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ICHXErMONID.I'. 



Thorax with the pro- and nieso-tliorax smooth, with sliort an([ 

 sparse ])ilosity ; ajiex of proiiotum with a citrinous Hne ; meta- 

 thorax closely aud strongly piinctatc, and densely pilose; metanotuiu 

 centrally glabrous. Scnfd/um black. AJ>domeu immaculate, closely 

 and strongly punctate, with densi^ infuscate pubescence ; terebra 

 longer than body (19 millim.). Lerjs red, with the anterior coxa) 

 and trochanters pale Havous ; hind tibiic pale ilavous, \\\t\\ the 

 underside, the apex and a baud before the base black, as also are 

 the posterior tarsi. Wings hyaline, with the stigma and nervures 

 black ; tegulae citrinous ; areolet sessile, emitting the recurrent 

 nervure from the base of its apical third part ; nervelet distinct 

 but minute. 



Length 17 uiillim. 



SiKKiM (Col, C. T. Bingham). 



Type. Location unknown. 



I am not acquainted with this species. 



Genus HEMIPIMPLA, 8ams. 



Ilemipimpla, Saussure, Graudidier's Hist. Madag., Ilym. 189:;?, 



pi. xiii, fig-. 8. 

 EnitIiropi)iq)Ia, Ashniead, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1900, p. 57. 

 7)-ic/iiof?iecif<, Cameron, Jouv. Str. Br. K. As. Soc. 1903, p. 130. 



Geivoiype, II. caffra, Sauss. 



Head very strongly transvei'se and obliquely truncate imme- 

 diately behind the unusually prominent eyes, which are internally 

 but slightly emarginate next the scrobes ; occiput basally bordered ; 

 ocelli elevated upon a common plateau above the level of the 

 concave vertex ; face deplanate and subglabrous, with the clypeus 

 apically emarginate an(l basally but indistinctly discrete ; man- 

 dibles stout, with the upper tooth the longer ; cheelis somewhat 

 shorter than the basal width of the mandibles. Antenna? seta- 

 ceous, apically attenuate and distinctly short. Thorax glabrous ; 

 notauli distinct hi front ; metathorax glabi'ous, with no trace of 

 area?, its spiracles oval and facing towards the apex. Scutellum 

 glabrous and not convex. Abdomen very strongly punctate, with 

 the apical angles of the segments acutely prominent ; transversel}- 

 incised at their apical third, the incision becoming laterally con- 

 fluent with another, rising obhquely from the depressed base of 

 each segment ; terebra stout and not shorter than abdomen, with 

 pilose valvula^. Legs short and not slender ; tarsal claws curved, 

 somewhat small and, in $ , elongately lobate basally ; front cal- 

 caria curved. Wings somewhat narrow and always more or less 

 deeply iufumate ; radius usually sinuate above the oblique areolet, 

 Mhich- emits the recurrent nervure from its apical fourth ; first 

 recurrent of lower wing subopposite and emitting the nervellus 

 from distinctly below its centre. Size large : thorax red ; hind 

 legs concolorous with abdomen. 



Range. South Africa, India, Malay Archipelago. 



