122 .ICHXEUMOXIDJE. 



of the abdominal segments except the sixth ; the terebra some- 

 what shorter than half the abdomen, and the antennae infuscate. 



Length 9-12 millim. 



UXITED PROVINCES : Dehra Dun (Ind. Mus.) ; SIKKIM, iv.-vi. 

 1900 (Col. Binyham) ; ASSAM: Margherita (Ind. Mus.) ; BENGAL: 

 Calcutta, viii. 01 and x.09 (Ind. Mus.), Pusa, iii.-x. 06 (Pusa 

 coll.), Champaran, ix. 01 (Ind. Mus.), Chapra (A. Mackenzie, Pusa 

 coll.), Kushtea (J. T.Jenkins, Ind. Mus.); CENTRAL PROVINCES: 

 Nagpur (Pusa coll.); BOMBAY: Surat, vii.04 (Pusa coll.), Deesa, 

 vi. 98 and x. 99 (Col. Nurse} ; MADRAS : Naduvantuui, 7000 ft., 

 Nilgiri Hills, v.04( W. Rowson, Pusa coll.). BORNEO (Brit. Mus.). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection, as is also that of X. maculifrons. 



The abdomen is much duller and more finely, closely and 

 granulately punctate than in X. pedator, to which it is extremely 

 closely allied and from which I should have hesitated to dis- 

 tinguish it, did it not combine the much duller abdomen with 

 deeper segmental incisures and entirely flavous legs. I have seen 

 a d (from Sikkim) which probably merits specific rank, but which, 

 in the absence of its $ , I prefer to treat as a variety of this species ; 

 this has, in place of the usual black spot on either side of the 

 abdominal segments, the entire base of all the segments somewhat 

 narrowly black, but I can trace no structural modifications. 

 Van Vollenhoven's female was marked with only two mesonotal 

 spots and was taken at Amboina, in the Moluccas. 



This Ichneumon has been bred at Pusa from the Pvralid moths, 

 Scirpophaya auriflua, Zell., Sylepta deroyata, F., and an undeter- 

 mined species ; from the " Lady's Finger Moth," in Calcutta ; 

 from 5. aurtjffua, in Cbamparan ; from a Plttsia (NocTUiD^:) and 

 from a pupa on Juar millet, Andropoyon (Sorghum) vulyare, at 

 Surat. The chrysalis, from which the last emerged, is in situ in 

 its own cocoon and the parasite came out by a very irregularly 

 gnawed hole in its head. 



68. Xanthopimpla transversalis, Voll. 



Pimnla transversalis, Vollenhoven, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 146 



(<?$): 



Xanthojrimpla transversalis, Krieger, Ber. Nat. Ges. Leipzig, 1899, 

 p. 65. 



c? ? . Rufescent-flavous and not very shining. Head with a 

 triangular black mark on the vertex, and the occiput immaculate. 

 Antenna; ferruginous, infuscate above and basally testaceous 

 beneath. Thorax: mesonotum with a transverse black band 

 which is twice euiarginate basally ; metathorax with two circular 

 black spots ; areola transverse and irregularly hexagonal ; denti- 

 paral areas narrow, oblique and subtriangular. Abdomen pale, with 

 five pairs of oval black spots on the first, the third to fifth, aud the 

 seventh segments ; the apical and second segments immaculate, 

 the latter centrally subelevated and quadrisulcate. Leys fiavous, 

 with the hind tibiae alone basally black. 



Lenyth 9 millim. 



