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described by Cameron, though very rarely, black markings on the 

 fourth segment, and perhaps more frequently in the d , which is 

 presumably the sex he describes, since he makes no mention of 

 the length of the terebra. 



This species is very certainly the X. punctata of Fabricius and 

 Krieger, and is with equal certainty distinct from that of Van 

 Vollenhoven. It was with considerable satisfaction that I dis- 

 covered the excellent male type of this species in the Bauksian 

 Cabinet, which was presented to the British Museum by the 

 Linnean Society in 1863 and contains all the Banksian insects 

 described by Fabricius in the " Species Insectorum " (cf. Morley, 

 Entom. 1909, p. 136). This specimen I have compared with the 

 types of Pimphi ceylonica and X. brunneicornis, and find that they 

 agree to a remarkable extent for members of the present somewhat 

 variable genus. In all the types the black markings of the fourth 

 segment are much smaller than those of the remainder, while in 

 some of the varieties they are altogether wanting. 



Undoubtedly this is a very abundant and widely distributed 

 species in India. It was redescribed by Cameron from a male, 

 now in the British Museum, taken by Col. J. W. Yerbury at 

 Trincomali, on the north-east coast of Ceylon ; I have seen two 

 males from Colombo, captured in 1902; Bingham has found it in 

 the South Andaman Islands, as well as in Sikkim, in April 1891 

 and 1900; there are several old specimens of both sexes collected 

 at " Dukhun " by Col. Sykes and in Afghanistan by W. Griffith 

 in the National Collection, presented by the Indian Museum 

 in 1879; and in the Pusa collection is a series of some fifty 

 specimens. These last were mainly captured at Chapra, in 

 Bengal, by Mackenzie ; a few at Eaipur and Bilaspur, in the 

 Central Provinces, by G. E. Dutt, in August 1907 ; one or two 

 were taken on grass or while flying at Pusa, in March and October, 

 and a female was bred from a Lepidopterous chrysalis at Surat, in 

 Bombay, on 10th July 1904. There are two males bred at Betul, 

 Central Provinces, and at Lahore, -from the Pyralid, Chilo simplex, 

 Butl. ; together with other specimens from Wara-Seoni, near 

 Balaghat, and from Saidapet and Samalkota, in Madras. Three 

 males in the Calcutta Museum are from Bangalore ; and others 

 from Kushtea, in Bengal, Tenasserim, Sikkim, and Calcutta, taken 

 in September and October. I have examined this species in the 

 National Collection from Amboina, Java (Tjigombong), Singapore, 

 China (Hong-Kong, &c.), Formosa, and Savu in the Philippines. 



72. Xanthopimpla soleata, Krieg. 



Xanthopimpla soleata, Krieger, Ber. Nat. Ges. Leipzig, 1899, p. 82, 



figs. 3, 8, 9, 14($). 



?Pimpla punctata, var. 3, Vollenhoven, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1879, 

 .l43 



. Head flavous, with the frons centrally, ocelli and the 

 ut, black; fac 

 coarsely and stron 



occiput, black; face longer than broad, pyramidally prominent, 

 ly punctate ; clypeus hardly discrete basally, 



