XANTHOPIMPLA. 135- 



smooth and shining ; the mesonotum and scutellum dull olive ;- 

 the former with three large, almost united, marks between the 

 tegulae, keeled down the sides and round the apex ; median seg- 

 ment [metathorax] with a gradually rounded slope, impunctate,, 

 glabrous ; at its base are two large arese, one on either side ; they 

 are broader than they tire long, and triangularly narrowed at the- 

 apex ; from its centre a curved keel runs to the apex of the seg- 

 ment, its apical part being thicker than the basal ; before its 

 middle, on the inner side, and joined to it, is a short, oblique keel ; 

 pleurae smooth and shining, glabrous ; the metapleurae with a 

 curved keel above and below ; the tubercles are distinct. The 

 scutellum, rounded from the base to the apex, not much raised 

 above the mesonotum, but its apex considerably so above thepost- 

 scutellum, which is depressed laterally at the base ; the lateral 

 depressions large. [Abdomen] : the lirst, third, and fifth segments- 

 are broadly marked with black in or near the middle, the mark on- 

 the fifth being interrupted ; the base of the petiole largely de- 

 pressed ; the inner side of the depression carinate, the keels being, 

 continued into the apical part to near the end of the segment ; on 

 the apical third is a transverse row of deep punctures ; the second 

 to fifth segments are closely punctured ; the transverse depressions- 

 are longitudinally striated ; terebra 1 mm. Legs stout ; the anterior 

 olive-coloured, as are also the middle coxae ; the hinder knees are 

 black, the tarsi are infuscated. Wings hyaline, the stigma blackish, 

 the nervures paler ; the areolet is shortly appeudiculated ; the 

 recurrent nervure is received in the middle. 



" Length 8 mm. 



" The colour of the abdomen and legs is doubtful, as the ferru- 

 ginous tint of the abdomen and legs may be caused by chemical 

 discoloration ; but structurally it is distinct from any of the yellow 

 species. The scutellum is more distinctly keeled at the apex than 

 in the yellow species, the apical and the lateral keels being 

 continuous." 



ASSA.M : Khasi Hills (Rotlmey}. 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



84. Xanthopimpla khasiana, Cam. 



Pimpla khasiana, Cameron,* Manch. Mem, 1899, p. 168 ( 2 ) 



2 . A fulvous species with black markings and the wings 

 apically infumate. " Head with the face thickly covered with 

 white hair ; the ocellar region and a wider mark, rounded above, 

 in the centre of the front, black ; face coarsely punctured ; the 

 sides stoutly keeled near the eyes ; the clypeus obscurely punctured ; 

 the depressed apex almost smooth ; mandibles obscurely punctured 

 at the base, covered with white, intermixed with fulvous, hair ; the 

 teeth black, piceous behind ; the palpi fulvous, covered with short 



