LISSOPIMPLA. 



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Fig. 24. 



Lissopimpla albomcta, Walk. 



narrow vertex, and the centre of the concave frons, black ; scrobes 

 glabrous and large ; face distinctly though not deeply punctate 

 throughout, longitudinally tricarinate ; clypeus less than half the- 

 length of the face, broadly rounded at the base and apex, a little 

 shorter than the exserted and conical labrum ; mandibles with the 

 teeth minute and blackish, their base not broader than the length 

 of the cheeks ; eyes somewhat deeply 

 emarginate next the scrobes. An- 

 tennae setaceous and very slender,, 

 black, with the scape, and in <$ 

 nagelhtm, red beneath ; eighth to the 

 twelfth flagellar joints of 5 pure 

 white ; joints not nodulose. TJiorax 

 black, with the whole sternum,, 

 large spots on the meso- and meta- 

 pleurse, elongate callosities before and 

 beneath the radix, a transverse line 

 below the hind wings, basal carina& 

 of the scutellum and postscutellum,. 

 and the three metathoracic spines, 

 pale stramineous ; notauli deeply im- 

 pressed and extending to the disc; 

 metanotum trans-strigose through- 

 out, apophyses large and obtuse in 



2 and subobsolete in d 1 ; petiolar area subglabrous and basally 

 produced into a large and stout spine ; lateral costa distinct, 

 spiracles elongate and very large. Scutellum of J white. 

 Abdomen nitidulous and entirely glabrous, stramineous, with the 

 base of all the segments broadly black ; the first distinctly longer 

 than apically broad, with the deplanate basal carinse pale and not 

 extending beyond the centre ; the following segments obliquely 

 incised at their basal angles ; anus and the strongly plicate venter 

 pale ; terebra exactly half the length of the abdomen, spicula red 

 and the hardly pilose valvular black. Leys entirely ochreous, with 

 the c? hind tarsi alone infuscate ; claws large, curved but not 

 lobate ; hind femora distinctly dentate below at their apical third; 

 front tibiae subintumescent. Wirn/s normal and hyaline ; radix 

 and tegulse flavous, costa piceous, and the stigma ferruginous ; 

 areolet subsessile, obliquely triangular and emitting the recurrent 

 uervure beyond its centre ; radius strongly curved above the- 

 areolet; first recurrent of lower wings postfurcal and emitting 

 the nervellus from its junction with the median nervure. 

 Length 8-14 millim. 



I had drawn up the above description before seeing the type 

 of "Walker's species in the British Museum ; it is undoubtedly 

 synonymous with L. rvfipes, Cam., and was originally described 

 as : Shining and black, with the underside red. Head white,, 

 with a flavous anterior stripe, eyes internally emarginate next 

 the scrobes , palpi white. Antennae elongate and slender, black, 

 with white band before their centre; scape red. Thorax with 



