PIMPLA.. 155- 



superficial, mesonotal pubescence short and fulvous ; metathorax: 

 basally traus-aciculate, with no arese and only the lateral costse 

 traceable ; spiracles broadly ovate, apophyses wanting. Scutellum 

 and postscutellum. except apically, bright stramineous, deplanate,. 

 with infuscate pilosity but no border. Abdomen of <3 cylindrical 

 and parallel-sided, of $ elongate fusiform ; nitidulous and obso- 

 letely punctate, black, with the extreme apices of the four basal 

 segments indefinitely badious ; basal segment nearly twice as long 

 as apically broad, subglabrous, centrally elevated and shallowly 

 canaliculate to near its apex ; the following three subtransverse,. 

 with obsolete lateral tubercles and the apical ones becoming more 

 transverse ; venter black, valvulae not exserted ; terebra half the 

 length of the abdomen, spicula black. Legs slender and not short, 

 pale flavous, with only the coxaB an'd posterior trochaoters black ;. 

 tarsal claws slender, curved, not basally lobate nor extending: 

 beyond the pulvilli, with the apical half alone black. Wings- 

 ample, slightly and evenly flavescent throughout ; radix and 

 tegulae stramineous ; costa and stigma piceous, the latter internally 

 ferruginous ; areolet not small, oblique, sessile and emitting the 

 recurrent nervure from its apical third ; radius straight ; first 

 recurrent of lower wing strongly postfurcal, emitting the nervellus 

 from its upper third. 



Lenrjth 8-16 millim. 



CEYLON: Horton Plains, 6500 ft., v. 02 (Bingliam, type),. 

 Maskeliya, iii. 09 (F. BaMrigge Fletcher), Ohiya, 6000 ft., viii. 06,. 

 and Agrapatnas, xii. 09 (0. IS. Wickwarj, Namunakule, 6600 ft., 

 ii. 10 (E. E. Green). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species is closely allied to P. instigator, F., but the whole 

 sculpture is finer and much more strongly nitidulous ; the legs 

 are conspicuously paler, substramineous, with the hind tarsi con- 

 colorous, the wings are decidedly flavescent and the metathoracic 

 spiracles much broader. 



101. Pimpla taprofoanae, Cam. 



Pimpla taprolana, Cameron *, Manch. Mem. 1897, p. 21 ($) 



5 . Black with the legs flavous, the coxae and trochanters black,, 

 and the wings fulvo-hyaline. " Head closely punctured, covered 

 with a short white pubescence ; the face projecting, at top 

 forming almost a triangle ; clypeus forming a semicircle at^the top, 

 where it is obscurely punctured; the apex almost perpendicular; 

 the labrum piceous, fringed with long golden hair ; palpi and 

 mandibles entirely black. Pro- and meso-notum thickly covered 

 with fuscous hair ; obscurely shagreened ; pro- and meso-pleura? 

 shining, impunctate, thickly covered with short whitish pubescence, 

 and having a plumbeous tinge ; the median segment [metathorax] 

 broadly raised in the middle at the base; the centre raised;, 

 strongly, the sides finely transversely, striated ; the centre at the 



