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wider than long on either side of it, the basal being the larger, the 

 keel bordering it being broadly rounded at the apex ; the apical 

 are widest on the outer side ; there is only one larger area on the 

 apical slope, on the sides is a large spiracular area, followed by a 

 much smaller, somewhat triangular one at the apex. 



48. — Echthromorpha ornatipes, Cam. 

 Plate B, fig. 8. 



This species (described from the Khasia Hills, Assam) has been 

 taken at Peradeniya by Mr. Green. 



49. — Xanthopimpla taprobanica, up. nov. 



Pale yellow, a triangular mark enclosing the ocelli, a broad band, 

 irregularly trilobate — one on each lobe — across the base of the meso- 

 notum at the tegulse, a mark on the tegulae continuous with it, a 

 large transverse mark, roundly curved at the base and extending 

 on to the scutellar depression, a broad band, narrowed in the centre, 

 on the base of the metanotum, two large oblique marks on the centre 

 of the first abdominal segment, dilated in the centre at the base, a 

 small oblique mark, obliquely narrowed at the base and apex on the 

 second, a large broad band on the third, irregularly narrowed laterally 

 and slightly incised in the middle at the base and apex, two large 

 broad bands, rounded on the outer side on the fifth, a broad band on 

 the basal half of the penultimate and two marks on the last, black. 

 Legs coloured like the body ; the middle knees, base of middle 

 tarsi, the greater part of hinder trochanters, a broad band on the 

 lower part of the hind femora, apex of femora narrowly above, base 

 of tibiae, and the tarsi (the middle joints paler in colour), black. 

 Wings hyaline, their apex with a fuscous cloud, ?. 



Length 10 mm.; terebra 2 mm. 



Kandy. 



Face rugosely punctured ; the upper part of the clypeus sparsely 

 punctured. Mesonotum smooth, impunctate ; parapsidal furrows 

 reaching shortly beyond the middle. Scutellum roundly convex, 

 the keels not very stout. Areola large, open at the base, transverse 

 at the apex, longer than broad, the sides angled shortly behind the 

 middle ; the basal lateral area wider on the outer side, the sides 

 roundly curved ; the second large, broad, oblique, of equal width 

 throughout ; the apical lateral area triangular ; the apex on the 

 outer side, the upper angle longer than the lower. First segment 

 of abdomen in length clearly longer than its width at the apex, 

 smooth, except for some punctures in the middle, the second to 



