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obsoletely punctate and apically truncate. Antenna black and 

 basally flavous beneath. Thorax flavous, with the pronotuin 

 glabrous ; inesonotum subglabrous and very obsoletely punctate, 

 with three black marks forming a discal transverse band, the 

 central confluent with another before the scutellum ; notauli short 

 and shallow ; mesopleural sulci deep and longitudinal, with a 

 distinct intumescence above them ; metathorax immaculate, with 

 conical tubercles before the spiracles ; areae complete, with the 

 areola subhexagonal, nearly twice as broad as long and emitting 

 the costulae beyond its centre; deritiparal areae quadrate and 

 internally constricted. Scutellum conical. Abdomen coarsely and 

 diffusely punctate, with the two basal segments glabrous and 

 uitidulous and the anus smoother ; flavous, with two black sub- 

 quadrate spots on the third, fourth, fifth and sometimes the first 

 segments, and a short fascia on either side of the seventh ; second 

 and sixth segments immaculate ; terebra black and as long as the 

 four basal hind tarsal joints. Legs flavous, with the hind femora 

 bimaculate apically, the extreme base of their tibiae, of the pos- 

 terior metatarsi, and their onycbii, black ; hind troehanters 

 immaculate. Wings flavescent-hyaline, with their apices distinctly 

 testaceous and externally piceous ; costa basally flavescent ; stigma 

 and nervures entirely, and the tegulae marked with, black. 



Length 14-16 millim. 



? c? Head and abdomen gamboge -yellow, with the thorax and 

 legs rufescent ; head and mesothorax normally spotted, metathorax 

 immaculate ; seven pairs of abdominal spots, gradually increasing 

 in size ; the seventh segment and front legs immaculate ; hind 

 legs with a spot on either side of femora and another at the base 

 of the trochanters piceous ; base of their tibiae and the whole of 

 the tarsi black ; areolet pyramidal and subpetiolate. 



Length 11 millim. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills. 



Krieger describes this species from three females, and says it 

 differs from his X.japponica mainly in the distinction of the black 

 markings. Van Vollenhoven's doubtfully synonymous male is re- 

 corded from Ambarawa, in Java. The species is unknow r n to me. 



73. Xanthopimpla pardalis, Krieg. 



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

 p.90(rf). 



d . Head flavous, with a mark in the centre of the frons 

 confluent with the concolorous ocelli, and the occiput, black ; 

 face a little longer than broad, distinctly pyramidally prominent, 

 coarsely and irregularly punctate, and laterally subeievated ; 

 clypeus finely and sparsely punctate. Antennae black, with the 

 base flavous beneath. Thorax flavous; mesonotum coarsely and 

 dispersely punctate, with the central lobe glabrous and nitidulous ; 

 notauli occupying a third of the disc ; three marks forming a band 

 across the disc black, the central basally confluent with a fourth 



