XANTIIOPI1MPLA. 



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The female is in every way analogous and hardly larger ; the 

 mesonotal fascia is discal, and the scutellum is not preceded by a 

 black mark ; the fourth abdominal segment is immaculate ; the 

 notauli are sufficiently distinct apically, though very short ; and 

 the terebra is as long as the basal segment. 



CEYLON : Peradeniya, Haragama, Kandy (E. E. Green). 



81. Xanthopimpla binghami, Cam. 



Xanthopimpla binghami, Cameron,* Zeits. Hym.-Dip. 1908, p. 39 

 ($,as o')- 



$ . Flavous. Head with the ocellar region triangularly black ; 

 face densely white- pilose and closely, but not strongly, punctate ; 

 frons and vertex smooth and glabrous. Antennae with the flagellum 

 piceous beneath and black above. Thorax glabrous ; mesonotum 

 with a broad and somewhat irregular black band between the 

 tegulse, which it does not quite reach ; notauli deeply impressed ; 



metanotum laterally cari- 

 nate, with the lateral basal 

 area} black, broader than 

 long, with the sides slightly 

 oblique and the inner the 

 longer, apically contracted 

 to a rounded point ; all 

 other arese wanting. Abdo- 

 men glabrous and nitidulous 

 to the transverse impression 

 of the second segment, 

 thence closely and distinctly 

 but not very strongly punc- 

 tate, the segments broader 

 than long and the apical 

 impressions on the second 



to fifth distinct, curved, and trans-striate ; basal segment hardly 

 one-fourth longer than broad, though longer than the next, with 

 two irregular transverse black marks ; second segment longer 

 than apically broad; third basally impressed, with a broad 

 and irregular transverse black band in the centre; fifth with 

 two broad transverse marks, and the seventh with a narrow 

 transverse basal band, black ; terebra one-seventh the length of 

 the body. Legs flavous, with a short black line at the base of the 

 hind tibiae, each of whose apices bears three pairs of bright red 

 spines. Wings hyaline and apically slightly clouded ; stigma and 

 nervures black ; areolet shortly petiolate, emitting the recurrent 

 nervure from its centre. 

 Length 7 millim. 

 SIKKIM. (BingTiam). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



Fig.'29. Xanthopimpla binghami, Cam. 



