1IEMIP1MPLA. 



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Fig. 44. Hemipimpla rugosa, de Gr. 



distinct sparse and fine punctation ; spiracles small, oval and 

 directed towards the apex. Scutellum glabrous and not very 

 convex, with a few erect dark hairs. Abdomen fusiform- 

 cylindrical and broadest centrally, entirely dull black or some- 

 times with a cyaneous reflection, strongly punctate throughout, 



with the apical angles of the 

 segments prominent ; basal 

 segment not longer than 

 apically broad, a little nar- 

 rowed basally, centrally ele- 

 vated and laterally scabricu- 

 lous ; the five following 

 segments deeply incised trans- 

 versely at their apical third, 

 the incision becoming laterally 

 confluent with another which 

 rises obliquely from the de- 

 pressed base ; anus smoother 

 and shining ; venter with the 

 four basal segments plicate ; 

 terebra black, of the same 

 length as the abdomen, with 

 the valvulse slender, pilose, 

 and the spicula castaneous. 



Legs short and somewhat stout, red, with the hind pair 

 entirely and more or less of the intermediate coxae black ; 

 claws small and strongly lobate ; front femora and tibia? simple, 

 their calcaria curved. Wings not broad, strongly iui'umate 

 throughout ; radix and tegulae red ; stigma black and costa con- 

 colorous, becoming rufescent at its base ; areolet somewhat oblique 

 and emitting the recurrent nervure from near its apex ; lower 

 wing with the first recurrent subopposite and emitting the ner- 

 vellus distinctly below its centre. 

 Length 17-18 rnillim. 



The c? is described as differing but slightly from the 5 in 

 having the vertex somewhat brunneous, the antennae of forty-two 

 joints, the abdomen with no bluish reflection and the front legs 

 subflavescent. 



Lenytli 16 millim. 



" EAST INDIES " (teste Brulle). BORNEO. 



At first I had supposed the only $ I had seen of this species 

 to be no more than a melanic variety of the following, but in a 

 long series of the latter the nervellus is quite uniform in its 

 direction, and in the present species it is exactly as in H. testacea, 

 from which the black body and hind legs, more shining and deeply 

 incised abdomen, together with the entirely violaceo-infumate 

 wings, will instantly distinguish it. Tosquinet compares it with 

 Pimpla cor/nata, Tosq., and says its size is larger, the conformation 

 stouter, the colour different, the terebra double as long and the 



