158 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



part depressed, with the sides raised ; the other segments 

 very coarsely and closely punctured ; the second smooth at 

 the base and the sides at the apex behind the depression, 

 except for a row of punctures in the middle, the row 

 bifurcating at the apex ; all the segments, except the last, 

 are equally widely depressed shortly beyond the middle; 

 the apical segments are smooth and quite without 

 punctures. The sheaths of the ovipositor densely and 

 shortly pilose. 



C Luteous species with black marks or lines on the thorax 

 and abdomen. 

 I. The abdomen with black transverse lines, besides the 

 black marks. 



a. The mesonotum for the greater part black, with two 



oblique yellow spots in the centre of the black part ; 

 the black marks on the third and fifth abdominal 

 segments curved. P. curvimaculata. 



b. The mesonotum luteous, with black marks ; the abdo- 



minal lines straight. 



The marks on the mesonotum small and forming almost 

 a continuous line ; wings fulvous, the apex not dis- 

 tinctly smoky, the stigma and nervures fuscous, the 

 depression on the petiole indistinct. 



P. appendicularis. 



The mesonotum in front with three large, black marks ; 

 wings hyaline, the apex distinctly smoky ; the stigma 

 and nervures black. P. apicipennis. 



PiMPLA CURVIMACULATA, Sp. nov. 

 Long. 15 mm. S. 



The flagellum of antennae black, brownish beneath ; 

 . the scape yellow, black above ; covered with longish, 

 fulvous hair. Head yellow ; the ocellar region black ; the 

 occiput above with a large, curved, fulvous mark ; the 

 mandibular teeth black, piceous at the base ; the face 

 strongly punctured, slightly dilated in the middle; sparsely 



