riMPLA. 163 



The remarkable metallic coloration of this boautiful species 

 exceeds that of the most pronounced forms of P. inUra, from 

 which the colour of the femora will instant!)^ distinguish it. 

 I know no other metallic Indian species in the genus. 



108. Pimpla turionellae, L. 



Ichneumon iurionellce , L., Faun. Suec. 1761, p. 404. 



Cn/ptus turionellce, F., Syst. Piez. 1804, p. 87. 



Pimpla luriuncUa', Gravenliorst, Ichn. Eur. iii. ]>. 192 ; Thomson, 



Opusc. Eut. viii, p. 747 ; Zetteistedt, Ins. Lapp. p. 367 ; Katze- 



burg, Ichn. Forst. i, p. 883 ; Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Handl. I860,. 



n. 10, p. 21 ; Taschenberg, Zeits. Ges, Nat. 1803, p. 53 ;. 



cf. Yolleiiboven, Pinac. pi. ix, fig. 7 (d 2)- 

 Var. P. sirif/ipleuris, Thomson, /. c. ; id., o^). cit. xiii, p. 1408 ; id.,. 



o;j. «Y. xix, p. 2125 (cj" 5). 

 Var. P. favicoris, Thomson, op. cit. viii, p. 747 ; id., ojh cit. xiii, 



p. 1408 (d 2). 

 Var. Ichneumon (p-ammcUce, Scbrauk, Fauna Boica, II, ii, p. 301, 



Cryptus e.vaminatur , F., op. at. p. 8o ( 2 ). 

 Pimpla examimitor, Gravenhorst, op. cit. p. 207 ; et auctt. 

 Var. P. Oilineata, BruUe. Hist. Nat. lus. Hvm. iv, p. 98 ( 2 ) ; 



Lucas, Exp. Alg. iii, p. 323 ; Tosquinet, Ichii. Afr. p. 284 ( 2 ). 

 ? Var. P. cheionice, Giraud, Ann. Soc. Eat. France, 1869, p. 149 



J 2 • -^^ somewhat smooth, black species, with the legs parti}' 

 red and white and the coxse black. Head immaculate, I'ounded 

 behind the broadly and ver}- slightly emarginate eyes ; face convex 

 and strongly punctate throughout ; clypens centrally depressed 

 and apically margined ; frons trans-aciculate ; palpi piceous, with 

 the three apical joints of the J stramineous. Antenna; slender 

 and nearly as long as the body ; black throughout or apically 

 ferruginous beneath ; scape immaculate. Thorax of 2 1 fn'cl 

 sometimes of the S , with a more or less obsolete flavidous line 

 before the radix ; mesouotum evenly punctate and shining, with 

 the notauli almost wanting; metathorax transversely acieulate- 

 punctate, with no areae ; petiolar region glabrous and nitidulous, 

 spiracles ovate and longer than broad : of iS with griseous pilosit}'. 

 Scutelhim immaculate, subconvex, finely punctate throughout with 

 griseous pilosity. Abdomen closely and evenly punctate and some- 

 what dull ; of J subcylindrical, longer and a little narrower than 

 the head and tiiorax ; of the 2 oblong-ovate, nearly double the 

 length of and as broad as the thorax ; first segment basally scrobi- 

 eulate and bicarinate ; segments with all the apical margins niti- 

 dulous though hardly elevated and not laterally tuberculate, often 

 apically castaneous ; terebra setigerous, about half the length of 

 the abdomen. Leys red or fulvous, with the coxa; and trochanters 

 red or (in var. examinaior) black ; anterior tibia? more or less 

 pale-banded before their base ; hind legs somewhat elongate, dull 



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