136 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 



fourth segments closely and strongly punctured, the furrows crenu- 

 lated. Areolet small, oblique, triangular, shortly appendiculated. 



The occiput is immaculate, except that the ocellar black spot 

 slightly projects into it- Pleurae impunctate. Ovipositor as long 

 as the hind tarsi. 



In Professor Krieger's work on Xanthopimpla this species would 

 come in near X. splendens. Cf. Bericht d. Naturf. Ges. zu 

 Leipzig, 1898, 69. 



50. — Xanthopimpla kandyensis, sp. nov. 



Yellow ; the ocellar region, the mark longer than broad, three 

 almost continuous marks on the mesonotum at the base, the central 

 placed more in advance than the others, longer than broad, transverse 

 at the base, rounded behind, the lateral longer compared with the 

 width, more irregular, slightly incised in the middle at the base, 

 rounded and narrowed at the apex ; two irregular, shghtly oblique 

 marks, narrowed on the inner side, on the first segment ; two large 

 marks, broader than long, with the sides rounded, on the third ; 

 two somewhat similar ones on the fifth, but broader, more slender 

 compared with the length, and two similar but larger (the largest of 

 all) on the seventh and two marks on the base of the metanotum, 

 broader than long, transverse behind, rounded at the apex, black. 

 Antennae black, the flagellum brownish, the scape yellow below. 

 Wings clear hyaline, the nervures and stigma black, ?. 



Length 1 1 mm. ; terebra 4 mm. 



Kandy, July. 



Face and clypeus closely, distinctly, but not very strongly punc- 

 tured. Thorax smooth and shining. The areola on metanotum 

 broader than long, slightly obliquely narrowed from the apex to the 

 base ; the lateral arese are of almost the same width, the outer side 

 obliquely narrowed ; following them is an area which becomes 

 obliquely narrowed from the base on the inner to the apex on the 

 outer. Basal two segments of abdomen smooth, the others closely 

 but not strongly punctured ; the furrows closely striated. 



The occiput has no black. 



Allied to X. punctata, F. 



51. — Xanthopimpla parva, sp. nov. 



Pallid yellow, a triangular mark enclosing the ocelli , an irregular 

 transverse line on the base of mesonotum, with ragged edges, a mark 

 at the base of the scutellum, two marks, narrowed from the outer to 

 the inner side, on the base of the metanotum, and marks, broader 

 than long, on the first, third, and following segments, black. Legs 

 coloured like the body, two small marks on the hind trochanters, a 



