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ICHNETJMONIDJE. 



I have seen a small collection of nine specimens of this species, 

 taken by Mackenzie at Chapra, in Bengal ; and one from Dacca, 

 in the same province, on the llth of January, 1906. The 

 type is in the Pusa collection, where also I have seen a J from 

 Jabalpur, in the Central Provinces, and two others bred in 

 Eastern Bengal from the Pyralid, Cnaphalocrocis m2tnoltf, Guen., 

 together with a $ bred from the Hesperid, Parnara mathias, P., 

 at Palur in Madras. Mr. Wickwar took a $ at Mankulam, in 

 Cylon, during November 1908, and Mr. Baly presented one to 

 the National Collection from "India" in 1851. 



63. Xanthopimpla pedator, F. 



Ichneumon pedator, Fabricius Syst Ent. 1775, p. 828; id, Spec. 

 Insect 1781, p. 429; id., Mant. Insect. 1787, p. 264; Gmelm, 

 Linn Syst. Nat. 1790, p. 2698; Christ, Naturg. 1791, p, 364; 

 Olivier, Encycl. Me"th. viii, 1792, p. 183 ; Fabncius, Ent. Syst. 11, 



Pimpla pedator, Fabricius, Piez. 1804, p. 114. 



Pimpla lepcha, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 163 ( $). 



d $ . A strongly punctate, flavous species, with the thorax 

 and abdomen black-spotted. Head posteriorly declivous from 

 the eyes, with the occiput de- 

 planate, glabrous, black below 

 throughout and distinctly bor- 

 dered ; the centre of the concave 

 frons, and the ocelli, black ; face 

 strongly and deeply punctate 

 and dull, apically indistinctly 

 discrete from the transverse and 

 apically truncate clypeus, which 

 is surmounted by the elongately 

 exserted and triangular labrum ; 

 mandibles somewhat small, apic- 

 ally nigrescent and acuminate, 

 with the lower tooth the 

 longer ; cheeks obsolete, eyes 

 very strongly emarginate next 



Fig. 25. Xanthopimpla pedator, 



the scrobes. Antennae a little shorter than the body, black, with 

 the extreme apex rufescent and the scape flavous beneath. 

 TJtorax stout and broad before the wings ; flavous, with three 

 oblong dots across the disc of the glabrous mesonotum, another 

 before the scutellum and one in the external areae, black ; meso- 

 sternum strongly and deeply punctate, notauli short and broad ; 

 upper metathoracic areas very strongly carinate, with the basal 

 area wanting ; areola quadrate, apically truncate and emitting 

 the costulse a little behind its centre ; petiolar area glabrous and 

 entire ; metathorax short, with the spiracles large and linear. 

 Scutellum flavous, centrally subpyramidal and narrowly bordered 

 throughout in both sexes. Abdomen flavous, not strongly shining 



