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labelled by him "Pimpla insignata, Smith (var.), ?" which must 

 be a MS. name, though the example is in the National collection ; 

 another $ , also in the British Museum, bears a similar label and 

 was taken by him at Poona, in Bombay, during the following 

 November. L. Tea found one, now in the Genoa Museum, in 

 the Karen Hills, Burma, between May and December 1888, at 

 an altitude of 3000-3700 ft.; and Annandale took two at 

 Balighai and Puri on the Orissa coast, at the end of October 

 1908. In the Calcutta Museum are a dozen specimens of both 

 sexes, very constant inter se, bred froM Actias leto, Dbld., at 

 Darjiling, 6000 ft., taken at Margherita, Assam ; at Hazaribagh, 

 where it has also been bred from Anthercea frithi, Moore, and 

 Telegonus thrax; one is labelled "Pimpla criculce, Type" and two 

 "Parasite that attacks Cricula larva, bred 10th Jan., 1889"; a rf 

 also thus " Darjeeling ; Ichneumon bred from Teleg. thrax. March, 

 1888." I have examined specimens in the National collection 

 from Hong-Kong, Singapore, Chusan Island, Sandakan and 

 Tigombong. Dr. Imms has bred this species from the small 

 mulberry silkworm at Mussoori. 



64. Xanthopimpla regina, sp. n. 



<? $ . A strongly punctate, flavous species, with the thorax and 

 abdomen black-spotted. Head posteriorly declivous from the eyes, 

 occiput deplanate, glabrous, black below throughout and distinctly 

 bordered ; the centre of the concave frons and the ocelli black ; 

 face deeply and strongly punctate, not very shining, apically 

 indistinctly discrete from the transverse and apically truncate 

 clypeus ; labrum triangular and fully as long as the clypeus ; 

 mandibles stout, apically nigrescent and acuminate, with the lower 

 tooth the longer ; cheeks obsolete, eyes very strongly emarginate 

 next scrobes. Antenna slightly shorter than the body, black, with 

 the extreme apex rufescent, and the scape externally flavous 

 beneath. TJiorax stout and broad before the wings, flavous, with 

 three oblong dots across the disc of the glabrous mesonotum, 

 another before the scutellum, and small ones in the external areae, 

 black ; mesosternum closely and strongly punctate ; notauli short 

 and broad ; upper metathoracic area? very strongly carinate, with 

 the basal areae wanting ; areola quadrate, apically truncate and 

 emitting the costulae hardly beyond its centre ; petiolar area trans- 

 versely wrinkled at the base, and entire ; metathorax short, with 

 the spiracles large and linear. Scutellum flavous and distinctly 

 bordered throughout ; of J evenly convex and of $ centrally sub- 

 pyramidal. Abdomen flavous, not strongly shining and broadest 

 distinctly behind the centre; second to sixth segments with a 

 subcircular spot, representing the obsolete tubercles, on either 

 side ; basal segment ofj$ with indistinct carinae extending almost 

 to the centrally elevated apex, the c? carinae prominent and 

 terminating in the centre in a small black spot on either side ; 



