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ICHNEUMON ID.^. 



112. Pimpla laetiventris, Cam. 



riiiipla hfficnifn's, Cameron, Mancli. Mem. IHW, y. 1^3 (2). 



2 . A black species, with the legs red, their base and the abdomen 

 laterally flavous. Jlead nitidulous, with the froiis and vertex 

 glabrous ; ocelli laterally canaliculate ; face densely pale-pilose ; 



clypeus basal]}' dull bruii- 

 neous, deplanate throughout 

 and covered with elongate in- 

 tuscate pilosity ; palpi strami- 

 neous, mandibles immaculate. 

 Antenna' black. TJiornx uiti- 

 dulous, with short black pubes- 

 cence; pronotum with a narrow 

 iiavous line on its apical half ; 

 pro- and meso-pleurse glabrous 

 and nitidulous, the latter cen- 

 trally sparsely and the meso- 

 sternum densely pilose; meta- 

 thorax strongly and uniformly 

 punctate, with its apex and 

 the areola glabrous and densely 

 pilose ; metapleura; closely 

 punctate above the curved 

 lateral costiB and glabrous 

 below them. ScuielJum de- 

 planate, aciculate, sparsely punctate, m ith a central basal foveola ; 

 postscutellum glabrous and nitidulous. Abdomen black, closely 

 and strongly punctate throughout ; third and fourth segments 

 narrowly and obscurely, the fifth and sixth more broadly and 

 clearly, laterally flavous ; the sixth and seventh apically con- 

 colorous ; terebra as long as thorax and abdomen. Legs red, with 

 the coxae and trochanters flavous, and the anterior femora also 

 paler ; hind tibiae and tarsi subflavescent. Winris hyaline, with 

 the costa, stigma and nervures testaceous ; areolet broad and sub- 

 oblique, laterally coalescent above and emitting the recurrent 

 nervure from its apical fourth. 

 Length 10 millim. 

 Assam : Khasi Hills (Eothnei/). 

 Type in the Oxford Museum. 



This s])ecies is said by Cameron to be allied to his P. latifoveata, 

 from w-hich it diff'ers in its more closely jninctate metathorax, 

 larger areolet, flavous pronotal fascia, and by the more strongly 

 deplanate and punctate scutellum, though the structure of the last 

 is not described under the latter species. 



Fig. 37. — rimpla Icptiventri^, Cam. 



