EPIUKUS, 175 



sparsely on pleurae and sternum ; mesonotum with short erect 

 white pilosity and distinctly impressed notauli ; metathorax short 

 and abruptly declivous, with an apically obsolete triangular or 

 subquadrate areola, trans-strigose and laterally entire petiolar 

 area and quite circular spiracles, facing towards base. Sc.utellum 

 strongly deplanate, sbining black, with short erect pilosity and 

 sparse but deep punctures. Abdomen immaculate and centrally 

 somewhat dilated ; all the segments strongly and confluently 

 punctate, transversely subimpressed in the centre, with their 

 apices glabrous and elevated ; tubercles transverse and not strong; 

 basal segment hardly longer than half its apical breadth, with the 

 following distinctly transverse, especially towards the nitidulous 

 anus ; venter black, with the three basal segments centrally 

 plicate ; terebra as long as thorax and abdomen, with the valvulae 

 somewhat distinctly pilose and the apically incrassate spicula 

 ferruginous ; 3 valvulae strongly exserted. Legs bright fulvous 

 throughout, with only the extreme base of the posterior tibiae 

 Havescent and the anterior coxae black ; d* with hind coxoe also 

 mainlv nigrescent ; all the tarsal claws piceous and in $ strongly 

 lobate basally. Wings normal and hyaline ; radix, tegula?, a small 

 callosity before the latter, the base and apex of the stigma, and 

 the front margin of the costa, clear stramineous ; inner margin of 

 costa and most of stigma ferruginous ; areolet broadly triangular, 

 emitting the recurrent nervure only slightly before apex ; nervelet 

 of internal cubital pellucid, brunneous and extending far beyond 

 centre of the cell ; nervellus intercepting the only slightly post- 

 furcal first recurrent of lower wing at its upper third. 



Lenqtli 12 millim. 



BALUCHISTAN : Quetta, v. 04 (Nurse) ; KASHMIB, 5000-6000 ft., 

 v. 01 (Nurse}. 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



Closely related to Pimpla robusta, Mori., but with the terebra 

 much longer and body stouter; the peculiar coloration of the alar 

 costa, short basal segment, and elongate nervelet render it very 

 distinct. P. punctata. Thorns., indigenous to the northern islands 

 of the Adriatic and Istria, appears to differ very little from 

 P. nursei ; but I do not know it. 



I have been enabled, through the kindness of Col. Nurse, to 

 draw the above description from the type specimen. Hater found 

 in his collection the hitherto unknown male, which he took in 

 Kashmir. 



118. Epiurus lineipes, sp. n. 



. Entirely black, with the legs red and the hind tibia? black- 

 lined. Head obsoletely punctate and strongly nitidulous, broad 

 but not buccate behind the entire eyes ; face hardly pubescent, the 

 epistoma longitudinally elevated ; clypeus very short and deeply 

 separated ; palpi testaceous. Antcnnce immaculate. Thorax strongly 

 nitidulous throughout, extremely obsoletely punctate ; mesonotum 



