130 ICHNEUMON 1DJE. 



.the face rugosely, and the base of the clypeus sparsely, punctate ; 

 ocellar region triangularly black; occiput immaculate flavous. 

 Thorax with the notauli extending to shortly beyond the centre 



of the smooth and impunc- 

 tate mesonotum ; all pleurae 

 im punctate ; a broad and 

 irregularly trilobate band 

 across the base of the meso- 

 notum between the radices, 

 a large basally curved trans- 

 verse mark extending to the 

 scutellar fovea, and a broad 

 and centrally constricted 

 basal metanotal band, black ; 

 metathorax with the areola 

 large, basally incomplete, 

 ig. 28.Aanthopimpla taprobanica, Cam. apically truncate, longer than 



broad, and laterally angled 



sightly beyond its centre ; external areae laterally roundly curved 

 and externally broader ; " the second large, broad, oblique, of equal 

 width throughout ; the apical lateral area triangular ; the apex on 

 the outer side, the upper angle longer than the lower/' Scutellum 

 roundly convex, with its lateral carina? not very stout. Abdomen 

 flavous, with the black markings thus : first segment with two 

 large oblique central marks which are dilated in the centre at the 

 base ; second with a small oblique mark which is obliquely con- 

 stricted basally and apically ; third with a large broad band which 

 is irregularly constricted laterally and slightly incised at both 

 base and apex ; fourth immaculate ; fifth with two large broad 

 bands which are externally rounded ; penultimate with a broad 

 band on its basal half ; apical with two marks. Basal segment 

 distinctly longer than apically broad, smooth, with only some 

 central punctures ; second to fourth segments closely and strongly 

 punctate, with crenulate incisions ; terebra as long as the hind 

 tarsi or one-fifth of the body (2 millim.). Leys flavous, with the 

 apex of the intermediate femora and the base of their tarsi, most 

 of the hind trochanters, a broad band on the lower part and 

 extreme apices of their femora, base of their tibia?, and their tarsi 

 almost entirely, black. Wings hyaline, with their apices infumate ; 

 tegula? black-marked ; areolet small, oblique, triangular, and 

 shortly petiolate. 

 Length 10 millim. 

 CBYLON : Kandy (1 E. Green). 



I have examined a female, now in the Oxford Museum, which 

 was captured in Ceylon by Thwaites in 1872. In Prof. Krieger's 

 work on the genus Xanthopimpla (Bericht. d. Xaturf. Ges. zu 

 Leipzig^ 1899, p. 69) this species is said to be most closely allied 

 +o his A. splendens. 



