PIMPLA. 165 



with its sides straightly and stoutly carinate ; propleurse smooth 

 and strongly nitidulous, deeply excavate below, with the apex 

 punctate above and the sides crenulate throughout ; mesopleurac 

 also shining and smooth, with the furrow near the base curved, 

 moderately wide and deep, and not reaching the tubercles, sub- 

 triangularly punctate at the tegulae, apically depressed below and 

 bordered by a narrow crenulated furrow ; metapleurae strongly 

 punctate above the lateral carinje and basally rugose, more weald v r 

 below it. Scutellum and *postscutellum glabrous and impunctate,. 

 with infuscate pilosity. Abdomen immaculate ; petiole rugosely 

 punctate throughout, basally impressed, laterally strongly carinate 

 to beyond the centre and strongly, with the following segments 

 closely, punctate, becoming gradually weaker towards the anus ; 

 venter black, with the basal segment plicate to shortly beyond its 

 centre, apically smooth, laterally impressed and aciculate above, 

 with the lower part finely sti-igose and its outer edge longitudinally 

 striated. Leys with all the coxse and femora fulvescent ; anterior 

 tibiae and tarsi flavous ; hind tibiae black, with the centre broadly 

 white and the tarsi nigrescent. Wings hyaline, with the stigma 

 and nervures black ; areolet laterally coalesced above, emitting the- 

 recurrent nervure at its apical third. 



Length 12 millim. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Rotlmey). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



110. Pimpla apollyon, sp. n. 



2 ' A large black species, with the anterior femora and tibiae- 

 red. Head transverse, somewhat short and strongly narrowed 

 behind the eyes ; frons concave and subexcavate, not transversely 

 aciculate and with no longitudinal sulcus ; clypeus basally elevated,, 

 strongly depressed towards the glabrous and subtruucate apex : 

 eyes oblong-ovate and slightly emarginate next the scrobes ; face 

 strongly and evenly punctate, with elongate griseous pilosity, 

 centrally hai'dly but laterally distinctly convex, with the epistoma 

 obsoletely glabrous ; mandibles stout and basally coarsely punc- 

 tate, margined below ; palpi with the three apical joints fulvous. 

 Antenna) (broken) slender and filiform, with the basal flagellar 

 joints apically subnodulose and the first nearly half as long again 

 as the second ; fiagellum not ferruginous beneath, scape finely 

 punctate. Thorax stout, gibbous, immaculate ; meson olurn and 

 mesosternum evenly punctate and a little nitidulous, with obsolete 

 notauli ; mesopleurae strongly punctate and posteriorly sub- 

 strigose ; metathorax subdeplanate and very strongly trans- 

 aciculate throughout, with only the undefined petiolar area 

 smoother ; all the areas wanting, lateral carinae effaced by trans- 

 striatiou, spiracles elongate-oblong. Scutellum subelevated and 

 black, not shining, with scanty pilosity. Abdomen black, oblong- 

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



