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punctate beneath, the rnesopleurse not at all strigose, the scu- 

 tellum much more finely punctate throughout ; the hind legs 

 mainly black, with the coxae strongly and subconfiuently punctate ; 

 the areolet externally pellucid and the internal cubital nervure 

 less sinuate. 



106. Pimpla indra, Cam. 



Pimpla indra, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 179 (?). 



2 . Metallic blue-black, with the femora and anterior tibiae 

 ferruginous. " The face strongly punctured ; the clypeus with a 

 row of larger, deeper and longer punctures ; the front smooth, 

 broadly depressed ; the lower part quite smooth, the upper 

 obscurely transversely striated in the middle. Antennae black ; 

 the scape smooth, shining; the flagellum almost bare. Meso- 

 notum shining, having a faint plumbeous hue : the basal two- 

 thirds of the median segment [metathorax] strongly transversely 

 striated, most strongly so in the middle ; the apex in the middle 

 smooth, slightly raised in the middle; the sides obscurelv acicu- 

 lated : the base of the propleurae finely longitudinally striated ; 

 the lower two-thirds of the apical part rather strongly longi- 

 tudinally striated : mesopleurae coarsely punctured, the middle 

 smooth above ; the apex stoutly crenulated, the part over the 

 middle coxae coarsely striated : metapleurae coarsely rugosely 

 punctured; the apex more closely punctured than the base; the 

 basal depression smooth in the middle, the sides roughly punc- 

 tured. Scutellum at the base very shining, bearing only a few- 

 slight punctures ; its apex rugosely punctured : postscutellum 

 smooth, the depression at its sides wide, strongly longitudinally 

 striolated. The central depression on the petiole smooth ; the 

 sides and apex roughly aciculated ; the sides at the apex divided 

 by a flat, oblique, raised part ; in the centre above it is finely 

 transversely striated, intermixed with large punctures : terebra 

 5 mm. Legs black ; all the femora and the anterior tibiae ferru- 

 ginous ; the anterior tarsi fuscous. Wings fulvo-hyaline, stigma 

 and nervures black." 



c? . The hitherto undescribed d* differs only in having the clypeus 

 subglabrous and concave, the abdomen narrower and subcylinclrical, 

 the antennae stouter and less filiform, and the wings less strongly 

 fulvescent. 



Length 10-15 millim. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Rothney, type), Shillong, 6000 ft., v. & ix. 

 1903 (Rowland Turner}. 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species closely resembles P. arctica, but the face is more 

 strongly punctate and the metathorax distinctly trans-strigose. 

 Its author makes no mention of the very distinctive metallic blue 

 reflection of the abdomen ; it is certainly correctly ascribed to 

 the restricted genus Pimpla, allied to P. instigator, though more 

 slender, as I was enabled to note on examining the type 



