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Fig. 47- Exeristez flavipalpis, Cam. 



the scape flavous beneath and closely punctate. Thorax black r 



with a narrow line on the 

 pronotum, two elongate tn- 

 berculiform lateral marks on 

 the metathorax from its 

 centre to apex, and the apo- 

 physes, flavous; mesonotum 

 glabrous and nitidulous ; 

 metathorax closely and trans- 

 versely strigose, more finely 

 and closely at base and apex ;. 

 mesopleurae closely punctate, 

 apicaily rugulosely crenulate ; 

 metapleura? coarsely punctate 

 above, npically substrigose. 

 Scutellum and postscutellum 

 with flavous markings. Abdo- 

 men closely punctate, obso- 

 letely at base of petiole and 

 anus ; black, the apices of the three basal segments with a subtrian- 

 gular flavous mark ; the fourth with a laterally dilated band, and 

 the remainder with large lateral marks, flavous ; venter with broad 

 stramineous bands ; terebra 2 millim. in length. Legs red, with 

 the coxae and trochanters black and broadly flavous-marked ; hind 

 tibiae, tarsi and apices of their femora black, the first with a 

 stramineous band near the base. Wings hyaline and basallv sub- 

 infuscate ; stigma and nervures black ; areolet oblique and sub- 

 petiolate, emitting the recurrent nervure from its apical third. 

 Length 7-11 millim. 

 ASSAM : Ivhasi Hills (Rothney). 

 Types <$ $ in the British Museum. 



The anterior legs of the tf are paler, with the coxae entirely 

 flavous, and its white abdominal marks are laterally larger and 

 continued across the sides. The abdominal coloration and the 

 size are variable in both sexes. 



The position of the present species is a little obscure ; the types 

 were subsequently referred by their author to the genus 

 Chrysopimpla, but I am not persuaded that they are not better 

 placed in Itoplectis, Forst. 



139. Exeristes pulchella, sp. n. (Plate I, fig. 7.) 



$ . A pretty black and yellow species, with entirely pale legs. 

 Head strongly constricted behind eyes ; occiput nitidulous, very 

 finely and sparsely punctate and pubescent, finely bordered 

 posteriorly ; frons concave, with the scrobes ill-defined and not 

 large ; face flat, somewhat dull, sparsely punctate, with obsolete 

 pubescence, entirely white, with the epistoina alone brunneous ; 

 clypens very strongly and circularly separated, white, with the 

 apex emarginate, deeply impressed and rufesceut ; mandibles 



