PIMPLA. 163 



The remarkable metallic coloration of this beautiful species 

 exceeds that of the most pronounced forms of P. indra, from 

 which the colour of the femora will instantly distinguish it. 

 I know no other metallic Indian species in the genus. 



108. Pimpla turionellae, L. 



Ichneumon turionella, L., Faun. Suec. 1761, p. 404. 



Cryptm turionella, F., Syst. Piez. 1804, p. 87. 



Pimpla turionellte, Gravenhorst, Ickn. Eur. iii, p. 192 ; Thomson r 

 Opusc. Ent. viii, p. 747 ; Zetterstedt, Ins. Lapp. p. 367 ; Ratze- 

 burg, Ichn. Forst. i, p. 883 ; Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1860, 

 n. 10, p. -21 ; Taschenberg, Zeits. Ges. Nat. 1863, p. 53 ; 

 cf. Vollenhoven, Pinac. pi. ix, fig. 7 ( <$ $ ). 



Var. P. striyipleuris, Thomson, L c. ; id., op. cit. xiii, p. 1408 ; id. r 

 op. cit. xix, p. 2125 (<3 $). 



Var. P. flavicoxis, Thomson, op. cit. Tiii, p. 747 ; id., op. cit. xiii, 

 p.l408(c?$). 



Var. Ichneumon graminella, Schrank, Fauna Boica, II, ii, p. 301, 



$ (?) 



Cryptus examinator, F., op. cit. p. 85 ( $ ). 

 Pimpla examinator, Gravenhorst, op. cit. p. 207 ; et auctt. 

 Var. P. bilineata, Brulle, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym. iv, p. 98 ($); 



Lucas, Exp. Alg. iii, p. 323 ; Tosquinet, Ichn. Afr. p. 284 ( $ ). 

 ? Var. P. chelonice, Giraud, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1869, p. 149 



<$ 2 . A somewhat smooth, black species, with the legs partly 

 red and white and the coxae black. Head immaculate, rounded 

 behind the broadly and very slightly emarginate eyes ; face convex 

 and strongly punctate throughout; clypeus centrally depressed 

 and apically margined ; frons trans-aciculate ; palpi piceous, with 

 the three apical joints of the rf stramineous. Antenna; slender 

 and nearly as long as the body ; black throughout or apically 

 ferruginous beneath ; scape immaculate. Thorax of $ , and 

 sometimes of the tf , with a more or less obsolete flavidous line 

 before the radix ; mesonotum evenly punctate and shining, with 

 the notauli almost wanting ; metathorax transversely aciculate- 

 punctate, with no areae ; petiolar region glabrous and nitidulous, 

 spiracles ovate and longer than broad ; of cT with griseous pilosity. 

 Scutellum immaculate, subconvex, finely punctate throughout with 

 griseous pilosity. Abdomen closely and evenly punctate and some- 

 what dull ; of J subcyliudrical, longer and a little narrower than 

 the head and thorax ; of the 2 oblong-ovate, nearly double the 

 length of and as broad as the thorax ; first segment basally scrobi- 

 culate and bicarinate ; segments Avith all the apical margins niti- 

 dulous though hardly elevated and not laterally tuberculate, often 

 apically castaneous ; terebra setigerous, about half the length of 

 the abdomen. Z^sred or fulvous, with the coxae and trochanters 

 red or (in var. examinator) black ; anterior tibiae more or less 

 pale-banded before their base ; hind legs somewhat elongate, dull 



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