XANTHOPIMPLA. 



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concolorous one at the base ; mesopleuras sparsely and somewhat 

 strongly punctate anteriorly and below, with the sulci and 

 intumescence distinct ; metanotum with an elongate black spot 

 in the external arese ; areola small and subquadrate, strongly con- 

 stricted basally, where it is but half the breadth of the apex ; 

 dentiparal are triangular, anteriorly double their external length. 

 Scutellum transverse, conical and vertically rounded. Abdomen 

 diffusely and not strongly punctate, flavous, with two spots in the 

 centre of each of the six basal segments, and a laterally abbreviated 

 basal fascia on the seventh and eighth, black ; basal segment half 

 as long again as apically broad, with the carinae extending beyond 

 its centre. Legs flavous, with an elongate mark on either side of 

 the hind femora near their apices, the base of their tibiae, and the 

 first and last joints of the posterior tarsi, black. Wings distinctly 

 infumate-hyaline, with the apical margin obscurely darker ; 

 nervures and stigma infuscate ; costa and half the tegular flavous, 

 the latter partly black. 



Length 14 millim. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills. 



Krieger had seen but a single male of this species, which is 

 unknown to me. 



74. Xanthopimpla appendicularis, Cam. 



Pimpla appendimlaris, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 160 ($). 

 ?Pimpla punctata, var. 2, Vollenhoven, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1879, 

 p.l43(c?). 



$ . Flavous ; small mesonotal marks, and apices of the hind 

 tibia3, black ; wings fulvo-hyaline, with the stigma infuscate red 

 and the nervures infuscate. " Head yellow, except the ocellar 

 region, which is black ; face closely punctured ; the clypeus 



smooth on the obliquely 

 depressed apex, the base 

 obscurely punctured. An- 

 tennae longer than the 

 body, black ; the scape 

 yellow, the base of the 

 flagellum brownish be- 

 neath at the base. Meso- 

 notum closely punctured 

 at the base ; the raised 

 central part at the base 

 bordered by distinct fur- 

 rows ; at the base of the 

 tegula there is a mark, 

 T- 27. broader than long, fol- 



Xanthopimpla appendicularis, Cam. lowed in the middle by 



a narrower and longer 



one, the whole forming an almost continuous line ; median 

 segment [inetathorax] smooth ; the base between the keels 



