20 



Cameron, Hymenoptera Orientalia. 



shining ; the lower part strongly transversely striolated ; 

 the mesopleurae at the top punctured, on the lower part 

 more closely punctured ; the central part impunctate and 

 with a few striations. Wings hyaline, the nervures 

 fuscous ; the cubitus a little narrowed at the top, being 

 there as wide as the space bounded by the second trans- 

 verse cubital and the recurrent nervures, which, as is also 

 the second transverse cubital, are widely bullated. Legs 

 rufo-testaceous ; the apex of the hinder femora and the 

 hinder tibiae and tarsi, black. Abdomen black; the petiole 

 rufous ; covered closely with short white hair ; closely 

 and strongly punctured ; petiole with the sides strongly 

 keeled ; the keels at the dilated apex being continued 

 slightly obliquely to the apex down the middle ; the 

 genital armature white. 



PIMPLIDES. 



PlMPLA PULCHRIMACULATA, Sp. 110V. 



Nigra, late flavo-maculata ; pedibus fulvis ; alts hyalinis, 

 apice violaceo-maculatis. $ . Long. 14 mm. 



Hob. Trincomali, Ceylon (Yerbury). 



Head smooth, shining ; yellow ; the ocellar region, a 

 band leading down from it to a broad transverse band 

 over the antennae, and the occiput broadly, black. 

 Antennae nearly as long as the body, black. Palpi 

 testaceous. Pronotum narrowly edged with yellow ; the 

 mesonotum black, with two lines in the middle running 

 from the base to the tegulae, becoming gradually narrower 

 as they do so ; the scutellum, except at the apex ; post- 

 scutellum and two broad curved lines on the sides of 

 the median segment ; the base of the propleurae, a large 

 mark on the mesopleurae much narrowed on the lower 

 side, the tubercles, a mark before the middle coxae, and 

 the metapleurae, except a black oblique line leading to 

 the spiracles, yellow. A broad black mark, narrowed 



