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punctures weaker than on the upper part ; the base above 

 rugose ; bordered by a row of punctures. Wings 

 hyaline ; the stigma and nervures black ; the transverse 

 cubital nervures are united at the top of the areolet ; the 

 recurrent nervure is received in its apical third. The four 

 anterior legs are yellow ; the femora with a fulvous tinge ; 

 the hinder tibiae are white ; near their base is a narrow 

 black line, and there is one, twice its length, on the apex ; 

 the hinder femora and coxse are fulvous ; the tarsi 

 blackish. Petiole rugosely punctured throughout ; de- 

 pressed at the base 5 the sides to beyond the middle 

 stoutly keeled ; the other segments closely punctured ; 

 the basal strongly punctured ; the punctuation on the 

 others becomes gradually weaker. The basal ventral 

 segment is keeled to shortly beyond the middle ; the apex 

 smooth ; the depressed sides above aciculated, the lower 

 part finely obliquely striated ; the outer edge of the 

 segment is longitudinally striated ; the other ventral 

 segments black. 



PiMPLA INDRA, Sp. nov. 



Nigra ; femoribus tihiisque anticis rufis ; alis fulvo- 

 hyalinis, stigmate nervisque nigris. ? . 



Long. 1 5 ; terebra 5 mm. 



Antennae black ; the scape smooth, shining ; the 

 flagellum almost bare. The face strongly punctured ; the 

 clypeus with a row of larger, deeper and longer punctures ; 

 the front smooth ; broadly depressed ; the lower part 

 quite smooth, the upper obscurely transversely striated in 

 the middle. Mesonotum shining, having a faint plumbeous 

 hue. Scutellum at the base very shining, bearing only a 

 few slight punctures ; its apex rugosely punctured. Post- 

 scutellum smooth, the depression at its sides wide, 

 strongly longitudinally striolated. The basal two-thirds 



