CALLIEPHIALTES. 



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31 (30) Abdominal segments elongate; terebra 



often longer than body 



32 (1) Nervellus of hind wing intercepted dis- 



tinctly below its centre (antefurcal). 



33 (44) Abdominal segments not triangularly 



impressed. 



34 (35) Apical angles of segments acute and 



prominent; all wings with at least 

 their apical margin deeply clouded . . 



35 (34) Apical angles of segments obtuse ; at 



most apex of fore wing clouded. 



36 (41) Areolet entire. 



37 (40) Areolet not pentagonal. 



38 (39) Eyes internally emarginate ; face cen- 



trally carinate 



39 (38) Eyes not emarginate ; nor face centrally 



carinate 



40 (37) Areolet pentagonal 



41 (36) Areolet wanting. 



42 (43) Notauli apical and superficial; wings 



entirely hyaline 



43 (42) Notauli deeply impressed and entire ; 



wings infurnately fasciated , 



44 (33) Abdominal segments triangularly and 



deeply impressed. 



45 (46) Areolet petiolate and entire 



46 (45) Areolet entirely wanting. 



47 (48) Front tibiae bicalcarate ; abdomen nor- 



mally punctate 



48 (47) Front tibise unicalcarate ; abdomen 



longitudinally striate 



EPHIALTES, Schr., 

 [p. 177. 



HEMIPIMPLA, Sauss., 

 [p. 186. 



[p. 194. 

 PHILOPSYCHE, Cam., 



[p. 195. 

 3, Fb'rs 



EXERISTES, Fb'rst., 



MIOPHATNTJS, Cam., 



[p. 204. 



POLYSPHINCTA, 



[Grav., p. 205. 



CJENOPIMPLA, Cam., 



[p. 208. 



GLYPTOPIMPLA, gen. 

 [nov., p. 209. 



GLYPTA, Grav., 



[p. 210. 



APOPHUA, gen. nov., 

 [p. 213. 



Genus CALLIEPHIALTES, Ashm. 

 Calliephialtes, Ashmead, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxiii, 1900, p. 54. 



GENOTYPE, Pimpla xanihothorax, Ashm. 



Head broadly baccate behind the eyes, which in <3 are not 

 distinctly emarginate internally. Third to fifth antennal joints 

 not externally serrate. Mesonotum not transversely strigose ; 

 metathoracic spiracles small and quite circular. Abdomen sub- 

 parallel-sided and not centrally explanate, with the anterior 

 segments not more strongly sculptured than the posterior ; second 

 segment of $ longer than broad ; terebra longer than tbe body. 

 Hind tarsi of $ with the apical joint longer than the penultimate, 

 and the claws strongly lobate basally. Wings with the nervelet 

 wanting ; and the first recurrent of lower wings intercepted in 

 the centre. 



Range. United States, Sikkim. 



But a single species has hitherto been ascribed to this genus, 

 Pimpla xanthothorax, Ashm. (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1890, p. 446), 

 and that is described only in the female sex. It is, consequently, 



