HEMTriMPL.Y. 189* 



Type. Location unknown. 



This, with the exception of the next one, is the only species of 

 its group with entirely pale body and thoracic pilosity ; the 

 abdomen is duller and more closely punctate, with its incisions 

 less deeply impressed and the intumescence of the wings more 

 sharply denned than in 0. rngosa and C. ariana, of which it 

 would at first sight appear to be little more than a xanthic 

 variety. The d 1 differs somewhat materially in having the radial 

 nervure distinctly more curved above the less petiolate areolet ; 

 this sex has not before been described. 



I was not acquainted with Cameron's description when drawing 

 up my account of this insect, but there can be no doubt that he 

 refers to the present species, upon which he remarks that the 

 temples are distinctly developed, roundly narrowed ; the central 

 part of the basal segment is broad, transverse and not roundly 

 narrowed as in his other species of this genus. 



129. Hemipimpla caffra, Sauss. 



Hemipimpla caffra, Saussure, Distant, Nat. Trans v. 1892, p. 227 ( $ ).. 

 Pimpla olynthia, Cameron, Manch. Mena. 1899, p. 156 (). 

 Enjthropimpla olynthia, Cameron, Tijds. Ent. 1907, p. 99. 



<$ $ . " Uniformly rufo-ferruginous. The face, palpi, orbits 

 and apices of the four anterior coxse, pale yellow. The orbits and 

 base of the mandibles and palpi yellow ; the apex of the mandi- 

 bles black. Scape of antennae rufo-ferruginous ; the base of the 

 nagellum dark rufous on the underside. The thorax is more 

 elongated and narrowed behind the tegulae than usual. Petiole 

 smooth, impunctate, the base oblique, the sides distinctly 

 margined ; the keel being continued to the centre of the apical 

 portion, on the outer side of the middle ; the space between 

 being depressed ; the second, third, and fourth segments are 

 closely punctured down the middle, and on the transverse 

 depressions ; the fifth is broadly depressed at the base and 

 more strongly and closely punctured ; the sixth is closely and 

 finely punctured; the apical almost impunctate; the ventral 

 segments, except the apical one, sulphur - yellow ; terebra 

 16 mm.; sheaths of the ovipositor covered thickly with pale, 

 somewhat rufous, hair. The coxae and femora are covered with 

 moderately long, white, the tibiae and tarsi very thickly with 

 shorter, more fulvous coloured, hairs ; the claws are black. 

 Wings yellowish hyaline ; the apices of both with oblique smoky 

 clouds, the costa, stigma and uervures yellowish ; the areolet 

 oblique ; the recurrent nervure is received in the apical fourth of 

 the cellule. 



"Length 18 mm." 



SIKKIM, iv-vi. 1900 (Bine/ham) ; ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Rothney) ; 

 BUBMA. : Moulmein (Archdeacon Clerk). TRANSVAAL : Pretoria 

 ( W. L. Distant, type). 



