BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 613 



Since the name Homaspis was proposed for this genus, it has 

 been ascertained from the 'Zoological Record,' 1888, recently to 

 hand, that Forster had previously employed the same for one of 

 his numerous divisions of Ichneumonidse (Verh. Ver. Rheinl., 

 XXV., p. 198, 1869) ; consequently this genus has to be re-named. 



474. Stenophragma picticornis, sp.n, (PI. xix., fig. 5). 



$. — Length of antennae 0-160 inch ... 4-06 millimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0-220 x 0-083 ... 5-58 x 2-09 



Size of body 0-240x0-040 ... 6-09x1-01 



Antennae slender, more than half the length of the entire body ; 

 joints of the scapus yellow ; flagellar joints 2 to 4 times as long 

 as broad, brown, broadly ringed with yellow in the middle, densely 

 covered with a very short greyish pubescence. Front and vertex 

 black or deep brown, with some golden-yellow hairs. Hypostoma 

 and palpi black or deep brown, the terminal joints of the latter 

 yellowish-brown. Thorax deep brown with a (sometimes in- 

 distinct) median testaceous or ochraceous stripe, and indistinct 

 lateral stripes ; densely covered with yellowish hairs ; borders 

 setiferous with black hairs ; pleurae, scutellum and metathorax 

 deep brown, sometimes with an indistinct yellowish spot above the 

 fore and intermediate coxge. Hal teres yellow, the club black. 

 Abdomen slender, deep brown, rather densely clothed with brown 

 or blackish hairs ; forceps yellowish, tinged with brown, densely 

 haired. Coxaj deep brown ; femora, tibiie and tarsi brownish- 

 yellow. Tibial spurs yellow. In the fore-legs the tarsi more than 

 twice the length of the tibiae ; the tibise and metatarsal joint of 

 equal length. Wings pellucid, with numerous pale brown cloudings, 

 darker brown over the marginal cell ; posterior basal cell clear 

 from its base to the base of the fifth longitudinal vein, where it 

 meets an irregular clear fascia which broadens as it reaches the 

 costa ; an irregular clear fascia across the apex of the wing, froni 

 immediately beyond the tip of the first longitudinal vein ; two or 

 three clear streaks behind the fifth longitudinal vein, in the 



