124 ICHNEUMONID.E. 



pulvilli, black ; the terebra is fully half the abdominal length 

 (terebra nearly 4 millim., abdomen 7 inillim.). They are both 

 old specimens, labelled respectively " India " and " Bombay." 



TO. Xanthopimpla tibialis, sp. n. 



$ . A flavous species with the thorax, and base and apex of 

 hind tibiae, black-spotted ; the first and every alternate abdominal 

 segment with a subcircular spot on either side, as well as an apical 

 transverse fascia on the third segment ; the antennae pale and the 

 terebra longer than half the abdomen. 



Length 9 millim., $ . 



BENGAL : Chapra (Mackenzie). 



Type in the Pusa collection. 



Extremely similar in conformation to X. punctata, but at once 

 known from it by the distinct apical fascia of the third abdominal 

 segment and the black longitudinal streak on the outer side of the 

 hind tibiae, which extends to the apex from the basal third. It 

 may, perhaps, be a curious variety of X. punctata, but I certainly 

 incline to the belief that it is distinct, though a careful examination 

 has revealed no structural discrepancies between the two species. 

 I have seen only the type specimen of this species. 



71. Xanthopimpla punctata, F. 



Ichneumon pttnctatus, Fabricius,* Sp. Ins. 1781, p. 437 ; id., Mant. 



1787, p. 269; id., Ent. Syst. 1793, p. 181 (rf); Grnelin, Linn. 



Syst. Nat. 1790, p. 2710; Olivier, Encycl. Meth. viii, 1792, 



p. 198. 

 Xanthopimpla punctata, Krieger, Ber, Nat. Ges. Leipzig, 1899, 



p. 101($). 



Pimpla ceylonica, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 166 (cJ). 

 Xanthopimpla bnmneciornis (sic), Cameron,* Journ. Str. Br. R. As. 



Soc. 1903, p. 139($). 



d $> . A flavous species, with the thorax and base of hind tibiae 

 black-spotted; the first and every alternate abdominal segment 

 with a subcircular spot on either side ; the antennae inf uscate and 

 the terebra hardly longer than half the abdomen. 



Length 8-12 millim. 



The alternately binotated abdominal segments and apically im- 

 maculate hind tibiae will easily distinguish this species, which in 

 sculpture and general conformation is closely allied to X. pedator, 

 F. ; so closely, in fact, that it is only the constancy of the 

 markings and areolar structure, which I have been enabled to 

 examine through a very long series, that has convinced me that 

 the latter is really a good species. In the thoracic and pedal 

 markings (except that the present never has the femora internally 

 infuscate), in the length of the terebra and the alar neuration, they 

 are identical ; but in the present species the segments are a little 

 more transverse, very distinctly more finely and closely punctate, 

 and the areola is fully twice" as broad as long. There are, as 



