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CEYLON: Pundaliinya (E. E. Green). 



Type in the United States National Museum. 



Ash mead thus shortly describes a sinele female, reared from an 

 unspecified spider at Pundaluova, in Ceylon; he adds that it is 

 type No. 3260 in the United States National Museum, which is a 

 necessary observation, considering the paucity of his description. 

 I have, however, seen a single female agreeing in every way with 

 such points as are indicated ; it was bred from a larva preying 

 -externally upon a spider in Ceylon by Mr. Green, who also sent 

 me the ver\ r slight cocoon of brown strands on a grass stem, 

 whence the imago emerged. It is a similar species, especially in 

 the remarkable distance at which the second recurrent is emitted 

 from the obsolete transverse submarginal nervure, to P. tuberosa, 

 Grrav., though much smaller, with the abdomen less linear, the 

 rterebra shorter and the legs paler. 



Genus CJENOPIMPLA, Cam. 



C<enopimpla, Cameron, Manch. Mem. 1900, p. 99. 



(?) Neopimpla, Ash mead, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1900, p. 56. 



GENOTYPE, C. rujicollis, Cam. 



Clypeus not discrete from face ; mandibles unidentate, with 

 the tooth acuminate and somewhat elongate. Notauli distinct 

 and deeplv impressed ; metathorax clearly and completely areated ; 

 areola longer than broad and laterally oblique at its base ; 

 spiracles small and circular ; metapleurae strongly rugose ; meso- 

 notum finely trans-strigose anteriorly. Scutellum slightly convex, 

 rugosely punctate, and apically constricted, with its side carinate. 

 Abdomen longitudinally striate, broadly and transversely im- 

 pressed, with the fifth segment centrally carinate; basal segment 

 laterally carinate above and below, centrally elevated and bicarinate, 

 with the spiracles exactly in the centre, subim punctate. Legs 

 normal, with the claws simple, the front tarsi basally incised, and 

 the hind trochanters and tibial bases white. Wings transversely 

 bifasciate ; external nervure of areolet wanting, the interior 

 short ; the internal cubital sharply and obliquely sloped before 

 areolet ; basal and apicnl absciss of radius oblique ; basal 

 nervure pellucid ; stigma large. 



Range. Assam ; ? Africa. 



" A distinct and somewhat isolated genus. It is easily known 

 by the absence of an areolet, by the parapsidal furrows, and by 

 the areolated metathorax. Its general coloration, form, and 

 spotted wings, give it the appearance of a Hemiteles " (Cameron, 

 7. c.). Neopimpla, as shortly diagnosed in Ashmead's table (I. c.), 

 appears to differ in nothing but its oval or elliptic metathoracic 

 spiracles; the terebra is shorter than the abdomen and the 

 areolet wanting ; the eyes are nude and internally hardly 

 emarginate ; it is recorded from Africa, but the species are not 

 -described. As remarked above, the type strongly resembles 



