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A mutilated specimen, without abdomen, in the Calcutta 

 Museum, differs from the type of this species only in having the 

 scutellar fovea also black ; it was taken by Annandale at Kulattu- 

 puzha, west base of Western Ghats, Travancore, 19th November, 

 1908. 



82. Xanthopimpla cera, Oam. 



Xanthopimpla cera, Cameron, Zeits. Hym.-Dip. 1908, p. 38 ( $ ). 



<J> . Flavous. Bead smooth and shining, with the ocellar region 

 triangularly black ; face and clypeus white-pilose. Thorax smooth 

 and shining ; mesonotum with a broad and laterally dilated line 

 between the tegulae; notauli slender and indicated only on the 

 apical slope ; metanotum laterally carinate, from the apex of its 

 upper third a carina runs obliquely to near the inner angle of the 

 basal lateral areffi, which are not quite entirely black, their inner 

 carina forming two oblique slopes, of which the inner is the shorter 

 and more rounded, being neither so straight nor so oblique. 

 Abdomen closely punctate from the base of the third segment and 

 more finely towards its apex, with an apical transverse impression 

 on segments two to six ; basal segment with two black and ex- 

 ternally dilated spots ; third with two broad, transverse black 

 marks ; fifth with two longer and narrower transverse marks ; 

 seventh with two yet narrower and subcoalescent ones ; terehra 

 1*5 millim., or slightly shorter than the hind tarsi. Legs with Ihe 

 apices of the hind femora black. Wings hyaline with nervures 

 and stigma black. 



Length 9 millim. 



SIKKIM (Bingham). 



Cameron tells us (/. c.) that " this species is closely related to 

 X. binghami ; it is larger, has all the marks on the abdomen 

 separated, those on the first segment are distinctly narrowed on 

 the inner side, not dilated there ; the inner keel of the lateral 

 areae forms a broad, rounded curve, without angle, it being also 

 wider compared with the width [sic], and there is an area, open on 

 the inner side, which does not exist in X. binghami" How far 

 these points will prove constant one does not yet know. The 

 species is unknown to me. 



83. Xanthopimpla honorata, Cam. 



Pimpla honorata, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 170 ( <j>). 



$ . " Head smooth, shining, the face thickly covered with short 

 white hair ; the clypeal foveae deep, large ; the mandibles black ; 

 the palpi pale dirty yellow. Antennae nearly as long as the body, 

 stout, not tapering much towards the apex, closely covered with 

 short pubescence, dull rufous, darker towards the apex. Thorax 



