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members of the Cryptic! genus Nemiteles, especially in the form- 

 ation of the areolar uervures ; the rugose abdomen, with its broad 

 and centrally spiraculate basal segment, however, renders a 

 position in the PIMPLIX.E more natural. 



144. Caenopimpla ruficollis, Cam. 



Caenopimpla rufaollis, Cameron,* Manch. Mem. 1900, p. 99 (tf ). 



c? . A small black species, with the thorax partly red, the 

 anterior legs testaceous and the wings bifasciate. Head immacu- 

 late black ; face and clypeus closely and rugosely punctate, with 

 short white pilosity ; clypeus apically rounded, depressed and 

 margined; mandibles piceous, with their centre, like the elongate 

 palpi, flavescent. Antenna; black and dense!}' clothed with short 

 stiff black pubescence ; scape brunneous. Thorax red, with its 

 sternum, mesopleura? below, and the metathorax black ; meso- 

 notum closely, and metathorax distinctly, punctate ; pro- and 

 meso-pleurae closely punctate and centrally strigose, with the latter 

 apically glabrous above ; metapleursB strongly rugose. Scutellum 

 red. Abdomen black, with the apices of the two basal segments, 

 and dense anal pilosity, white ; central petiolar carinse not 

 extending to apex, with the sides finely punctate; transverse 

 impression of fourth segment broader and more strongly sinuate 

 than that of the third; that of the fifth broad and sinuate. 

 Leys black, with the anterior, except at coxal base, testaceous ; 

 hind trochanters and base of tibiae white. Wings hyaline, with 

 an infuscate fascia extending across the disc from the base of the 

 basal nervure and a second, a little broader, across the disc from 

 near the base of the infuscate stigma. 



Length 5 millim. 



ASSART : Khasi Hills (Rothney). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



Genus GLYPTOPIMPLA, gen. nov. 



In order to define this genus it is only necessary to say that I 

 here erect it for the reception of insects agreeing in every way 

 with those of the genus Glypta, Grav.-, excepting in the possession 

 of the alar areolet, and, perhaps, but to a much lesser degree, 

 distinct mesouotal uotauli. JN'o satisfactory subdivision of the 

 genus Glypta, which could conscientiously be regarded as generic, 

 has yet been enunciated (with the possible exception of Cono- 

 Uasta and DiblastomorpJia, Forst., distinct solely in the possession 

 of one or two frontal horns respectively), and it seems hardly 

 desirable to expand a genus, one of whose principal features has 

 ever been the lack of an areolet, to include also the following 

 insect, which, discovered in a very little worked district, may be 

 shortly followed by many congeners ; for such an assembly would 

 render Gliipta, with its present 125 species, utterly unwieldy. 



