] 60 ICIINETJMONIDJE. 



first segment not carinate, basally excavate, with its centre 

 strongly elevated and approximately bituberculate ; the four basal 

 segments scabriculously punctate, distinctly transversely im- 

 pressed before their uitidulous apices and obliquely in their basal 

 angles ; the remainder smooth and not impressed ; terebra hardly 

 half the length of the abdomen, with the valvulae shortly pilose. 

 Legs somewhat stout and subelongate ; red, with the coxa? and 

 trochanters, the hind femora entirely and the apex and the base 

 (narrowly) of their tibiae, black; hind tarsi entirely nigrescent, 

 with the claws stout, curved, distinctly a little longer than the 

 pulvilli and neither pectinate nor basally lobate. Wwys normal 

 and distinctly f ulvescent ; stigma and radix fulvous, with the 

 former almost paler basally ; tegulae red-spotted ; areolet sub- 

 sessile, somewhat transverse ; the internal cubital nervure sinuate, 

 with no nervelet; nervellus strongly postfurcal arid intercepted 

 far above the centre. 



Length 17 millim. 



MADRAS : Coonoor, Nilgiri Hills. 



Type in the British Museum. 



This female has the exact facies of P. instigator, but the frons 

 is not transversely aciculate and has no central impressed line ; 

 the face, which is more elevated laterally than centrally, is not 

 black-pilose ; the metathorax is strongly sirigose throughout, even 

 to the lateral carinse, which are obsolete ; the scutelluin is more 

 convex and less shining ; the basal segment is much more strongly 

 elevated, with the tubercles much closer to each other, and the 

 apices of the following segments are more distinctly transversely 

 impressed ; it is, however, most readily separated by the distinct 

 coloration of the hind legs, of which the tibiae are very much 

 longer in proportion. I have seen but a single specimen. 



111. Pimpla latifoveata, Cam. 



Pimpla latifoveata, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1899, p. 181 (c?)- 



d . A black species, with the head anteriorly and the legs 

 flavous, the scutelluin brunneous and the abdomen red-marked. 

 Head with the face and clypeus flavous, the former with large 

 sparse punctation and short infuscate pilosity ; frons and vertex 

 glabrous and nitidulous, the former subconcave ; mandibles (except 

 basally) and the palpi flavous. Antenna black, with the flagellum 

 sub-brunneous apically beneath, with obsolete pubescence ; scape 

 flavous beneath, with a narrow black lateral line and sparse 

 white pilosity. Thorax glabrous and nitidulous, black, with the 

 metathorax, except at the smooth base and its apex, shallowly 

 and isolatedly punctate ; areola laterally and subdivergently 

 carinate; pleurae shining and impunctate below, metapleurae 

 sparsely punctate above the lateral costae. Scutelluin apically, and 

 the postscutellum, brunneous. Abdomen black, with the venter 



