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65. Ichneumon democraticus. (Tab. VIII. fig. 10.) 



Niger ; sterno, pleuris, macula mesonoti scutelloque, flavis ; pedibus flavis, f emoribus tibiisque supra nigro- 



lineatis ; alis hyalinis, stigmate nigro, medio testaceo. $ . 

 Long. 16-17 millim. 



Eab. Guatemala, San Geronimo (Champion). 



Head and thorax punctured. Metanotum transversely, the collar obliquely, striated ; 

 the pleurae more strongly punctured than the upper part of the thorax, and covered 

 with fuscous or fuscous-black pubescence. Antennae semi-involute, as long as the 

 abdomen and the metathorax together; a little thickened and compressed beyond 

 the middle. The head is black in the centre above the antennae, and entirely so 

 behind ; with a broad transverse furrow below the lower ocellus. The pronotum is 

 broadly black in the centre ; there is a longitudinal black mark below the tubercle 

 under the tegulae, and from it one of nearly equal length runs along the hollow in the 

 mesopleura. The mesonotum is black save an indented mark on either side in front, a 

 transverse mark (narrower in front and behind) in the centre, and two small marks 

 in front of the scutellum. The scutellum and postscutellum are yellow ; the former 

 is longer than broad, narrower in the centre and at the apex, and slightly raised in 

 the centre. The suture separating the meso- from the metanotum is black ; on either 

 side of the latter two large marks, double as long as wide, and bulging out in the 

 middle, run from this suture to a little beyond the middle, and an oblique, narrower 

 line runs from its basal third ; at the extreme apex in the middle is a small triangular 

 black mark. The metathorax has a gradual slope and has neither areae nor tubercles. 

 Petiole black beneath, yellow above ; postpetiole black, strongly punctured. Abdomen 

 strongly, longitudinally punctured; segments 2-5 with a broad black band, mostly 

 narrowed at the base or apex ; longer than the head and thorax together ; the apex 

 acute ; the sheath of the ovipositor black, projecting. Gastrocoeli shallow. On the 

 four anterior femora, tibiae, and tarsi there is a black line on the upper side, and 

 broader one on the posterior femora and tibiae and on the base of the tarsi. There 

 is a broad, somewhat irregular mark in the centre of the posterior coxae, this line-like 

 mark being continued on to the basal part of the trochanter. 



66. Ichneumon valladolidensis. (Tab. VIII. fig. 9.) 



Niger; linea pronoti, pleuris pro majore parte, maculisque 2 magnis metanoti flavis ; pedibus fulvo-flavis, 



apice femorum et tibiarum posticarum nigro. $ . 

 Long. 13 millim. 



Eab. Mexico, Valladolid in Yucatan (Gaumer). 



Antennae involute, thick. Head behind and the vertex broadly black ; broad, 

 punctured, shining ; clypeal foveae deep ; clypeus with a small incision in the centre at 

 the apex. Thorax punctured, but not deeply or closely. The edge of the pronotum 

 broadly, the tegulae, a large mark on the meso- and a smaller one on the metapleurae, 

 the scutellum, and the sides of the metanotum broadly, yellow. Scutellum broad, flat, 



