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head sub-buccate ; antennaB long and slender ; scutcllum subcon- 

 vex; metathorax truncate behind, lateral tubercles short, not 

 prominent, elevated lines sharp]}- defined ; legs slender; abdomen 

 narrow, subconvex ; gastrocoeli elongate, shallow. Length G 

 lines. 

 Mirador. 



53. Ichneumon parandus, n. sp. 



%. Head yellow, middle of vertex, and occiput, black; an- 

 tennae black, scape yellow beneath, and flagelhun with a fulvous 

 annulus about the middle; thorax 3'cllow ; middle of prothorax, 

 mesothorax, except two discal lines, generally abbreviated and 

 confluent behind; sutures of scutcllum and of metathorax, some- 

 times a spot on basal middle, spot beueatii posterior wings, and 

 two large spots on pleura beneath, between four anterior coxae, 

 black ; wings yellowish-hyaline, stigma fulvous ; legs yellow, 

 femora more or less fulvous, posterior coxae beneath and within, 

 their femora Avithin and generally irregularly so without, and api- 

 cal half of their til)ia}, black ; abdomen black, with apex of each 

 segment more or less broadly j-ellow ; venter yellow, marked with 

 black. Head sub-buccate ; scutcllum large and convex ; meta- 

 thorax truncate behind, without lateral tubercles ; abdomen ob- 

 long-ovate, densel}^ sculjotured; gastrocoeli obsolete. Length 6^ 

 lines. 



Orizaba; Cordova; Mirador. 



54. Ichneumon ahaculus, n. sp. 



%. Head and tliorax 3'ellow ; middle of vertex, occiput, an- 

 tenna? except scape beneatli, mesothorax except tAvo entire central 

 lines and a spot on each side over teguhv, lateral region of scu- 

 telhun, 1)asal and apical sutures of metathorax and a stripe down 

 the middle, a stain bcncatli wings and the pleura beneath and be- 

 tween the four anterior cox{\?, black ; wings 3-cllowish-hyaline, 

 ncrvures and stigma honej^-yellow ; legs yellow, four anterior 

 femora behind and jiosterior coxai beneath, fuscous; posterior 

 femora and apex of their tibia? black; abdomen above black, with 

 apex of all the segments yellow, the bands becoming gradually 

 narrower towards apex of abdomen. Form elongate, subrobust ; 

 head sul)-buccat(; ; scutcllum subconvex; metathorax rounded, 

 Mith sharply defined elevated lines and no lateral tubercles or 



