﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xliii. 
  (1899), 
  No. 
  3. 
  157 
  

  

  impunctate 
  ; 
  the 
  ventral 
  segments, 
  except 
  the 
  apical 
  one, 
  

   sulphur-yellow. 
  Sheaths 
  of 
  the 
  ovipositor 
  covered 
  thickly 
  

   with 
  pale, 
  somewhat 
  rufous, 
  hair. 
  

  

  B. 
  Head 
  and 
  fore-legs 
  ferruginous 
  ; 
  the 
  abdomen 
  and 
  hind- 
  

   legs 
  black 
  ; 
  wings 
  yellowish 
  hyaline. 
  

  

  PlMPLA 
  ARIANA, 
  Sp. 
  flOV. 
  

  

  Nigra; 
  capite, 
  scapo 
  antennarum, 
  thorace 
  pedibusque 
  

   anterior 
  ibus 
  ferrugineis 
  ; 
  alls 
  flavo-hyalinis, 
  apice 
  fuscis. 
  $ 
  . 
  

  

  Long. 
  17; 
  terebra 
  13 
  mm. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  scape 
  ferruginous, 
  thickly 
  covered 
  

   with 
  longish, 
  black 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  flagellum 
  covered 
  closely 
  

   with 
  a 
  minute, 
  almost 
  microscopic, 
  pile. 
  Face 
  and 
  clypeus 
  

   yellowish, 
  suffused 
  under 
  the 
  antennas 
  with 
  ferruginous; 
  

   smooth, 
  impunctate; 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  long, 
  fuscous 
  

   hair; 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  obliquely 
  depressed. 
  Man- 
  

   dibles 
  yellowish, 
  the 
  teeth 
  black; 
  the 
  base 
  shagreened 
  ; 
  

   the 
  apex 
  smooth 
  and 
  shining 
  ; 
  the 
  palpi 
  rufo-testaceous 
  ; 
  

   thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  longish, 
  pale 
  hair. 
  Thorax 
  shining, 
  

   impunctate; 
  the 
  pleurae 
  sparsely, 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  

   more 
  thickly, 
  covered 
  with 
  long, 
  white 
  hair. 
  Legs 
  thickly 
  

   covered 
  with 
  long, 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  four 
  anterior 
  entirely 
  

   rufo-ferruginous, 
  except 
  for 
  the 
  claws 
  ; 
  the 
  posterior 
  black, 
  

   the 
  apical 
  joints 
  of 
  the 
  tarsi 
  rufous 
  beneath. 
  Wings 
  

   flavo-hyaline, 
  obliquely 
  infuscated 
  from 
  near 
  the 
  discoidal 
  

   nervure 
  across 
  the 
  areolet 
  to 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  radial 
  

   nervure, 
  which 
  it 
  only 
  touches 
  at 
  the 
  apex. 
  The 
  costa 
  

   and 
  stigma 
  rufo-ferruginous; 
  the 
  areolet 
  oblique; 
  the 
  

   transverse 
  cubital 
  nervures 
  almost 
  unite 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  ; 
  the 
  

   recurrent 
  nervure 
  is 
  received 
  quite 
  near 
  to 
  the 
  second 
  

   transverse 
  cubital. 
  Abdomen 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  ventral 
  surface, 
  

   except 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  pale 
  dirty 
  testaceous; 
  the 
  petiole 
  

   smooth; 
  its 
  apex 
  broadly 
  raised, 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  raised 
  

  

  