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to the apex of the segment, its apical part being thicker 

 than the basal; before its middle, on the inner side, and 

 joined to it, is a short, oblique keel. Pleurae smooth and 

 shining, glabrous; the metapleurae with a curved keel 

 above and below; the tubercles are distinct. Legs stout; 

 the anterior olive-coloured, as are also the middle coxae; 

 the hinder knees are black, the tarsi are infuscated. 

 Wings hyaline, the stigma blackish, the nervures paler ; 

 the areolet is shortly appendiculated ; the recurrent nervure 

 is received in the middle. The first, third, and fifth 

 segments are broadly marked with black in or near the 

 middle, the mark on the fifth being interrupted ; the base 

 of the petiole largely depressed; the inner side of the 

 depression carinate, the keels being continued into the 

 apical part to near the end of the segment ; on the apical 

 third is a transverse row of deep punctures; the second 

 to fifth segments are closely punctured; the transverse 

 depressions are longitudinally striated. 



D. Black, the abdomen brownish-testaceous ; the legs 

 yellowish and fulvous. 



PiMPLA BICARINATA, Sp. nov. 



Nigra; abdomine oreque brunneis ; pedibus pallide 

 flavis, femoribus posticis fulvis; alls hyalinis, nervis 

 stigmateque nigris. ? . 



Long. 10 ; terebra 4 mm. 



Antennae black, the scape thickly covered with long, 

 white hair. The face is shining, bluntly carinate in the 

 middle (but not at the top and bottom), sparsely 

 punctured and covered with longish fuscous hair. Clypeus, 

 labrum and mandibles brownish, shining ; the mandibular 

 teeth black ; the palpi pale yellow ; the front and vertex 

 shining, impunctate; the former not much depressed. 



