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Scutellum flat, scarcely raised above the scutum, broader than long, sharply and obliquely 

 narrowed from the middle to the apex. Antennae of the male as long as the head, 

 thorax, and basal segment of the abdomen together ; thick, compressed and dilated 

 towards the apex, as in Joppa female. Abdomen long, narrow, of nearly equal 

 width from the second segment, the latter strongly longitudinally striated at 

 the base ; segments two and three with a longitudinal fold. Areolet Wangled, 

 triangular above. Apex of the clypeus rounded in the male. 



128. Ichneumon maculosus. (Tab. VIII. fig. 6.) 



Joppa maculosa, F. Smith, Descr. of New Species of Hymen, p. 233 (1879) \ 



Bab. Guatemala, San Geronimo (Champion) ; Costa Kica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 feet 1 



(H. Sogers). 



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Scutellum conical, the apex obtuse. £*-* ■ 'f*** . \ 1 ^ 5 H / ; i y 5 



129. Ichneumon montezuma. 



Ichneumon montezuma, Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 13 ((?) 1 ; Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 127, 



no. 72. 



Hab. Mexico, Cordova x (Sumichrast). 



130. Ichneumon exquisitus. (Tab. VII. fig. 25.) 



Ichneumon exquisitus, Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 12 ( $ ? ) x ; Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873 r 

 p. 127. no. 73. 



Hab. Mexico, Orizaba, Cordova 1 (Sumichrast); Guatemala, San Geronimo 

 (Champion). 



131. Ichneumon piliventris. (Tab. VIII. fig. 19.) 



Mavo-testaceus ; antennis (scapo subtus excepto), linea media metanoti, geniculis posticis, tarsis posticis abdo- 



minisque segmentis basi, nigris ; alis hyalinis, apice fumatis, nervis et stigmate nigris. c? . 

 Long. 15 millim. 



Hab. Guatemala, San Geronimo (Champion). 



Face smooth, shining, impunctate, pale yellow, projecting, bluntly keeled in the middle ; 

 clypeal foveas large and deep ; front deeply excavated above the antennae, smooth and 

 shining ; vertex aciculated, obscure fulvous in the centre, punctured, the sides shining and 

 impunctate. Thorax punctured, covered with a black pubescence, which is longest on 

 the scutellum ; the sutures black ; a black mark in the middle of the pronotum, and 

 two obscure blackish lines in front of the mesonotum, the latter almost obsolete. Scu- 

 tellum elevated, a little broader than long, the sides and apex (especially the latter) 

 almost perpendicular, the sides above obscurely margined ; scutellar fovea at the base 

 black, the deep lateral keels acute. Metathorax with two broad tubercles at the sides, 



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