EPIURUS. 175 



sparsely on pleura? and sternum ; niesonotum with short erect 

 white pilosity and distinctly impressed uotauli ; metathorax short 

 and abruptly declivous, with an apically obsolete triangular or 

 subquadrate areola, trans-strigose and laterally entire petiolar 

 area and quite circular spiracles, facing towards base. Sentellam 

 strongly deplanate, shining black, with sliort erect pilosity and 

 sparse but deep punctures, ulhdomen immaculate and centrally 

 somewhat dilated ; all the segments strongly and confliiently 

 punctate, transversely subimpressed in the centre, with their 

 apices glabrous and elevated ; tubercles transverse and not strong ; 

 basal segment hardly longer than half its apical breadth, with the 

 following distinctly transverse, especially towards the nitidulous 

 anus ; venter black, with the three basal segments centrally 

 plicate; terebra as loug as thorax and abdomen, with the valvule 

 somewhat distinctly pilose and the apically incrassate spicula 

 ferruginous ; S valvulae strongly exserted. Legs bright fulvous 

 throughout, with only the extreme base of the posterior tibiaj 

 flavescent and the anterior coxa? black ; 6 with hind coxte also 

 mainlv nigrescent ; all the tarsal claws piceous and in $ strongly 

 lobate basally. Wimjs normal and hyaline: radix, tegula?, asmall 

 callosity before the latter, the base and apex of the stigma, and 

 the front margin of the costa, clear stramineous ; inner margin of 

 costa and most of stigma ferruginous ; areolet broadly triangular, 

 emitting the recurrent nervure only slightly before apex ; nervelet 

 of internal cubital pellucid, brunneous and extending far beyond 

 centre of the cell ; nervellus intercepting tlie only slightly post- 

 furcal first recurrent of lower wing at its upper thu-d. 



Lenf/th 12 millim. 



Baluchistan : Quetta, v. 04 (Jarse) ; Kashmir, 5000-GOOO ft., 

 V. 01 (JS'urse). 



Ti/pe in Col. J^furse's collection. 



Closely related to Pimpla rohnsta, Mori., but with the terebra 

 much longer and body stouter; the peculiar coloration of the alar 

 costa, short basal segment, and elongate nervelet render it very 

 distinct. P. imnctata, Thorns., indigenous to the northern islands 

 of the Adriatic and Istria, appears to diifer very little from 

 P. nursei ; but 1 do not know it. 



1 liave been enabled, through the kindness of Col. Nurse, to 

 draw the above description from the type specimen. Hater found 

 in his collection the hitherto unknown male, which he took in 

 Kashmir. 



118. Epiurus lineipes, sp. n. 



2 . Entirely black, with the legs red and the hind tibia? black- 

 lined. J/end obsoletely punctate and strongly nitidulous, broad 

 but not buccate behind the entire eyes ; face hardly pubescent, the 

 epistoma longitudinally elevated ; clypeus very siiort and deeply 

 separat(;d; palpi testaceous. Anieriiue immaculate. Thorcu- strongly 

 nitidulous throughout, extremely obsoletely punctate; mesonotum 



