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there being a depression on either side. The remaining segments convex, punctured, 

 the punctuation becoming fainter, and the punctures wider apart as the blunt apex is 

 reached. Gastrocceli distinct, broad, deep ; extending upwards from the side at the 

 extreme base, then proceeding obliquely downwards to near the middle, then becoming 

 very shallow, and projecting upwards again as a wide shallow depression. At the base 

 of the third segment is an oblique depression, and there is also a shallower one at the 

 apex, extending from the side nearly to the centre above. The apical segment (the 

 eighth) is scarcely half the length of the seventh ; its sides incised ; cerci long, pilose. 

 Legs stout, but not very long ; posterior coxae with a hollow at their apices behind, the 

 sides of the hollow being margined. The anterior femora are scarcely testaceous 

 behind ; the tibiae and tarsi are more or less testaceous behind as well as in front ; the 

 middle tibiae incline to piceous, as do also the sides of the petiole at the apex. The 

 antennae are as long as the body. Areolet sharply triangular above. 



8. Ichneumon bellatulus. (Tab. VII. fig. 7.) 



Niger ; orbitis oculoram, facie (medio excepto), pronoti laterali, tegulis, scutello, postscutello, maculis 2 meta- 

 noti, abdominis segmentis 1° et 2° cingulo apice, tibiis anterioribus, posticis (apice excepto) tarsorumque 

 basi albis ; alis hyalinis, stigmate sordide testaceo, nervis nigro-fuscis. 3 . 



Long. 13 millim. 



Eab. Mexico (BilimeTc, 2 V)\ Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 5000 feet (Cham- 

 pion). 



Covered nearly all over with large (comparatively) clearly separated punctures, and 

 with a longish fuscous or griseous pubescence. The orbits of the eyes are broadly 

 white all round, but broadest in front ; the face below the antennae is white, except a 

 broad black line which runs from the antennae to the mouth ; there is also a small white 

 mark on the mandibles, which are punctured. The excavation above the antennae is, 

 as usual, smooth and shining; the front projects, especially immediately below the 

 antennae, the projection forming almost a blunt keel in the centre. The collar is 

 aciculated, and there is a broad white line on its middle, this line being broader than 

 the line along the side. Scutellum with a few large punctures above; the sides 

 obscurely keeled above ; laterally it has a gradual slope, which is striolated irregularly ; 

 the slope behind is smooth, shining, impunctate. Centre of metanotum at the base 

 almost impunctate ; areas obsolete, the sides covered with a long griseous pubescence ; 

 the white marks at the sides are longer than broad, rounded at the apex, the base 

 curved inwardly so that the sides project. Petiole at the base and middle smooth, 

 shining, impunctate ; apex covered with punctures. Gastrocceli transverse, the base 

 striolated, apex aciculated. The white band on the first abdominal segment is of nearly 

 equal length ; that on the second is nearly double the width of the first band at the sides ; 

 in the middle it is interrupted, and much contracted at the apex. The extreme apices of 

 all the segments are impunctate, shining, the rest punctured and covered with a black 

 pile. The legs are covered with a pale pubescence, which is especially long on the 



