'208 ic'iineumonii);e. 



CeyloX : Pini(];ilu()y;i {E. E. Green). 



Type in the United States National i\ruseuin. 



Ashmead tlms shortly describes a single female, reared from an 

 amspecified spider at Pundaluoya, in Ceylon ; he adds that \t is 

 type No. 32()G in the United States National Musenm, which is a 

 iieeessary observation, considering the pancity of his description, 

 I have, however, seen a single female agreeing in every way with 

 such points as are indicated ; it was bred from a larva preying 

 •externally upon a spider in Ceylon by Mr. Green, who also sent 

 me the very slight cocoon of brown strands on a grass stem, 

 whence the imago emerged. It is a similar species, especially in 

 the remarkable distance at which the second recurrent is emitted 

 from the obsolete transverse submarginal nervure, to P. tuberosa, 

 Grav., though much smaller, with the abdomen less linear, the 

 rterebra shorter and the legs paler. 



Genus C^NOPIMPLA, Cam. 



C(ennphnpla, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1900, p. 99. 



(?) Neopimpla, Ashmead, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1900, p. 56. 



Genotype, C. ruJicolUs, Cam. 



Clvpeus not discrete from face; mandibles unidentate, with 

 the tooth acuminate and somewhat elongate. Notauli distinct 

 and deeply impressed ; metatborax clearly and completely areated ; 

 areola longer than broad and laterally oblique at its base ; 

 spiracles small and circular ; metapleura) strongly rugose ; meso- 

 notuni finely trans-strigose anteriorly. Scutelhnn slightly convex, 

 ruo-osely punctate, and apically constricted, with its side carinate. 

 Abdomen longitudinally striate, broadly and transversely im- 

 pressed, with the fifth segment centrally carinate; basal segment 

 laterallv carinate above and below, centrally elevated and bicarinate, 

 ^witli the spiracles exactly in the centre, subimpuuctate. Legs 

 normal, with the claws simple, the front tarsi basally incised, and 

 the liind trochanters and tibial bases white. Wings transversely 

 bifasciate ; external nervure of areolet wanting, the interior 

 -short ; the internal cubital sharply and obliquely sloped before 

 areolet ; basal and apical abscissae of radius oblique ; basal 

 .nervure pellucid ; stigma large. 

 llancje. Assam ; ? Africa. 



" A distinct and somewhat isolated genus. It is easily known 

 by the absence of an areolet, by the parapsidal furrows, and by 

 the areolated metatborax. Its general coloration, form, and 

 -spotted wings, give it the appearance of a //t'^yHV^-Z^s " (Cameron, 

 I. c). Neopimpla, as shortly diagnosed in Ashmead's table (I c), 

 appears to differ in nothing but its oval or elliptic metathoracic 

 spiracles; the terebra is shorter than the abdomen and the 

 areolet wanting ; the eyes are nude and internally hardly 

 emarginate ; it is recorded from Africa, but the species are not 

 ■ described. As remarked above, the type strongly resembles 



