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59. Xanthopirapla tigris, Kriey. (Plate I, fig. 5.) 



Xanthopimpla tiyris, Krieger, Ber. Nat. Ges. Leipzig, 1899, p. 75 



(c?2). 



Pimpla curvimaculata, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 158 (c?). 



$ . Very like X. trifasciata, Sm., but with black abdominal 

 bands. Head very short, flavous, with the vertical occiput 

 centrally, and the ocellar region, black ; frons centrally elevated, 

 with the scrobes large and reaching the vertex ; face parallel- 

 sided, laterally subprominent and evenly punctate throughout ; 

 clypeus with labrum nearly circular, and slightly convex basally ; 

 mandibles elongate-triangular, apically infuscate, with the lower 

 tooth cylindrical and much the longer ; cheeks obsolete and eyes, 

 strongly emarginate next the scrobes. Antennae subfiliform,. 

 almost thicker towards their apices and as long as the body, 

 infuscate, with the scape stramineous beneath ; flagellum ferru- 

 ginous at the base and extreme apex, with the joints elongate 

 but hardly nodulose apically. Thorax nitidulous and obsoletely 

 punctate ; notauli distinct, but the mesonotum convex between 

 them, with a band composed of three black spots across its 

 disc, of which the exterior coalesce basally with a prescutellar 

 black spot ; mesosternum punctate and basally produced tri- 

 angularly between the intermediate coxae ; metathorax with very 

 indistinct areas ; areola wanting apically throughout ; petiolar 

 area basally weak, with no apophyses ; an oblique black spot in 

 the external arese ; spiracles linear and oblique. Scutellum flavous, 

 convex, with a broadly elevated lateral border on either side. 

 Abdomen flavous and distinctly shining, longitudinally and con- 

 fluently punctate ; a spot in centre of the two basal segments, of 

 which the first is usually transverse, a curved band on the third 

 and fifth, a straight one at the base of the seventh, and a dot on 

 either side of the fourth, sixth and often eighth segments, black ; 

 basal segment glabrous, with inconspicuous carina3, the following 

 not very strongly transverse, deeply impressed before their not 

 very shining apices, with tubercles wanting, their basal angles 

 obliquely incised and the eighth segment discally emarginate ; 

 terebra one-third the length of the abdomen. Legs as in X. tri- 

 fasciata, but with the whole apical joint of the hind tarsi black. 

 Wings also identical, but witli the recurrent nervure emitted 

 slightly before the apex of the areolet. 



Length 12-15 millim. 



SIKKIM, iv. 91 (BingTiam) ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Rotlmey, 

 Krieger}. 



I had at first considered this 5 as no more than a colour 

 variety of X. trifasciata, but the anteriorly subconvex mesonotum. 

 broader scutellar border, and more nitidulous abdomen, with longer 

 segments, render it sufficiently distinct, without considering the 

 more profuse cephalic, thoracic and abdominal black markings. 



Cameron, who knew only the <3 , indicates it as differing 

 from the $ merely in having the metathoracic areae for the 



