PIMPLA. 167 



white ; second and third segments narrowly red at the base, 

 uniting obliquely down tlie sides witli a broad red apical band ; 

 third or (?) fourth similarly coloured, with the apex darker, 

 fourth rufescent at base alone ; first segment with the petiole 

 smooth basally and triangularly impressed, with tlie impression 

 extending apically in the form of a deep and broad canaliculation, 

 remainder deeply and distinctly punctate ; apices of the three 

 foUov.ing segments glabrous. Leijs stramineous througiiout, with 

 only the hind coxae slightly, and their femora distinctly, fulvous. 

 Wings hyaline, with the nervures nigrescent and the stigma 



Fi^. 06. — Viiiipla laiifoveata, Cam. 



inf uscate ; . areolet elongate, thrice as long as high, laterally 

 coalesced above, with the recurrent nervure pellucid ; tegulaj 

 flavous. 



Length 9 millim. 



Assam : Khasi Hills (Rothney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



" This species, in the coloration of the legs, agrees with P. hima- 

 layensis, with which it also agrees in having two longitudinal 

 keels on the base of the median segment ; but it differs from it m 

 the puucturation on the median segment being very much less 

 strong and the punctures fewer in number ; the puncturation on 

 the abdomen is also weaker, and it differs in the form of the 

 petiole, in which the apical furrow, so distinctly defined in the 

 present species, is represented in P. Jtimalayensis by a mere shallow 

 depression ; lastly, they are easily separated by the form of the 

 areolet, and by P. himalayensis having the hinder tibiae black and 

 white, and the hinder tibiae \_sic'] fuscous " (Cameron, loc. cit.). 

 To n)e it appears much more closely allied in the red-marked 

 abdomen and elongate basal fovea to my Pimpla ampla ; but the 

 entirely pale legs and venter and the broad areolet at once render 

 this species distinct. 



