HEiririAiPf-A. IST 



This genus is certainly allied to Kphrrvs in its emargiuate 

 clypeus, lobate $ claws, strongly uneven abdomen, subcircular 

 nietathoraeic spiracles and short anteun;io. Its species are very 

 beautiful {cf. Distant, Nat. in Transvaal, 18!)2, p. 227). 



Ashmead characterised his genus {Joe. (it.) as haviug :— The 

 areolet oblique and rhomboidal : the first recurrent nervure of tho 

 lower wings intercepted very far above its centre ; the tarsal claws 

 lobate strongly at their base, and not pectinate ; the inetathorax 

 smootli, with uo trace of either carintc or arece ; the second to 

 fifth segments with deeply impressed and laterally continuous 

 sulci at both base and apex; and finally, having the clypeus senii- 

 circularly eniarginale at its ai-iex and not discrete from the face at 

 its base. But elsewhere (Jib. cit. p. ')o) he distinctly says that the 

 clypeus is discrete from the face, and it is entirely upon the sepa- 

 ration of the clypeus that llemlpimpla diifers from Eriitliropimpl'U 

 since in all other particulars, such as the glabrous metanotuni, 

 elongate spiracles, terebra longer than abdomen aiul basally lobate 

 claws, it very perfectly agrees therewith. It is obvious, 1 think, 

 that Ashmead diil not really know Hemrpimpla, and equally 

 obvious that his table is herein defective. Cameron lias further 

 complicated the matter by redescribing the genus under the nauu; 

 T'r'ichiothevus. 



The superficial resemblauce of some of the following species to 

 the Braconid genus Mi/osoma, found in the Malay Archipelago and 

 probably in India, is very remarkable.* 



Table of Sj^eeies. 



1 (4) Abdomen testaceous, closely and eon- 



tluentlv punctate, at least discally. 



2 {■>) Basal segment distinctly punctate and ex- 



cai'inate ; alar inhnnescence broader and 



darker trstacca, Cam., p. 18^*. 



;] (2) Basal .segment inipunctati" and ,-^tvongly 



bicarinate; alar inruniesccncf narrower 



and i)alfr cafra, Sauss., ]>. IS<>. 



4 (I) Abdomen black, very deeply and somewhat 



s])arsely jtunctate tin-ongliout. 

 n (()) Stigma black and tin' Avhol<^ wings ni- 



"lescent niyosa, de G., p. l!H). 



G (5) Stigma and wings, except apices of latter. 



testacectus . . .". ariana. Cam., p. 102. 



* It has been suggested (Journ. Sti-. Br. Eoyal Asiatic Soc. 1903, ]). I'M) 

 tnat Villi j)l(i vifidipe/iu/s, Smith (Proe. Linn. Soc., Zool. 18(>0, euppl. p. 64) cT. 

 described from Celebes, probably belonps to the present genus ; no doubt can 

 remain tliat this is the ease, arid but little can be entertained that it i.« tho 

 alternate sex of Cameron's TricI/iotliecKx riijiccps. I liave not entered it in 

 the synonymy, however, since I have had the opportunity of examining only 

 the single example, labelled " P/rn/i/a vin'dtpeinu's, var. a ; Mak[assar]." ni 

 the National Collection, and not the type, which is to be sought in the Wilson 

 Saunders Collection at Oxford. 



