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centrally nitidulous ; propleurae strongly shagreened and finely 

 strigose towards their apices ; mesopleurae sharply carinate basally, 

 broadly and obliquely elevated centrally, closely punctate, basally 

 canaliculate and feebly punctate, with the upper part at the apex 

 glabrous and the lower finely and closely striate longitudinally, 

 the extreme apex glabrous behind the crenulation ; metapleurse 

 closely and longitudinally strigose, becoming stronger apically. 

 iScutellum flavous and slightly incised roundly at its apex, with 

 large scattered punctures on its basal slope, and strong rugose 

 ones on its oblique apical slope ; postscutellum basally oblique, 

 centrally nitidulous and obsoletely strigose, with its lateral 

 impressions broad, deep and obscurely creriulate. Abdomen black, 

 banded with white ; first segment strongly punctate basally, 

 distinctly aciculate laterally, with the following segments closely 

 and uniformly punctate ; petiole centrally and subdivergently 

 biplicate below at the base, and finely strigose transversely at the 

 apex; terebra 3 millim. in length. Legs: anterior pairs stra- 

 mineous, the base of the front cox, the intermediate coxae 

 and base of their trochanters, excepted ; hind legs black, with a 

 broad band before base of their tibia? stramineous. Wings uni- 

 formly f ulvescent-hyaline ; stigma and nervures piceous ; areolet 

 oblique, coalescent above, emitting recurrent nervure beyond its 

 centre ; radius apically reflexed ; nervellus intercepted at its 

 upper fourth. 



Length 15 millim. 



ASSAM : Khasi Hills (Rothney}. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Cameron is a little vague respecting the coloration of the wings 

 and legs ; the former he at first terms fusco-hyalinis, presumably 

 throughout, and later " hyaline, the basal half suffused with 

 fulvous," which is a strange combination; of the legs he says 

 pedibus anterioribus basique tibiarum postwar um late Jlavis, but 

 later " the hinder legs black, except the basal half " : nor are 

 colour details of the abdomen, which is wanting in the type, 

 indicated. 



141. Exeristes pulchrimaculata, Cam. 



Pimpla pulchrimaculata, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1897, p. 20 ( $ ). 



$ . Black and broadly flavous-marked. Head glabrous and 

 nitidulous, flavous, with the occiput broadly, the frons transversely 

 and a band connecting it with the concolorous ocellar region, 

 black ; palpi testaceous. Antennce immaculate and nearly as long 

 as the body. Thorax black ; pronotum with a narrow fiavous 

 border and the propleurae basally concolorous ; mesonotum with 

 two central and gradually dilated stripes, extending from the radices 

 to the anterior margin, flavous ; a large mark on the rnesopleurae, 

 constricted below, flavous ; mesosternum flavous before the inter- 

 mediate coxae ; metathorax laterally broadly and sinuately, and the 

 apophyses, flavous, with a centrally constricted discal black 



