174 PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA, iii., 



Ichneumonini. 



Probolus albocinctus Cam. 



"The Entomologist,"' 1906, 181. 



A female from Swansea, Tasmania (A. M. Lea), not differ- 

 ing from the type from Australia. 



Probolus varilineatus, sp.n. 



Black ; second abdominal segment red, as are also the third 

 ventral and the keel on the fovirth ; face except for a black 

 line in the centre, the top part narrowed, narrower above than 

 below, the lower part dilated into almost a square which pro- 

 jects into the clypeus, where it is rounded ; clypeal foveas, a 

 semicircular mai'k on apex of clypeus, a short line on inner 

 orbits opposite the antennse, an oblique mark in middle of 

 mandibles, sides and undersurface of antennal scape, tegulae, 

 a short line in front of them on the pronotum, tubercles, scu- 

 tellum, apical half of postscutellum, a large mark on either 

 side of apical slope of metanotum, longer than wide, slightly 

 narrowed below, slightly incised above and below, a semicircu- 

 lar, oblique mark on sides of apex of postpetiole, a short longi- 

 tudinal line on sides of second at apical fourth, a broad line 

 on apex of third, laterally dilated to the centre of the seg- 

 ment : a narrower line, slightly dilated laterally, on the 

 fourth, a line on outer third of the fifth, a slightly lirouder 

 one, of almost uniform thickness on the sixth, and a broad 

 mark, dilated backwards narrowly to the base, on the sides of 

 the sixth, whitish-yellow. Fo>ir front legs fulvous-yellow, 

 coxae and basal joint of trochanters black, apex of coxge later- 

 ally yellow, more broadly so on the outerside : hind legs red, 

 femora of a brighter red than the tibice, coxae, basal joint of 

 Trochanters, apical fourth of femora, apex of tibiae slightly 

 more broadly, apex of metatarsus, and the whole of the other 

 tarsal joints, black : coxae with a large yellow mark, obliquely 

 narrowed from apex to base in front : spurs testaceous. Wings 

 hvaline, stigma testaceous, costa and nervures black : trans- 



