138 ICHNEUMON 1D.E. 



the middle at the apex, black ; the sheaths of the ovipositor black. 

 Legs coloured like the thorax ; the femora with a more fulvous 

 tinge ; a mark on the upper side of the hinder femora near the 

 apex, the extreme base of the hinder tibiae, their apex narrowly, 

 all the claws and the apical joint of the hinder tarsi, black. Wings 

 hyaline, the areolet triangular above; the recurrent nervure is 

 received in the middle. 



"Length 15 millim. 



" Similar in coloration to P. lepclw, Cam. [P. pedator, F.], having 

 only six marks on the abdomen ; but that differs in having the 

 middle segments of the abdomen strongly and distinctly punctured ; 

 P. Tcliasiana comes near to it also, but is longer, has more marks on 

 the abdomen, has the central basal mark on the median segment 

 as long as broad, whereas in P. indubia it is distinctly wider than 

 it is long, and the alar nervures from the stigma are distinctly 

 fuscous." 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Rotlmey). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



80. Xanthopimpla polyspila, Cam. 



Xanthopimpla polyspila, Cameron, Tijds. Ent. 1907, p. 101 ($ ). 



$ . A luteous species, with black markings and the second seg- 

 ment spotted. Head with the face closely, distinctly, and uni- 

 formly punctate ; ocellar region with a triangular black patch from 

 the centre of the frons, continuous with a large central occipital 

 black mark. Antennas black, with the scape broadly flavous, and 

 the flagellum basally piceous, beneath. Thorax entirely smooth 

 and nitidulous ; mesonotuni with a central " wine-glass-shaped " 

 mark which is slightly incised in the centre of its base, basally 

 twice as long as broad, apically broad and occupying the scutellar 

 fovea ; metanotum with a transverse basal black mark which is 

 centrally constricted, not extending to the centre of the areola 

 and laterally extended to slightly beyond the external areae. 

 Areola large, hexagonal, and broader than long; basal external 

 areas clearly defined, quadrangular and externally dilated. Abdo- 

 men smooth and nitidulous, with the black markings thus : 

 first segment with two irregular subcentral marks, second to sixth 

 with two larger transverse ones of which those on the second and 

 sixth segments are smaller than the remainder, seventh with a 

 broad basal transverse line and two small central spots. Basal 

 segment more than half as long again as its apical breadth, re- 

 mainder transverse; incisions narrow and crenulate ; terebra 

 slightly longer than the hind tarsi or just one-third the length of 

 the body (3 millim.). Legs luteous ; intermediate tibiae with a 

 small basal black spot and a larger, more elongate one beyond their 

 centre ; hind legs with coxae broadly basally above, a broad oblique 

 subapical mark on the inner and a much smaller one on the outer 

 side of femora, base of tibiae narrowly, internal and external marks 

 beyond their centre, and the apices of tarsi, black. Wings hyaline, 



