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impunctate ; the ventral segments, except the apical one, 

 sulphur-yellow. Sheaths of the ovipositor covered thickly 

 with pale, somewhat rufous, hair. 



B. Head and fore-legs ferruginous ; the abdomen and hind- 

 legs black ; wings yellowish hyaline. 



PiMPLA ARIANA, Sp. nov. 



Nigra; capite, scapo antennaruni, thorace pedibusque 

 anterioribus ferrugineis ; alis flavo-hyalinis,apice fuscis. $ . 



Long. 17.; terebra 13 mm. 



Antennae black ; the scape ferruginous, thickly covered 

 with longish, black hair ; the flagellum covered closely 

 with a minute, almost microscopic, pile. Face and clypeus 

 yellowish, suffused under the antennae with ferruginous; 

 smooth, impunctate; sparsely covered with long, fuscous 

 hair ; the apex of the clypeus obliquely depressed. Man- 

 dibles yellowish, the teeth black ; the base shagreened ; 

 the apex smooth and shining ; the palpi rufo-testaceous ; 

 thickly covered with longish, pale hair. Thorax shining, 

 impunctate; the pleurae sparsely, the median segment 

 more thickly, covered with long, white hair. Legs thickly 

 covered with long, white hair ; the four anterior entirely 

 rufo-ferruginous, except for the claws ; the posterior black, 

 the apical joints of the tarsi rufous beneath. Wings 

 ilavo-hyaline, obliquely infuscated from near the discoidal 

 nervure across the areolet to the apex of the radial 

 nervure, which it only touches at the apex. The costa 

 and stigma rufo-ferruginous; the areolet oblique; the 

 transverse cubital nervures almost unite at the top ; the 

 recurrent nervure is received quite near to the second 

 transverse cubital. Abdomen black; the ventral surface, 

 except at the apex, pale dirty testaceous; the petiole 

 smooth; its apex broadly raised, the base of the raised 



