XANTIIOPIMPLA. 123 



This somewhat meagrely described species is probably hardly 

 distinct from X. nursei, but has the hind tibiae basally black and 

 the second segment immaculate. It is unknown to me. 



Van Vollenhoven records this species from several islands in 

 the Malay Archipelago and also probably from Tibet, in which 

 case it almost certainly is to be found in India. 



69. Xanthopimpla kandiensis, Cam. (emend.). 



Xanthopimpla kandyensis, Cameron, Spolia Zeylanica, 1905, p. 136 

 ($) 



$ . A flavous species. Head with the face and clypeus closely 

 distinctly, but not very strongly, punctate ; ocellar region 



cf 



and 



black, occiput immaculate flavous. Antennce of $ black, with the 

 flagellum piceous, and the scape flavous, beneath ; of <$ entirely 

 flavescent. Thorax smooth and nitidulous ; mesonotum with 

 three subcoalescent basal black marks, of which the central 

 extends furthest apically, is longer than broad, basally transverse 

 and rounded behind, the lateral ones are longer compared with 

 their width, more irregular, subincised centrally at their base, 

 rounded and constricted at their apex ; metanotum with two basal 

 black marks, which are broader than long, basally transverse and 

 apically rounded ; areola broader than long, subobliquely con- 

 stricted from apex to base and in <5 apically wanting ; external 

 area? almost equally broad, with the outer side obliquely narrowed; 

 " following them is an area which becomes obliquely narrowed 

 from the base on the inner to the apex on the outer." Abdomen 

 flavous, with black marks thus : first segment with two irregular 

 marks, which are slightly oblique and internally constricted; third 

 with two large marks which are broader than long and laterallv 

 rounded; fifth with two somewhat similar marks which are 

 broader and more slender compared with their length ; seventh 

 with two similar but larger marks which are the largest on the 

 abdomen in $ , though in c? , which also sometimes lias the fourth 

 bimaculate, they are of normal size ; two basal segments smooth, 

 with the remainder closely but not strongly punctate ; incisions 

 closely striate ; terebra fully a third the length of the body 

 (4 millim.). Legs not described. Winc/s clear hyaline, with the 

 nervures and stigma black. 



Length 9-11 millim. 



CEYLON : Kandy, vii. (E. E. Green, type), Colombo, x. and xi. 

 (Wickwar}; BOMBAY. 



Cameron tells us (loc. cit.) that the female is "allied to X.punctata, 

 F.," which he was not able to synonymise with our modern species. 

 The conformation of the areola and the markings of the abdomen, 

 together with the immaculate occiput render it sufficiently distinct : 

 and I have seen two females certainly referable to it in the Oxford 

 University Museum, which have the legs flavous, with only the 

 extreme base of the hind tibias, with the apices of their claws and 



