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Pimpla sagrce, Voll., is recorded from "India" by Dalla Torre 

 (Cat. Hym. Hi, p. 448) ; but its author describes both sexes (Stett. 

 Ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 149) from Java only, and I have heard of no 

 subsequent records. 



98. Pimpla latisulcata, Cam. 



Pimpla latisulcata, Cameron, Zeits. Ilym.-Dip. 1908, p. 



tf . Black. Head glabrous and nitidulous, with only the face 

 and clypeus closely and strongly punctate, densely and somewhat 

 elongately infuscate-pilose. 'lliorax: pro- and mesothorax niti- 

 dulous, sparsely and obsoletely punctate ; metapleural carinae 

 strongly and closely punctate, densely white-pilose. Scutellum 

 black, more strongly punctate than the mesonotum, centrally 

 longitudinally silicate throughout and less broadly towards its 

 apex. Abdomen more than twice as long as the thorax, strongly 

 and rugosely punctate, most strongly on the basal segments, with 

 the basal segmental impressions crenulate ; apex of basal segment 

 with a short central line, and narrow lines at the apices of the 

 second to sixth, rufo-flavous. Legs : anterior pairs pale fulvous, 

 with their coxa) and trochanters navous ; hind legs red with the 

 tibia? darker below and paler above, and their tarsi black. Wings 

 hyaline and strongly iridescent, with the nervures and stigma 

 black ; areolet broad above, emitting the recurrent nervure from 

 its apical fourth; transverse median nervure pellucid. 



Length 12 milliin. 



SIKKIM (Binf/liam). 



The peculiar conformation of the scutellum should at once 

 distinguish this species, which I have not seen, from all the other 

 PIMPLIDES ; the pale-marked abdomen relates it somewhat to the 

 genus Exeristes, Forst. 



99. Pimpla bicarinata, Cam. 



Pimpla bicarinata, Cameron, Maiicli. Mem. 1899, p. 171 ($). 



5 . A black species with the abdomen and mouth brunneous, 

 the legs mainly navous and the wings hyaline. Head black ; face 

 sparsely punctate, with somewhat elongate infuscate pilosity ; 

 epistorna obtusely carinate ; clypeus, labrum and mandibles 

 brownish and nitidulous, with the teeth black ; palpi pale flavous ; 

 frons and vertex glabrous and nitidulous, the former but little 

 deplanate. Antennce black, with the scape thickly and elongately 

 white-pilose. Tliorax glabrous and nitidulous, immaculate black ; 

 mesonotum densely and elongately white-pilose ; metathorax 

 strongly and uniformly punctate, with the glabrous central area 

 straightly and distinctly carinate and apically divergent ; pro- and 

 meso-pleurae glabrous and nitidulous, sparsely and somewhat 



