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strongly infumate apical cloud ; radius strongly sinuate above the 

 entire areolet ; internal cubital nervure straight ; median recurrent 

 of the hind wings strongly postfurcal and emitting the uervellus at 

 its junction with the median nervure. 



Holmgren compares his genus with Theronia and Cameron 

 says (loc. cit.) that in its elongate face, the conformation of the 

 areolet and of the radial nervure, this genus resembles Lissopimpla 

 ( = Xenopimpla, Cam. Manch. Mem. 1898, p. 28); but that the 

 latter differs in having the mesonotum trilobate, the metathorax 

 transversely striate and laterally dentate, the abdomen quite 

 glabrous and the hind femora dentate beneath near their apices. 

 Unfortunately he entirely overlooked the peculiar position of the 

 nervellus, which, I have very little doubt, relates this genus and 

 Lissopimpla closely with Epirliyssa. 



The peculiarly high emission of the nervellus, figured both 

 in 1899 (Manch. Mem. pi. iii, fig. 6) and 1905 (Spol. Zeyl. pi. B, 

 fig. 8) in the case of the typical species, Chnjsopimpla ornatipes, 

 led Krieger to synonymise Cameron's genus with Eclithromorpha, 

 Holmg., a course which is certainly correct ; it received sanction 

 from Cameron himself in 1905. 



Our knowledge of the genus has considerably augmented since 

 Cameron stated (Trans. Nat. Hist. Glasgow, 1885, p. 2u'o) * that 

 its species were confined to the oceanic islands, Ascension, 

 Hawaii and St. Helena ; we now know it from broad tracts of 

 at least Asia, Africa and Australia, though apparently confined to 

 tropical and subtropical latitudes. 



For a full account of the present genus, cf. Prof. Dr. R. Krieger 

 in Mitteilungen aus dem Zool. Museum, Berlin, 1908, pp. 295-344, 

 and my own paper ou the British Museum examples (Eev. Ichn. 

 Brit. Mus. ii, 1913, p. 36). 



Table of Species. 



1 (6) Abdomen broadly testaceous or banded ; 



metathorax glabrous, apophyses 

 wanting. 



2 (3) Metathorax and coxae testaceous ; abdo- 



men mainly pale insidiator, Smith, p. 99. 



3 (2) Mettthorax and coxae black and flavous ; 



abdomen broadly black-banded. 



4 (5) Thorax more or less punctate ; areolet 



distinctly petiolate notulatoria, F., p. 100. 



o (4) Thorax entirely glabrous ; areolet sub- 

 sessile persimilis, Cam., p. 101. 



6 (1) Abdomen black, with pale spots ; meta- 

 thorax strigose, apophyses strong . . intricatoria, F., p. 102. 



* There appears to be little doubt that Eehthromorpha walkeri. Cam. (loc. 

 cit.), the tvpe of which is in the British Museum, may constitute the alternate 

 er of Pimpla agrestorius, Swed. et Gniel., also taken by Sir Joseph Banks and 

 Dr. Coppinger in Tahiti. Cf. Morley, Entom. 1909, p! 135. 



