ICHNEUMON. 185 



flavis, macula coxarum posticarum, linea femorum posticorum dimidioque apicali tibiamm posticarum, 

 nigris ; alis hyalinis, stigmate nigro. $ . 

 Long. 13 millim. 



Hob. Guatemala, San Geronimo (Champion). 



Antennae a little longer than the body, dilated somewhat towards the apex. Head 

 buccated ; face with shallow punctures ; clypeal foveae deep ; vertex depressed between 

 the eyes. Thorax with shallow scattered punctures ; the base of the metanotum 

 impunctate, obscurely shagreened ; the rest and the pleurae transversely striated ; the 

 sides also punctured. The yellow line on the pronotum is broad ; the two lines on 

 the mesonotum more than double as long as wide. The scutellum yellow above 

 throughout, the projecting sides entirely black. The two marks on the metanotum 

 occupy the greater portion of the sides, and cover the spines, but they do not extend 

 on to the central area. On the mesopleura there is, beneath the fore wings, a large 

 yellow mark; below this again, but placed more in the rear, is a slightly smaller 

 mark ; there is a much smaller mark beneath the hind wings, and the greater part of the 

 metapleura is yellow. The metathoracic areae are all distinct ; the supramedian area a 

 little longer than broad, dilated towards the apex ; the spines large, stout, and sub- 

 acute at the apex. Petiole shining, bearing scattered punctures; postpetiole 

 impunctate, a longish moderately deep fovea in the centre above. Gastrocceli deep, 

 wider than long, aciculate, the sides striated. Abdomen not much longer than the 

 head and thorax together ; the base of the second segment longitudinally striated ; the 

 following segments closely and strongly punctured, the punctuation becoming weaker 

 until the apical segment is almost impunctate. Legs stout ; the hind coxae punctured, 

 black at the base and apex; the hind trochanters black beneath ; the hind femora black 

 except above ; the tibiae with the apical half black ; the tarsi incline to fulvous. The 

 scutellum, in the middle, rises nearly equally from the base and apex ; the sides project 

 above it into large stout teeth, which are blunt and a little bent at the end. Viewed 

 from the side the scutellum is somewhat triangular. Areolet 5-angled, the lower side 

 distinctly angled ; the lateral nervures converging above. 



148. Ichneumon fortispina. (Tab. VIII. fig. 24.) 



Niger, flavo-variegatus ; flagello antennarum aniralo, maculis 2 mesonoti, apice scutelli, maculis 2 metanoti, 



pedibus anterioribus tarsisque posticis, flavis. $ . , 

 Long. 8 millim. 



Hab. Guatemala, San Geronimo (Champion). 



Antennae nearly as long as the body, a little compressed before the apex ; the scape 

 white beneath. Head large, dilated behind the antennae ; face flattish ; yellow, except 

 behind; the centre of the vertex, and the orbits behind narrowly, black; in the 

 black behind and nearly touching the eyes above is a yellow mark. Thorax black ; a 

 short broad mark on the edge of the pronotum, two broad lines in front of the 



biol. CENTR.-AMER., Hymenopt., July 1885. 2 bb 



-p., 



V- 1 Ci 



