1/8 Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



PiMPLA HIMALAYENSIS, Sp. nov. 



Nigra; pedibus flavis ; coxis femoribusque posticis rufis; 

 tibiis posticis nigris, medio late alb is ; tarsis posticis fuscis ; 

 alls hyalinis, stigmate nervisque nigris. $ . 



Long. 12 mm. 



Head shining, smooth; the front roundly and broadly 

 projecting in the middle, at the top bearing some rather 

 large punctures ; the sides and bottom almost impunctate; 

 sparsely covered with fuscous hair ; short above, much 

 longer below ; the base of the clypeus is minutely 

 punctured ; the palpi pale yellow ; mandibles shining, 

 smooth, black. Front and vertex shining, impunctate ; 

 the depression on the front is deep, and does not extend 

 backwards to the ocelli. The upper part of the thorax 

 thickly covered with fuscous hair ; the hair on the 

 scutellum longer, on the median segment still longer 

 and paler ; smooth, impunctate, as is also the post- 

 scutellum. Except in the centre at the base the median 

 segment is strongly punctured ; the punctures large, 

 deep ; the base smooth, the punctures in the middle 

 not so strong as on the apex, where they almost form 

 reticulations ; at the base in the middle is a smooth 

 area, twice as long as broad, the apex transverse ; the 

 sides bordered by a straight stout keel, interrupted in the 

 middle ; the apex is open, being bounded only by the 

 punctures. Propleurse smooth, and very shining, deeply 

 hollowed below ; the apex at the top punctured ; the 

 sides crenulated from top to bottom ; the mesopleurae 

 smooth and shining ; the furrow near the base curved, 

 moderately wide and deep, not reaching to the tubercles ; 

 at the tegulae strongly punctured, the punctured space 

 somewhat triangular ; the apex depressed below, and 

 bordered by a narrow crenulated furrow. Metapleurae 

 strongly punctured, the portion below the keel with the 



