PIMPLA. 165 



with its sides straightly and stoutly carinate ; propleurce smooth 

 and strongly uitidulous, deeply excavate below, with the apex 

 punctate above and the sides crenulate throughout ; mesopleurao 

 also shining aud smooth, A\ith the furrow near the base curved, 

 moderately wide and deep, and not reachiug the tubercles, sub- 

 triangularly punctate at the tegulse, apically depressed below and 

 bordered bv a narrow crenulated furrow ; metapleurte strongly- 

 punctate above the lateral carinte and basally rugose, more ^^•eakly• 

 below it. Scutelhim and postscutellum glabrous and iiupunctate,. 

 with infuseate pilosity. Abdomen immaculate ; petiole rugosely 

 punctate througliout, basally impressed, laterally strongly carinate 

 to bevoud the centre aud strongly, with the following segments 

 closelv, punctate, becoming gradualh'^ weaker towards the anus ; 

 venter black, with the basal segment plicate to shortly beyond its 

 centre, apically smooth, laterally impressed and aciculate above, 

 with the lower part finely strigose and its outer edge longitudinally 

 striated. Legs with all the cox38 and femora fulvescent ; anterior 

 tibi;^ aud tarsi flavous ; hind tibiae black, with the centre broadly 

 white aud the tarsi nigrescent. Wings hyaline, with the stigma 

 and nervures black ; areolet laterally coalesced above, emitting the- 

 recurrent nervure at its apical third. 



Length 12 millim. 



Assam : Khasi Hills (liothney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



110. Pimpla apollyon, sp. n. 



2 . A large black species, with the anterior femora and tibiae- 

 red. Head transverse, somewhat short and strongly narrowed 

 behind the eyes; frons concave and subexcavate, not transversely 

 aciculate and with no longitudinal sulcus ; clypeus basally elevated,, 

 strongly depressed towards the glabrous and subtruueate apex : 

 eyes oblong-ovate and slightly emarginate next the scrobes ; face- 

 strongly and evenly punctate, with elongate griseous pilosity, 

 centrally hardly but laterally distinctly convex, with the epistoma 

 obsoletely glabrous ; mandibles stout and basally coarsely punc- 

 tate, margined below; palpi with the three apical joints fulvous. 

 Antenna- (broken) slender and filiform, with the basal flagellar 

 joints apically subnodidose and the first nearly half as long again 

 as the second ; flagellum not ferruginous beneath, scape finely 

 punctate. Thorcuv stout, gibbous, immaculate ; mesonolum and 

 mesosternum evenly punctate and a little nitidulous, with obsolete 

 notauli ; mesopleura? strongly punctate and posteriorly sub- 

 strigose ; raetathorax subdei)lanate and very strongly trans- 

 aciculate throughout, with only the undefined petiolar area 

 smoother ; all the area? wanting, lateral carina effaced by trans- 

 striation, spiracles elongate-oblong. Scutelhim subelevated and 

 black, not shining, with scanty pilosity. Ahdomen black, oblong- 

 ovate, longer and hardly narrower than the head and thorax ; 



