ICHNEUMON. 183 



punctured. Gastrocoeli large, moderately deep, aciculated, as long as broad. Abdomen 

 with the middle of the second segment obscurely carinated on the back, the sides above 

 a little depressed in the centre ; the segments coarsely punctured ; a small black mark 

 at the extreme base of the petiole ; the black mark on the second segment is produced 

 to a point at the apex, that on the next two segments of nearly equal width throughout, 

 on the fifth and sixth narrower at the side. Areolet sharply triangular above ; the stigma 

 obscurely fuscous in the centre. 



142. Ichneumon tragicus. 



Ichneumon tragicus, Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. II 1 {$) ; Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 128. 

 no. 81. 



Hah. Mexico, Cordova 1 (Sumichrast). 

 — 143. Ichneumon lenis. 



Ichneumon lenis, Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 19 x ( ? ) ; Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 128. 

 no. 82. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba, Cordova 1 (Sumichrast). 



144. Ichneumon infulatus. 



Ichneumon infulatus, Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 12 * ( ? ) ; Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 128. 

 no. 83. 



Hah. Mexico, Cordova x (Sumichrast). 



Scutellum much elevated, depressed in the centre at the apex or bi&pinose. 



145. Ichneumon abnormis. 



Hoplismenus abnormis, Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 26 1 ( ? ). 

 Ichneumon abnormis, Cresson, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1873, p. 128. no. 84. 



Hah. Mexico, Cordova 1 (Sumichrast). 



146. Ichneumon orizabensis. (Tab. vili. fig. 21.) 



Flavus ; antennis nigris, albo annulato ; vertice, pronoto, mesonoto pro majore parte, macula mesopleurali, 

 maculis 2 metanoti, abdominis segmentis basi lsete, femoribus supra, tarsia tibiisque posticis, nigris ; 

 alis hyalinis, nervis nigris. $ . 



Long. 15 millim. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba (BilimeJc). 



Antennae nearly as long as the thorax and abdomen together ; dilated and compressed 

 slightly beyond the middle, the apex much thinner; the sixth to the twelfth joints clear 

 white; the third joint a little longer than the fourth. The hollow space above the antennae 

 is black, and the black proceeds up through the ocelli to the back of the head, which is, for 

 the greater part, black behind. The vertex is somewhat depressed ; below the ocelli there 



