PIMPLA. 1ST 



stramineous, of 5 with the three apical joints fulvous. Antennce 

 a little shorter than the body ; of $ very slender, filiform through- 

 out with the basal flagellar joints apically subnodulose and the first 

 nearly half as long again as the second ; of $ stouter, apically sub- 

 attenuate, with the basal flagellar joints much shorter ; flagellum 

 sometimes dull ferruginous beneath, scape punctate. Thorax stout, 

 gibbous, immaculate; mesonotum and mesosternum evenly punctate 

 and nitidulous, with obsolete notauli ; mesopleurse strongly punctate 

 and posteriorly strigose; metathorax subdeplauate and scabrous, 

 with the area) wanting, lateral earinae stout and obtuse, aud spiracles 

 elongate-oblong. Scutdhim deplanate, shining, glabrous, with 

 sparse brown pilosity, black ; in both sexes rarely more or less 

 apically flavous. Abdomen black, of d" subcylindrical, of $ oblong- 

 ovate, longer and hardly narrower than the head and thorax ; 

 first segment not carinate, basally excavate, centrally bituberculate 

 in 2 5 and apically subelevated ; the four basal segments scabricu- 

 lously punctate, with a subobsolete transversely impressed line 

 and a small oblique basal impresskm on either side, apically shining 

 and slightly elevated ; the remainder smooth with no impressions ;. 

 terebra hardly half the length of the abdomen, with the valvulao 

 shortly pilose. Legs somewhat stout but not short, red or fulvous : 

 coxae and trochanters black, with the latter sometimes apically 

 red ; hind tarsi except rarely basally, black ; claws stout, curved, 

 ferruginous, distinctly a little longer than the pulvilli, neither 

 pectinate nor in $ lobate basally. Winr/s normal, sometimes more 

 or less infumate ; stigma and radix black, piceous or ferruginous, 

 with the former always distinctly paler basally; tegulae black, 

 usually white-marked and in <S- often entirely pale stramineous ; 

 areolet subsessile, somewhat transverse ; the internal cubital 

 sinuate, with no nervelet ; nervellus strongly postfurcal and 

 intercepting far above the centre. 



Length 10-20 mi Him. 



PUNJAB: Simla, 7000 ft., x. 07 (Pusa coll.), v. 97 and viii. 98 

 (Col. Nurse) ; SIKKIM, 4000 ft., iv. 94 (Col. Binyham)-, BENGAL : 

 Pusa, iv. 07 (B. Sinyh) ; ASSAM : Shillong, v. 03 (Rowland 

 Turner}, Khasi Hills (IF. F. Badyley, and Ind. Mus.); MADRAS : 

 Bangalore (Ind. Mus.) ; CEYLON : Pundaluoya (Binyham), Petti- 

 pola, xii. 07 (T. Bainbrlyye Fletcher). EUROPE. 



This is an unusually constant species, apparently varying in 

 nothing but size. The variety intermedia, is very distinct in its 

 constantly smaller size of about 9 millim., the frons less excavate, 

 with the vertex more closely punctate, metanotum basally sub- 

 canaliculate, apices of abdominal segments always more or less 

 rufescent, stigma hardly paler basally, and the eyes internallv 

 more deeply emarginate. It is very probably a good species, and 

 I have seen but one female referable to it from Kashmir, 

 5000-6000 ft., May (Col. Nurse). 



A very lucid account of the structure of this species, as illus- 

 trating that of the ICHNEUMON ID^SE in general, is given by 

 Westwood (Introd. Mod. Classif. ii, p. 137 ; ii, p. 140) and it is well- 

 figured by Van Vollenhoven (Pinac. pi. ix, fig. 1). The Oriental 



