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part of the propleurae behind strongly longitudinally- 

 striated; the mesopleurae obscurely punctured, covered 

 with longish, soft, white hair; the metapleurae coarsely 

 punctured, more closely and coarsely on the lower part. 

 All the coxae are black, and thickly covered with white 

 hair; the trochanters are black at the base; the hinder 

 tibiae and tarsi black, thickly covered with white hair; 

 near the base of the tibiae is a white band, which extends 

 to shortly beyond the middle; the calcaria are white. 

 Abdomen entirely black ; closely and coarsely punctured ; 

 the posterior segments with the puncturing weaker, and 

 densely covered with long, white pubescence. The trans- 

 verse cubital nervures nearly unite at the top ; the recurrent 

 nervure is received near the apical third of the cellule. 



PiMPLA LATIFOVEATA, Sp. nov. 



Nigra ; facie, tegiilis pedibiisque flavis ; femoribus 

 posticis rufis; abdomine rufomaculato ; alls hyalinis, stig- 

 mate fusco. $ . 



Long. 9 mm. 



Flagellum of antennae black, slightly brownish beneath 

 towards the apex, covered with a microscopic pile; the 

 scape yellow, black above ; and there is a narrow, black 

 line down the sides; sparsely covered with long, white 

 hair. The face, clypeus, palpi and the mandibles, except 

 at the base, yellow ; the face bearing large, scattered punc- 

 tures and sparsely covered with short fuscous hair ; the 

 front and vertex smooth and shining, the frontal depression 

 shallow. Thorax smooth and shining except the median 

 segment. The apex of the scutellum and the postscutellum 

 brownish; the median segment except in the middle, at 

 the base and the apex, covered with shallow, widely sepa- 

 rated punctures ; the middle at the base smooth, and 

 bordered laterally by narrow, slightly diverging keels. 



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