108 ICHMUMCMHDJJ. 



several white marks or blotches. Abdomen cylindrical, narrower 

 and much longer than the thorax, with two small longitudinal 

 white basal lines and the apical margin of the segments cou- 

 colorous, that of the central ones being testaceous ; terebra shorter 

 than half the body. Wings greyish and 21 millim. in expanse ; 

 costa and nervures black ; areolet irregularly tetragonal, with the 

 external less than half the length of the internal uervure. 



Length 13 millim. 



The description of the head as white is misleading, and no one 

 appears to have recognised this species since it was first brought 

 forward, although Motschulsky refers to it as occurring in Ceylon 

 (Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, 1863, p. 30). Walker says (Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. 1860, p. 306) that "this species is erroneously named 

 Cryptus allripktus in the list of Ceylon insects lately published in 

 Sir F. Tennent's work on Ceylon." But Smith's Cryptus is only 

 recorded from Celebes, and is probably distinct : nor do I find 

 such an insect in either of Sir J. E. Tennent's works on the 

 subject. 



L. albopicta is probably not an uncommon species throughout 

 India, where it extends from Ceylon (Dr. Thwaites) to an altitude 

 of 6000 feet in the Khasi Hills of Assam (If. Turner) ; I have 

 seen examples captured in Sikkim in the Himalayas in April 1891 

 {Col. Binrjliam\ and there is one in the Pusa collection from 

 Naduvantum, 7000 ft., in the Nilgiri Hills of Madras (W. Itoivson, 

 May 1904). Cameron, who records it from both Maskeliya and 

 Peradeniya, in Ceylon, in April and August, failed to recognise it 

 as already described, although he refers (Spolia Zeylanica, 1905, 

 p. 69) to Walker's types, which he supposed were not in the 

 British Museum, " otherwise Col. C. T. Bingham would have 

 described the aculeates in his work .... In that work he has 

 merely reproduced Walker ? s descriptions." The male appears 

 much the rarer sex, and the only example I have seen was 

 captured by sweeping in the jungle at Peradeniya in Ceylon, in 

 May 1909'( E. Green). 



Genus XANTHOPIMPLA, Sous. 

 XantJiopimpla. Siutssure, Grand. Hist. Madag., Hym. 1892, pi. xiii. 



GENOTYPE, Pimpla punctata, F. 



Body stout, flavous and more or less profusely black-marked. 

 Head strongly oblique posteriorly ; clvpeus distinctly discrete, 

 apically truncate and closely fitting upon the very large and 

 triangular labrum ; upper mandibular tooth obsolete ; cheeks very 

 short and the eyes strongly emargiuate internally. Apical fiagellar 

 joint not longer than the two penultimate. Mesonoturn not 

 transversely strigose ; metathorax short, with strongly carinate 

 areae, of which the basal is entirely wanting ; spiracles large and 

 linear. Scutellum discally suhpyramidal, and i'oliaceously mar- 

 gined laterally. Abdominal impressions transverse and, at the 



