164 ICHXEUMONID^E. 



black, with the femora (except their extreme apices) red, and a 

 conspicuous more or less white or rufescent band before the base 

 of the tibiae ; Mud claws nigrescent, much longer than the pulvilli 

 and apically curved, of the $ not basally lobate. Wings some- 

 what infumate and ample ; stigma and radius black or piceous, 

 with the base and apex of the former pale ; radix and often the 

 tegulae of the <$ stramineous, of $ ferruginous and generally 

 white anteriorly ; areolet sessile or subsessile ; nervellus emitted 

 from the upper fourth of the strongly postfurcal first recurrent 

 .uervure of the lower wing. 



Length 4-10 millim. 



PUNJAB: Simla, ix. 1898 (Col. JVurse)- ASSAM: Shillong, 

 Khasi Hills, 6000 ft., iv. & v. 1903 (Rowland Turner) ; BUBMA : 

 Pashok, 4500 ft., iv.1900 (Col. C. T. Bingham) ; TEKASSEEIM 

 <(Doherty, Ind. Mus.). 



I have elsewhere (Ichneumonologia Britannica, iii, p. 101) 

 expressed considerable doubt respecting the specific value of 

 'P. examinator ; and I am now persuaded that it is synonymous 

 with the present species. This is of some importance here, since 

 the Indian form of this species, with the coxae black, which has 

 not hitherto been recorded outside the Palaearctic Kegion, is 

 referable to the former name. I can trace no difference between 

 the Oriental specimens and those found by myself abundantly in 

 Europe, where it is to be met with in woods and shady places 

 <luring the months of May and June, flying about bushes of oak, 

 Jiazel and birch, except that the c? (P- litigiosa, Cam. MS.) has the 

 whole of the anterior legs flavous ; the characteristic curve above 

 the nervellus is distinct. It has been bred in England, Germany 

 -and Austria from a very large variety of Lepidopterous hosts 

 between forty and fifty species ; as well as, it is said, from the 

 Coleopterous Anthonomus pomorum (cf. Elliott, Trans. Eut. Soc. 

 1907, p. 52) and the Hymenopterous Tenihredo instabilis. It is 

 ;also rarely found upon umbelliferous flowers in September ; and 

 ranges throughout Europe, extending at least into Northern 

 Africa. I have seen only two pairs from India. 



109. Pimpla himalayensis, Cam. 



Pimpla himalayensis, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 178 (c?). 



<f . A black species, with the legs flavous and the hind tibiae 

 black at both extremities. Head glabrous and nitidulous ; frons 

 roundly and broadly prominent in the centre, coarsely and sparsely 

 punctate above, where the pubescence is shorter than beloxv ; 

 clypeus obsoletely punctate basally ; mandibles nitidulous and 

 black ; palpi stramineous. Thorax with infuscate discal pilosity, 

 longer and paler on the metathorax ; latter strongly punctate, 

 -except centrally at the smooth base, becoming apically sub- 

 reticulate; areola apically obsolete and twice as long as broad 



