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spiracles large and strongly elongate. Scutellum glabrous and 

 nitidulous, shallowly and isolatedly punctate, laterally strongly 

 and closely punctate ; postscutellum rugosely punctate. Abdomen 

 immaculate, closely and strongly punctate, with the segmental 

 apices glabrous and nitidulous ; first segment basally broadly 

 impressed, smooth and subimpunctate, becoming distinctly punc- 

 tate beyond the strong but short carinae; terebra 3-5 millim. 

 in length. Legs red, with all the coxae and hind trochanters, the 

 hind tarsi and apices of their tibiae broadly, black ; all the coxae, 

 tibiae and tarsi densely fulvo-pilose. Wings fulvo-hyaline, with 

 the nervures and stigma fulvous. 



Length 13-17 millim. 



UNITED PROVINCES : Mussoori (Rothney, type) ; MADRAS : 

 Utakamand (Ind. Mus.). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



This is certainly a good species, closely allied to P. instigator, 

 but instantly known by the narrower abdomen, 'more nitidulous and 

 strongly bicarinate basal segment, strongly fulvescent wings and 

 apically broadly black hind tibiae. Probably rare, since the only 

 specimen I have seen (which possesses entirely black hind femora, 

 not noted by Cameron) did not come to hand till 1910. 



104. Pimpla nepe, Cam. 



fimpla nepe, Cameron, Mauch. 3Iem. 1897, p. 23, pi. iii, fig. 4 ($). 



. A black species with the legs mainly red. " Head closely 

 and strongly punctured below the antennae ; the front widely 

 depressed, impunctate, shining; the palpi dirty testaceous. Pro- 

 and rnesonotum strongly and closely punctured, thickly covered 

 with short pale hair ; median segment [metathorax] with a gradu- 

 ally rounded slope from the base to the apex ; coarsely rugosely 

 punctured ; the centre broadly raised in the middle towards the 

 apex ; pleurae and sternum punctured. The scutellum thickly 

 punctured behind, more sparsely in front; the top with a pale 

 orange mark ; the postscutellum strongly longitudinally striolated. 

 The petiole with a deep impunctate excavation at the base ; the 

 other segments closely and somewhat strongly punctured, except 

 at the extreme apex ; terebra 4 millim. All the coxae and tro- 

 chauters are black ; the former on the lower side thickly covered 

 with fulvous hair; the hinder tarsi black, except at the extreme 

 apex. 



"Length 13 millim. 



" Almost identical in coloration with P. laothoe, but may be 

 known from it by the absence of the furrow on the front and of 

 the keels on the propleurse; by the scutellum being more closely 

 and strongly punctured and pale yellow in the centre." 



UNITED PROVINCES : Mussoori (JRothney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



The insect figured is undoubtedly a $ of the restricted genus 



