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66. Xanthopimpla fasciata, Krieg. 



Xanthopimpla fasciata, Krieger, Ber. Nat. Ges. Leipzig, 1899, p. 92 



<5 2 . Head immaculate flavous ; face normally and evenly 

 convex, a little longer than broad, somewhat closely and not very 

 coarsely punctate ; basal half of the clypeus more finely punctate 

 than the face, and its apex rounded. Antennae infuscate, beneath 

 ferruginous, with the scape flavous. Thorax flavous ; mesonotum 

 finely and diffusely punctate, with a discal fascia composed of 

 three spots, and another at the base, black ; notauli reaching the 

 centre and deeply impressed; mesopleurae glabrous, punctate 

 anteriorly and below, with no considerable intumescence ; nieta- 

 notuin basally black throughout and more broadly at the sides ; 

 areola large, hexagonal, a little broader than long, extending to 

 the centre of the disc and emitting costulae nearly from its 

 centre ; external areas small ; dentiparal very slightly constricted 

 internally. Scutellum strongly convex and vertically rounded. 

 Abdomen flavous, with segments one, three, five, and seven black- 

 banded, in 2 the fifth segmental band centrally wanting; basal 

 segment hardly longer than apically broad, with the carinse ex- 

 tending beyond the coarsely punctate centre ; second segment 

 coarsely and diffusely, the following gradually more closely and 

 finely, punctate ; 6 with a transverse row of six punctiform black 

 dots on the second, and the sixth segment with black markings ; 

 terebra black and a little shorter. than the hind tarsi. Legs flavous, 

 with the base of the hind trochanters, of their tibiae, and the 

 apices of their femora externally, black ; apical joint of hind, or 

 in J posterior, tarsi blackish. Wings hyaline, with their external 

 margin infuscate ; tegulae black-marked ; uervures and stigma 

 black, and costa flavous. 



Length 10 millim. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills. 



This species is certainly very closely allied to X. trifasciata, Sm., 

 in the conformation of the inetathoracic areola and in the abdominal 

 markings ; but it has the central lobe of the mesouotum entire and 

 not sulcate, the fasciae of the metanotum and basal segment entire 

 throughout, etc. It was described by Krieger from a single 

 example of each sex. 



67. Xanthopimpla nursei, Cam. 



(?) Pimpla punclata, var. 1, Vollenhoven, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1879, 



p. 143(2). 

 Xanthopimpla nursei, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 



xvii, 1907, p. 592 (2). 

 X. maculifrons, Cameron,* Journ. Bombay Nat. flist. Soc. xvii, 



1907, p.' 591, 2 (nee Cam. Jour. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc. 1903, p. 138, 

 $) 



J 2 . A flavous species, with the legs wholly immaculate, but 

 with the thorax black-marked, and with two black spots on each 



