct punctures ; basal segment hardly as 

 long again as apically broad and distinctly margined in the angles ; 

 anus glabrous, with the extreme apex brown ; terebra somewhat 

 stout, hardly longer than half the abdomen, with the spicula dark 

 red and the pilose valvalse black. Legs of normal length and not 

 stout, black, with the anterior tibiae (at least internally), the front 

 tarsi and the inner side of their femora, testaceous ; hind tarsi 

 with the fourth joint half the length of the third, the apical as 

 long as both, and the claws large, though not basally lobed. Wings 

 ample and siliceous, with the teguloe, nervures and stigma black, 

 radix and extreme base of stigma testaceous ;'areolet somewhat 

 small and hardly petiolate, emitting the recurrent nervure from 

 its apical third ; inner cubital centrally sinuate, with no nervelet ; 

 radial not sinuate above the areolet ; nervelkis emitted from the 

 upper third of the strongly postfurcal recurrent nervure. 



Length 12 millim. 



SiKKiM, 4000 ft., iv. 1894 {Col. C. T. Bingham). 



Type in the British Museum. 



