104 ICIINEUMONID.i:. 



circular flavous dot in the apical angles of the six basal segments ; 

 first segment nearly twice as long as apically broad, glabrous and 

 shallowly sulcate to near its apex, with the prominent spiracles a 

 little before its centre ; second subquadrate and tlie following 

 transverse; terebra stout and slightly longer than half the 

 abdomen. Leys clear red, with the posterior coxse and trochanters 

 entirely, and the hind tarsi apically, black. Winys as in the 

 preceding species. 



Lenyth 10-25 millhn. 



The great variation in size is remarkable, and individuals of the 

 above variable dimensions, together with intermediate gradations, 

 are represented in the British Museum. 



I have drawn the above description of this abundantly distinct 

 species from a single male in the collection of the Oxford University 

 Museum, which is simply labelled " India." Excepting its lack of 

 a distinct petiolar metathoracic area, it might be placed in Allo- 

 thtronia, Ashm. (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1900, p. 57) ; but if such 

 were the case, I should have no hesitation in synonvmising that 

 genus with Echthromorplia, from which its author so inadequately 

 distinguishes it. 



This is a common species throughout the Australasian region, 

 well known from both Australia and Tasmania; there are 

 examples in the British Museum collection from Queensland, 

 New South Wales (Sydney, &c.), Victoria, King Island, Tasmania 

 (Hobart, &c.), and a single female "bred from larva of large 

 Bombyx"; this is the first intimation we have had respecting its 

 hosts, and its detection in India which certainly needs con- 

 firmation extends its known distribution some thousands of 

 miles. 



Genus HABROPIMPLA, Cam. 

 Habrojritnpla, Cameron, Mauch. Mem. 1900, p. 97. 



GENOTYPE, H. Mineata, Cam. 



Head broader than long ; clypeus glabrous and impunctate, 

 basally discrete and apically obliquely depressed ; eyes slightly 

 emarginate internally ; mandibles bidentate, with the teeth of 

 equal length. Apical flagellar joints subdilated apically. Meso- 

 rotum nitidulous, with the notauli obsolete ; metanotum glabrous, 

 with neither area? nor carinae, its disc transversely strigose ; meta- 

 pleurae aciculate and apically stoutly carinate ; spiracles large and 

 linear, of equal breadth throughout, rounded at both extremities, 

 and situated but slightly before the centre. Scutellum subde- 

 planate, longer than broad, and subconstricted apically, glabrous, 

 with the deeply discreted postscutellum impunctate. Abdomen 

 smooth, nitidulous and subimpunctate ; central segments obliquely 

 impressed laterally; the first basally impressed and tuberculat'e 

 above the spiracles beyond the centre ; gastrocoali of the second 

 oblique, narrow, glabrous, and extending slightly beyond the 



