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carinate. The keels continued down the apical part to 

 the raised middle of the apex ; the part between being 

 depressed, broadly at the base, narrowly at the apex ; the 

 second segment black at the base, the black bifurcating to 

 the furrow at the sides ; there is a broad, continuous, 

 transverse line on the centre of the third, a line about 

 three times as long as it is broad on the sides of the 

 fourth, a continuous line on the fifth, a short mark in the 

 centre on either side of the sixth, and an almost complete 

 one across the seventh segment, black ; the sheaths of the 

 ovipositor black. 



PiMPLA APICIPENNIS, Sp. nov. 



Fulva ; thorace abdomineque late nigromaciUatis ; alls 

 hyalinis, apicefmnatis, stigmate nervisque nigris. $ . 



Long. 13 ; terebra 2 mm. 



Antennae as long as the body, the scape yellow, largely 

 marked with black above ; sparsely covered with white 

 hair ; the flagellum brownish at the base. Face closely 

 punctured, thickly covered with short, pale hair ; the 

 clypeus not quite so strongly punctured ; its depressed 

 apex punctured like the base. The mandibles coloured 

 like the face, with the teeth black ; the palpi similarly 

 coloured and covered with long, white hair. The ocelli 

 are in a black patch, the black extending beyond them all 

 round. The middle lobe of the mesonotum bearing large 

 punctures ; between the tegular are three large, black, 

 marks ; the central almost square, the lateral dilated 

 in the middle on the outer side into a point half its length. 

 Scutellum pyramidal ; more obliquely depressed at the 

 base than at the apex, where the slope is longer ; thickly 

 covered with long, pale hair ; the sides stoutly keeled, the 

 keels not leaf-like. On the base of the median segment 

 is a black band, which extends to the lateral basal keels ; 



