1864.] 169 



segment broad, bilineated, finely aciculate ; basal foveas of the second 

 segment ()l)lique, not deep ; terminal margins of the segments with an 

 indistinct darker stain ; apical segments smooth and polished ; beneath 

 slightly tinged with yellowish ; ovipositor not exserted. Length 7 

 lines ; expanse of wings lOJ lines. 



^a/A— Virginia. Dr. Thos. B. Wilson. 



x\llied to Ich. seminige)', but differs by being larger and more elon- 

 gate, by the bicolored antennae, by the central area of the metathorax 

 being obsolete, and by the abdomen being entirely rufous. 



50. Ich. vicinus. n. sp. 



Dull rufous; antennae tricolored; scutellum yellowish-white; sutures of the 

 thorax and of the third and fourth segments of abdomen black; wings clear; 

 central area of metathorax rather large, elongate-quadrate. 



Femdlr. — Dull rufous, approaching brown, shining ; antennae about 

 half the length of the body, slightly involute, the 1st to 8th joints ru- 

 fous, the 9th to l-l:th white above, spotted with rufous beneath, apical 

 joints blackish. Thorax feebly punctured, the sutures of the pleura, 

 the surface beneath between the four anterior legs, and the spaces on 

 each side of scutellum, blackish; scutellum rather flat, polished, pale 

 yellow ; metathorax finely punctured, the elevated lines distinct, the 

 central area large, longitudinally quadrate. Wings almost hyaline ; 

 nervures fuscous, testaceous at base ; stigma pale fulvous ; areolet 5- 

 angular. Legs rufous, the basal third of the posterior femora and tips 

 of their tibiee black. Abdomen elongate, subovate ; basal segment 

 almost smooth, shining, bilineated, indistinctly aciculate; basal foveas 

 of the second segment oblique and scarcely impressed ; basal margin 

 of the third and fourth segments above narrowly black; apical seg- 

 ments smooth and polished ; ovipositor not exserted. Length 5 lines ; 

 expanse of wings 8 lines. 



Hah. — Illinois. Dr. Samuel Lewis. 



Resembles Ich. seminli/er, but not so robust, the thorax above and 

 beneath and the metathorax is rufous, not black, and the basal segment 

 of abdomen not so broad as in that species. 



."Jl. Ich. rutilus, n. sp. 



Pale rufous: antennae fuscous, with a broad whitish annulus ; incisures of 

 thorax blackish; scutellum white; wings subhyaline; central area of meta- 

 thorax large, subquadrate. 



Fcmiilr.— 'Pale rufous ; frontal orbits yellowish ; clypeus rather large, 



